2007 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 the shows we produced in 2007.
Arcadia
19 - 27 Oct 2007
Tom Stoppard’s award winning play of star-crossed love and the second law of thermodynamics directed by Tim Spite. In Arcadia mathematics suffuses everyday things - a leaf, a population of birds, clouds - with grandeur and magic. More...
Angels in America: Part 1 Millenium Approaches
29 Sep - 6 Oct 2007
New York in the conservative mid 1980s; a rollercoaster collision course for a former drag queen diagnosed with AIDS, his arm chair philosopher lover, a Valium addicted housewife, her gay Mormon husband an
d a heavenly host of Angels. More...
Toi Cabaret
9-14 Oct 2007
A light and delicious evening of fun where second year actors showcase an all singing all dancing spectacle of songs directed by Steven Ray and costumed by second year costumiers. Great entertainment that is punchy with panache! More...
Classic Cuts 2007
18-20 Oct 2007
This studio showing of scenes from Shakespeare is the first performance for Toi Whakaari’s first year actors. The snippets are sourced from the best of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama and are directed by professional directors. More...
Twelfth Night
22 Aug - 1 Sep
Twelfth Night or What You Will, Shakespeare’s classic comedy of mistaken identity, shipwreck, unrequited love and cross-gartered stockings with a dark underbelly of revenge will be performed in August by a cast of second year actors supported by design, tehnical, management and costume students. More...
Go Solo
6 - 19 Aug 2007
This year Go Solo has twenty two new New Zealand compositions by third year actors from Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School. As usual this year’s Solos are hugely varied, but overall they tend toward the macabre, surreal and outrageously funny. More...
A History of the American Film
15 - 23 June 2007
A History of the American Film follows the stories of 5 archetypal Hollywood characters (Loretta the good girl, Jimmy the tough guy, Bette the tough gal, Hank the good guy, and Eve the wisecracking friend) as their lives crash through American history and Hollywood films, always searching for the Holly(wood) Grail of mythical perfection. More...
Betty's Summer Vacation
14 - 22 June 2007
Stick a sex addict, an abusive mother, a blonde bimbo, an all-American sweetheart and a lonely guy who just might be a serial killer into a house together and it’s not always Big Brother. This is Betty’s Summer Vacation – a red hot parody of our addiction to reality television. More...
White Lie
27 Mar - 1 Apr 2007
White Lie is physical dance theatre devised and performed by second year acting students at Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School with assistance from performance design, entertainment technology, and performing arts management students. White Lie is choreographed and directed by freelance dancer, choreographer, and tutor Megan Adams. More...
