Theatre Visits
Proposed theatre visits for 2024
Peter Clemerson will be arranging visits in 2025, after many successful theatre outings in 2024.
If you are unable to email, please phone 938 5923.
Intended visits for the year below. If the deadline has closed, but you would like to go on a waiting list for a cancellation, please get in touch with Peter.
"The Heiress" at Stagecraft.
(Gryphon Theatre - 22 Ghuznee Street).
by Ruth and Augustus Goetz
Adapted from the 1880 novel Washington Square by Henry James.
Proposed date: Wednesday 25th June 6.30 pm $20 admission.
1840s Manhattan, New York. Catherine Sloper is the shy, awkward heiress to a vast fortune. She attracts the attention of Morris Townsend, a handsome, ambitious yet penniless young man. While Catherine's romantically inclined aunt promotes his advances, her father, a cynical, widowed physician, is convinced Morris’ motives are purely mercenary and threatens to disinherit her.
The deadline with Peter for "The Heiress" was 10th May.
The Sound Inside
By Adam Rapp
Circa 1. Proposed visit date: Wednesday 30th July 6.30 pm.
Indicative Cost $35.
Bella Baird is a brilliant Ivy League writing professor. Christopher is a talented yet mysterious student. Between real-life and literary fiction, an unusual friendship grows between lonely souls. Until Bella asks an unthinkable favour.
A gripping yet delicate new play that explores the limits of what one person can ask of another; beautiful in its writing and thrilling in its drama.
The Sound Inside has seared through Broadway, earning six Tony Award nominations, including Best Play. Now making its New Zealand premiere in 2025, starring Dulcie Smart — making her long-awaited return to Aotearoa. A cast of two.
The Cringeworthy Nineties
Written and devised by Andrea Sanders
Circa 1 proposed visit date:
Wednesday 3rd September
The 90s was a decade bursting with diverse musical genres, from boy bands and girl groups to MMMBop and hip hop, the swing revival (Mambo No. 5), country (Achy Breaky Heart), The Macarena and re-releases of iconic hits such as To Sir With Love, Silly Love Songs, Unchained Melody and Get Down on It (can you dig it??).
On the local scene, legends such as Crowded House, Dave Dobbyn, The Exponents, Margaret Urlich, Supergroove, True Bliss, Ardijah, South Side of Bombay and The Chills gave us heavenly pop hits that have become Kiwi classics. A cast of four.
A Ghost Story
By Danny Robins
Circa 1 Proposed visit date: Wednesday, 8th October, 6.30 pm.
Price Indication $35.
In a newly gentrified part of London, a couple are renovating. But something strange and frightening can be heard at the same time every night. Jenny has become convinced the house is haunted. Husband Sam isn’t having a bar of it. Tension builds throughout a housewarming dinner with friends as the clock ticks closer to 2:22... when the shocking truth will be revealed.
A Ghost Story premiered in London's West End in 2021, directed by Matthew Dunster – going on to win Best New Play at the 2022 WhatsOnStage Awards, and nominated for Best New Play at the Olivier Awards. Cast of not less than four.
Monument
By Emily Sheehan
Circa 2 Proposed date: Wednesday, 5th November. 6.30 pm.
Indicative Cost $35.
Edith Aldridge is the youngest woman to be elected leader of her country. In a lush presidential suite, she has just ninety minutes to get ready for the most monumental day of her life.
But things are not going to plan. Due to heavy fog, her team is stuck in another city. Enter Rosie, a twenty-two year old makeup artist from the David Jones counter, sent last minute to help Edith get camera ready.
From very different worlds, these two women, though face to face, do not see eye to eye in this provocative, slick and funny play that is ‘sparkling fresh and urgently of the now’. A cast of two.