TITIRANGI THEATRE INC.

Incorporating Waitemata Theatre

Our next production is

Wyrd Sisters
by Sir Terry Pratchitt
Season 8-19 March
Cast: Many, all ages
Audition December 6th, 2pm at the theatre.
Visit our website for details:www.titirangitheatre.co.nz

Become a member
Membership now includes free tickets to all our productions
Pick up a brochure and a membership form in the foyer
Enquiries: membership@titirangitheatre.co.nz

Theatre Hire
The Theatre Auditorium is available for hire.
For further information email theatrehire@titirangitheatre.co.nz

COSTUME HIRE SERVICE

The theatre has an extensive, exciting wardrobe
for hire at reasonable rates.
Our wardrobe hours:
Wednesdays 4-6pm, Fridays 5-7pm, Saturdays 10-12pm
Situated at Lopdell Hall, just behind Lopdell House
For further information contact Lynn, Ph 818 6645
Or email wardrobe@titirangitheatre.co.nz

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 Our sponsors support us - please support them! Please switch off cell phones during the performance
The use of cameras, video equipment or tape recorders
is not permitted in the auditorium.

FOR YOUR INFORMATION:

BOOKINGS: bookings can be made at Titirangi Pharmacy.

Lesley Locke, Director.
Phone 817 7658, or online through our Website: titirangitheatre.co.nz
Lesley Locke has been passionate about theatre since the age of ten when she GROUP BOOKINGS: Special rates available, for more information ask at
trod the boards in her first public performance. Titirangi Pharmacy.
After attending Rose Bruford Drama College in England, she came to New Zea-
land and has acted in professional theatre, television, broadcasting, and film. People with disabilities:.. Please help us offer the best possible service by
These experiences have given her the opportunity to play varied roles in many informing us of your requirements when making bookings. Provision can
Auckland theatres. be made for a limited number of wheelchair users in the auditorium.
Having enjoyed directing throughout Auckland over the last thirty years, this is
Lesleys third production for Titirangi and she is delighted to bring to the stage a For information:
feel good comedy to welcome in the Christmas season. Write to Titirangi Theatre Inc. P O Box 60 092, Titirangi.
email: contact@titirangitheatre.co.nz,
Lesley says it is not an easy task to find a really good comedy play. Although
or visit our website: www.titirangitheatre.co.nz
choosing a well known writer like Alan Ayckbourn is a good place to start.
This is Ayckbourns 71st script and after 40 years of writing plays he is considered
to be a popular choice of theatres everywhere. Our next play will be in production soon- we are always looking for both
Life and Beth has all the usual Ayckbourn traits associated with the observation experienced and novice volunteers to help with backstage, production,
of people and their habits, which allow the author to gain interest from a theatre
marketing and technical tasks.
audience. One of Alan Ayckbourns greatest assets is to make people laugh at
If you are interested visit the volunteer section on our website
themselves. Each member of the audience recognises themselves in one or other
of the situations and titters or cringes inwardly. www.titirangitheatre.co.nz
Lesley says although she enjoys directing comedies she knows it is a serious busi-
ness, as someone once said, for both directors and actors. FIRE REGULATIONS
She takes this opportunity to thank a hardworking cast and crew and hopes the
Fire Exits are situated at the sides of the auditorium.
audience appreciates their efforts in bringing this play to them. Enjoy!
Please keep all stairways, gangways and corridors that afford entry and
exit entirely free from obstruction.
We ask patrons to observe the NO PARKING signs at the entrances
Sponsorship can take many forms... money, goods and services: please think
about how you could sponsor our popular and historic organisation!

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Creative Team
Director
Producer
Directors Assistant
Stage Managers
Lesley Locke
Melandie Oberholzer
Alistair Franks
Melandie Oberholzer, Sabrina Ou, Annie
Life & Beth
Bt Alan Ayckbourn
Franklin
Director: Lesley Locke
Backstage Grace Tolley, Charlotte Tolley, Samantha
Knight, Rose Tse, Amy Zhou, Chien Teng
Make-up Artist Rebecca McNaughton
Props Barbara Butland, Lesley Locke, Graham 3 scenes take place over the space of a day and a half
Douglas, Melandie Oberholzer in the house of Beth Timms.
Set Design Graham Douglass
Set painting/dcor Lesley Locke, Graham Douglass, Jan
Coates, Tony Dunn, Melandie Oberholzer, There will be an interval of 15 minutes
Sabrina Ou, Samantha Knight between Act One and Act Two
Poster Design Malcolm Dale
Set Consruction Graham Douglas, Tony Dunn, Ivan Berry,
Bill Ellis
Sound Design Paul Witherspoon
Lighting Design Sam Carruthers
Light Operators Sam Carruthers, Sonia Mclean, Josh Rust
Front of House Phoebe Falconer
Membership Malcolm Dale and Michael Allen
Tickets Jerome Scott and Michael Allen
Photography Mac McIver
Billboards Tony Dunn, Jerome Scott
Programme Mac McIver
Marketing and Publicity Teena Speedy and Phoebe Falconer
Special Thanks to Stripe Cafe for cast parking, Howick Little
Theatre, Teena Speedy

Interested in acting? Visit Titirangitheatre.co.nz to learn more about

The Green Room performing arts classes and workshops, Mondays and
Wednesday's at the theatre, acting and technical, multiple tutors.

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Cast
Rochelle Cowie - Beth Anne-Lise Mornard - Ella
I am so pleased to be back at Titirangi Theatre. This I play Ella, Martin's new girlfriend who doesnt look like
was where I started my acting career, thanks to one shes going to be around much longer, considering how
person giving me the chance, it feels like coming home. well they fit together.
Now I have the privilege of working with a great cast, Not unlike me, Ella seems slightly socially unfit, but that's
director and crew. I also have the chance to play a where the comparison ends, as I like to think that my
wonderful and patient woman named Beth who is just conversation skills are largely superior to hers.
working out SOMETIMES life begins after death If I very much enjoyed playing a (mostly) silent character. It gave me the op-
everyone would just leave her alone to get on with it. portunity to focus on body language, and god knows Ella's is subtle! This is
a fun part for a newbie actress like me to test the waters.
Alan J Thomson - Gordon Max Golding - David
Alan hails from Yorkshire and started acting last year
Max has had over 50 years of stage appearances
with Agatha Christies Murder on the Nile closely
mostly with community theatres in Auckland.
followed by Sleeping Beauty, Its Never Too Late,
This is the fourth time he has taken the stage at
Blackadder out at Waiatarua and just in the last couple
Titirangi Theatre.
of weeks Calendar Girls in Glen Eden Playhouse.
In 2012 as Reg in Four Flat Whites in Italy, in 2013 as
He lives on a cliff above Blockhouse Bay beach and is
Edwin in Who Wants to be 100 and earlier this year as
an avid gardener, squash player and artist. Get him to
Sebastian in Shortcut to Happiness.
sort your garden out at bromeliads@gardener.com. He loves the subtle
He and his wife Sue have their own small company and from time to time
sarcastic humour of Life & Beth and the ridiculous sorting out of "heaven"
stage their own productions.
that Gordon purports to have done! Gordon is so opinionated, Beth has
This year has seen Max progress from the sleazy Sebastian earlier at
had a "marriage-full" of keeping the peace and letting herself be rail-
Titirangi Theatre through to the laid back American retiree Wyatt in Things
roaded to keep the peace. No longer!!! She's moving on
My Mother Taught Me at Ellerslie Theatre, then the diplomat, Richard
Greatham in Hay Fever at Company Theatre to this current role of David
Kieran Maskell - Martin as a well meaning but ingratiating vicar.
Kieran fell in love with acting when he first saw the cin- Andrea Diprose Connie
ematic legend that is Star Wars. And hasn't stopped
loving it since. Kieran relishes the opportunity to be in- Having previously performed at Glen Eden Playhouse,
Waiatarua, and Dolphin Theatre, Andrea has ventured out
volved in Life and Beth and to work with the great cast
into new territory this year by treading the boards at Titi-
and crew.
rangi Shortcut to Happiness, and Ellerslie Farewell. Her fa-
"The role of Martin is a great change for me, it's not
vourite productions have been playing Meg in Leading
often for me that I get to play someone that I think I
Ladies and Mrs Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility.
could walk down the street and get to meet."

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