Wellington Repertory Theatre

Dramatised by France Goodrich and Albert Hackett newly adapted by Wendy Kesselman

Directed by Tanya Piejus

A cast of 10 plus 3 teenagers

Auditions early May

Fleeing from Germany to Holland in 1933 to escape the Nazis, Anne Frank and her family, who were Jews, are forced into hiding when Holland itself is invaded by the Nazis. The play is set in the family’s hiding place, an attic above a factory which was their home for two years and which they shared with another Jewish family and a doctor. The play powerfully conveys the tensions and terrors of the period. The story is well known and the ending unhappy, but this script, which draws heavily on Anne’s diary, provokes discussion about the way human beings treat each other.

For further details contact Tanya Piejus, email:- teapea@paradise.net.nz

by Ken Duncum directed by Meg Cooksley
Cast of 4

Auditions early July
A modern drama linking two plays in the same motel three decades apart. 
Two generations, and the long shadow of a famous murder case.
A brother and a sister bring their mother's ashes to the motel.  It was her dying wish.  But why?  Is there a key here to past secrets? 

How is the mystery of that past mirrored in their own lives and relationships?
Then, thirty years earlier the parents have come to the motel.  He is a policeman, working on a controversial murder retrial.  She has her own ideas.  How do they deal with conflicting loyalties, trust and truth, and one another?
A passionate search for answers to the mysteries of the past and present......
For further details contact Meg Cooksley email:- mbcook@clear.net.nz

by Richard Curtis and Ben Elton directed by Ewen Coleman

Auditions early September

Being a true and japesome historie of Elizabethan England, regaling the tales of Edmund, Baldrick and Lord Percy, along with Queen Elizabeth I, Nursie, Melchett and 20 plus other characters.

This production will combine three episodes of the TV series:-

Belles – Everything is reasonably normal for Edmund, the bastard great-great-grandson of the repulsive original, and his dungball servant, and bird-brained dim-witted companion, till he meets Bob…

Money – Trouble is in store for Edmund when the baby-eating Bishop of Bath and Wells drops by unexpectedly and tries to shove a red-hot poker up places where a cotton bud would be kinder

Chains – Edmund is slightly inconvenienced when a fat-headed German chamber-pot boxes him up in a chestful of iron spikes and leaves him to play charades with a crazed Spanish interrogator.

For further details contact Ewen Coleman, home 394 1413, mobile 027 428 8491 or email – edcoleman@xtra.co.nz