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Ballet - CanadaROYAL WINNIPEG BALLET
GiselleClassic Ballet Meets the Supernatural Choreography – Peter Wright, after Jules Perrot, Jean Coralli and Marius Petipa Long considered one of the most beautiful and haunting of all classical ballets, thefull-length masterpiece Giselle returns after more than a decade’s absence. This timeless work will have a fresh face with elegant, lush new sets and costumes and RWB’s thrilling dance virtuosity. Set in the twilight spirit world of the Wilis, the German legend tells the story of a young peasant girl’s love for a nobleman and her ultimate betrayal at his hands. Giselle’s heartbreak and despair lead to her tragic demise, but she and the other jilted village girls seek their revenge from beyond the grave as irresistible spirits of a deathly dance.
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A Man and Some Womenwritten by Githa Soweby Richard Shannon longs to leave his business to take up a post as a scientific advisor in Brazil. But he feels duty-bound to remain and support his wife and two unmarried sisters. The Millionairess
written by Bernard Shaw The richest woman in England made just one promise to her father - to only marry a man who could turn £150 into £50,000 in six months. But she falls for an Egyptian doctor who made a promise to his mother - to only marry a woman who, beginning with 35 pence, can support herself for six months. Now what? Hedda Gabler
written by Henrik Ibsen An heroine. A victim. A villain. Hedda Gabler is all of these and more - a woman filled with a passion for life that cannot be satisfied by her marriage or her perfect home. As Hedda strives to find a way to fulfil her desires, an old flame from the past reappears - now her husband's academic rival. this connection cannot be resisted, but leads to events even she could not have predicted. Trouble in Tahiti
A musical look at the 50s American dream through a day in the life of Sam and Dinah. They seem the perfect couple = she's a happy homemaker taking care of Junior, he's a successful businessman off to another day at the office. but they both yearn for more in this jazzy treatment of love in the suburbs.
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Ragtime"It was the music of something beginning, an era exploding, a centuury spinning..." In this powerful musical potrait, an era ofinnovation and unrest is set to the rhythms of ragtime. A sweeping saga at turn=of-the-century America, seen through the eyes of three different families, based on nobvelist . L. Doctorow's kaleidoscopic fusion of suburban New Rochelle, Harlem and New York City's Lower East Side, with surprise appearances from the likes of Houdini, Emma Goldman and J. P. Morgan.
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Present Laughter
written by Noel Coward Dressing gowns, love affairs and witty repartee-glittering stage star Garry Essendine's life is full of them all. He's also got more visitors - and more admirers - than he knows what to do with. How can he stop a smitten ingénue, an intense young playwright and a married seductress from declaring their admiration? And as his not-quite-ex-wife reminds him, he's getting a bit old for all these romantic games. Can he escape from his fans in time? And does he want to? His Girl Friday
Tough-talking, wise-cracking reporter Hildy Johnson's had enough of the journalism game. But her former editor (and ex-husband) can't let his gal go. So he lures her back with the breaking story of the year - some poor dope lost his job, went berserk, and is waiting to swing, all because the mayor needs to be re-elected. A screwball comedy with a strong dash of politics and corruption. |
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Misalliancewritten by Bernard Shaw Oh Home! Parents! Family Duty! How I loath Them! How I'd Like To See them All blown To Bits! Hypatia is a bored heiress to an underwear fortune trappped in an unhappy engagement. But then a plane crashes into the conservatory, bringing a handsome man, a female daredevil and all kinds of new ideas to shake up the quiet weekend in the country. who will wind up with whom? And which alliance will be a hit - or a miss?
French Without Tearswritten by Terence Rattigan Is She Just Learning French Too? No, she Just Stops Us Fron Learning It. L'amour en Francais! In a villa on the west coast of France, young men - some aspiring to be diplomats, some just doing it to please their parents - come to work on their French language skills. But in between lessons, their main occupation is with girls. One girl in particular, Diana Lake, who has a lot of joire de vivre and can't seem to help making all the men dfall for her. Come Back, Little Shebawritten by William Inge Lola was a high school 'it; girl who had to marry youg. Twenty years later, she and doc don't have the life they had hoped for in their cluttered, Mid-western home, where an aura of disapointment and tension pervades. When they take in a pretty young woman as a boarder, their lives are forever changed as they must finally confront both their past and their future. |
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Studio TheatreHelen's Necklacewritten by Carole Fréchette Helen hs just lost her necklace. he plastic string of pearls is of little monetary value but great sentimental importance. On a sudden impulse she goes in search of it. Taken on a delirious journey by taxi through the streets of a Middle Eastern city carrying the scars of a recent ear, she comes to learn what loss truly meand. The Princess of Wales Theatre
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\Because they cannot hear sound, they need to pay more hardships for every program. Their performance are beautiful and breathtaking. Audiences will feel their clinging pursuit of dreams and are deeply moved! The program video as follows: They are a group of deaf-mute, and they have dreams. So, to our heart's content, they use their body to come true this dream, thereby arrive the colourful sound world
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BALLET2012 Program
The season opens on February 29 with NYC: New Young Classic. In this program of three short ballets from the Big Apple, one of New York's hottest young choreographers, Larry Kelgwin, will create a new work for the RNZB. Benjamin Millepied of Black Swan fame will present his 28 Variations on a Theme by Paganinni and Balanchine's classic ballet Who Cares? set to George Gershwin's popular songs will complete the New York inspired program.
The TOWER season of Cinderella sees the return of Christopher Hampson's acclaimed production , another chance for New Zealanders to enjoy kiwi designer Tracy Grant Lord's sumptuous costumes and sets against Prokofiev's rousing score. Opera
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2012 SeasonAladdin
A musical, magical and spectacular treat that keeps young and old entertained and laughing. Aladdin is perfect family fun "
The Motor Camp
written by Dave Armstrong & based on a story by Danny Mulheron. For a perfect summer treat enjoy the escapades of two couples and two teenagers who arrive at a motor camp and have to park their caravans next to each other. As both families try to enjoy their holiday and keep their hormonal teenagers apart, a hilarious series of events unfolds. Esencia del Flamenco
With special guests from Barcelona. Cristina Lopez Gomez (canta) & Paul Bosander (guitar) Esencia el Flamenco captures the essence of flamenco - haunting song, intense emotions and mesmeric rhythms. The opening choreography The Cry of Spain, depicting thne anguish of the Spanish Civil War, exemplifies these elements, while Paul and Cristina, performing together and with the company, build on the electrifying synergy between singer, musicians and dancers. Meeting Karpovsky
with Helen Moulder and Sir Jon Trimmer Sylvia used to travel the world and its famous ballet theatres. Now she spends time alone in her wisteria covered attic filled with her daughter's unwanted possessipons and photographs of her favourite ballet dancer, Alexander Karpovsky-she has seen him dance 127 times. One day the silent Karpovsky mysteriously appears and begins to teach the stumbling Sylvia to dance... and to live. PeninsulaWriitten by Gary Henderson Set within the moody landscape of its title, this engrossing beautifully crated play weaves a story in and around the everyday lives of a small town community on Banks Peninsula. Floral NotesWriten by Geraldine Brophy a fabulous new musical play starring all-time theatre favourites Geraldine Brophy and Kane Keller. Iris and Rosemary were pen pals when they were young girls. In their teenage years they lost touch.
A Shortcut to HappinessWritten by Roger Hall A fabulous new comedy about lives, loves and misadventures of a folk dancing class. A Shortcut to Happiness has all the usual Hall trademarks - shrewd observations, much mocking of Kiwis' curious customs and of course, plenty of laughs.
Chekov in Hellwritten by Dan Rebellato If Chekov were alive today...
All My Sonswritten by Arthur Miller Joe Keller is a thriving busienssman who reveres the twin American gods: family and profit. That, utimately, is his justification for allowing defective parts to be fitted to air force planes and letting his partner take the rap.
Sunset Roadwritten by Miria George Enuamanu Summer, 1975. Rotorua, New Zealand
Spector with THE BEATGIRLSDecvised, written and choreographed by Andrea Sanders. A musical tribute to one of pop's legendary producers.
West End Girlswritten by Barbara Tate and adapted for stage by Ken Duncum A true story - eye - opening, hilarios and moving - of love, life and sex. An innocent and lonely young woman finds a friend and the learning experiences of a lifetime when she takes a job as a prostitute's maid, and meets impossible, adorable, self-destructive Mae, the Queen of Soho. The Year of Magical Thinkingwritten by Joan Didion This happened on December 2003. that may seem a long while ago, buut it won't when it happens to you. IN this dramatic adaptation of her award-winning best selling memoir, Joan Didion ransforms the story of the sudden and unexpected loss of her husband and their only daughter into a stunning and powerful one woman play. Clybourne Parkwritten by Bruce Norris A very sharp, clever and wickedly funny study of modern manners, Clybourne Park probes the contemporary fault line between propery and peejudice. It is startling, unsettling and outrageously entertaining. Manawawritten by Janie McCaskill Jimmy King, the country's youngest murderer as been in and out of prison his whole life. The Truth Gamewritten by Simon Cunliffe Accting editor of daily newspaper The Advocate Frank Stone is an old-style print warrior for "truth", good grammar and the watchdog role of the "Fourth Estatge"'. At odds with his new corporate masters and the fast encroaching digital media, he finds himself wrestling with collecting demands of principle and abmbition while confronting demands of a messy love-life and fighting a rearguard action for the very 'soul' of the news. The Mourning Afterwrittn by Ahi Karunaharan After the death of his father, Kiwi-born Shekar travels to his father's village in the pearl of the Orient, Sri Lanka. On his arrival Shekar discovers that the tsunami hasa swept away the village and all that remains is a siongle house and those left behind.
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Oncewritten by Enda Walsh with lyrics by Glen Hansard & Makêta Irglová Once is the celbrated new musical based on the Academy Award®- winning film. It tells the story of an Irish musician and a Czech immigrant drawn together by their shared love of music. Ovewr the course of one fateful week, their unexpected friendship and collaboration evolves intoa powerful but complicated romance, heightened by the raw emotion of the songs they create together. My Life with Men... and other Animalsco-written by Maria Cassi and Patrick Pacheco The accomplished Italian theatre artist Maria Cassi will make her American stage debut this March in the international hit My Life with Men... and other Animals, an hilarious and poignant semi-autobiographical look at what makes up to dolce vita and the liflong process of figutring it out. The production, performed seamlessly in English and Italian, has been produced throughout Italy to critical acclaim since 2010, with Cassi being likened to such legendary comedians as Charlie Chaplin and Jacques Tati. Hailed as one of Italy's most engaging and funny exports, Cassi offers a rollicking crash course in love, seduction, death - and olive oil. In this tour-de-force performance, Cassi charts an hilarious path from fearful repression to rueful wisdom, inimatibly bringing to life a host of characters including her reproachful mother, a faithless boyfriend, an American bag lady, a volatile chef-husband and friends who, like her, are fools for love.
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OFF BROADWAYBrooklyn Academy of Music
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written and directed by Athol Fugard
Between patchwork walls in a one-room shack, tow biracial South African brothers grapple with crippling poverty and lonely isolation.
Fugard's revolutionary breakthrough play is a searing indictment of apartheid and one of his most celebrated works.
Season: February 16 - March 11.
Written by Gabe McKinley
Jay, an up and coming black reporter at the New York Times, finds his dreams of becoming a famous journalist come crashing down as he becomes the centre of a plagiarism scandal. Drawing on his own experience as a newsman, Gabe McKinley weaves a revealing and complex story about the collateral damage of unchecked ambition and compounded lies. In this new play inspired by real events, truth becomes slippery and racial tensions reach a boiling point.CQ/CX raises dificult questions about the state of our media culture, and the meaning and price of journalistic integrity.
Season: Febriuray 15 - March 4, 2012.
