2006 Productions
Toi Whakaari produces a wide variety of theatre shows and films every year. This is where you'll find reviews, images and information about shows from 2006.
Peer Gynt
Ibsen’s Peer Gynt is a vast, sprawling absurdist epic about an amoral everyman directed by John Bolton (one of Australasia’s most respected theatre practitioners) as Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School’s 2006 graduation production. More...
Classic Cuts 2006
This studio showing of scenes from Shakespeare and his contemporaries is the first performance for Toi Whakaari’s first year actors. More...
Toi Cabaret
The hugely successful Toi Cabaret returns this year full of androgynous raunchy fun, bringing the decadent traditions of the Weimar Republic to life in a Wellington nightclub. More...
Go Solo
28 - 26 August 2006
Go Solo is sixteen new New Zealand compositions by third year actors and fourth year designers at Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School. The monologues have been revisioned this year to keep them fresh and contemporary. The directors are Jade Eriksen and Christian Penny. More...
Henry 6
8 - 12 August 2006
50 years of treason, murder, conspiracy and war dark and bloody are the focus of Shakespeare’s Henry VI trilogy of plays. Director David O’Donnell has edited the life and death struggles of the aristocrats in the brutal Wars of the Roses into a three hour domestic epic. More...
Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America
6 - 10 June 2006
Steven Sewell’s controversial new indictment of US policy and culture is directed by Vanessa Byrnes. When all is passion, politics or paranoia – who should we believe?
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The Laramie Project
6 - 10 June 2006
Miranda Harcourt directs Moises Kaufman’s play chronicling the life of the town of Laramie in the year after the hate-crime murder of Matthew Shephard, a young gay man. More...
Chance
3 - 5 April 2006
Toi Whakaari third year design and second year acting students worked together to create five experimental site-specific improvised performances. Each was an exploration of unpredictability. More...
