Past Events - 2014
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Our Country's Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker
4 Jun 2014 7:00 PM - 7 Jun 2014 7:00 PM
A Theatres Studies production of Timberlake Wertebaker's play about creating theatre in the first penal colony in Australia.
Promise & Promiscuity
4 Jul 2014 7:30 PM
Penny Ashton stars in hilarious award-winning one-woman musical show based very loosely on Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice
Echolalia - created and performed by Jenny McArthur
16 Jul 2014 7:30 PM
Jenny McArthur brings her delightful one woman show to the Academy as part of a fundraising campaign to get to the Edinburgh Festival in August this year.
Nick: an Accidental Hero
24 Jul 2014 7:30 PM
Nick: An Accidental Hero is an inspiring true story about an ordinary man overcoming extraordinary challenges. A solo show written and performed by Renee Lyons, it will have you bursting at the seams with laughter one minute and reaching for the tissues the next!
Munted
14 Aug 2014 7:30 PM
Based on the February 22nd Christchurch Earthquake, Munted was created entirely from interviews with the Christchurch community, media and other New Zealanders. The three performers bring to life 15 people on stage, from a 4 year-old boy, to a Grocer’s wife, to a cameraman covering the earthquake on
The Elephant Man by Bernard Pomerance
3 Sep 2014 7:30 PM - 6 Sep 2014 7:30 PM
Carving in Ice production of award-winning play that offers an intense look at John Merrick, a physically deformed Londoner of the late 1880s.
Beating Hearts and Body Parts
15 Oct 2014 7:30 PM - 17 Oct 2014 7:30 PM
Theatre Studies production of original devised show by third year students, ."...full of beauty, blood and bold physical performances...[taking] you to the the Heart of Desire."
Calypso Nights
27 Oct 2014 8:00 PM
Labour Day Comedy Special! Fresh from success at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the NZ International Comedy Festival Barnie Duncan's highly original one man show Calypso Nights "[ooozes] originality out of every comical pore. I've never seen anything quite like it"
"Fat Pig" by Neil Labute (2004) - playreading
7 Nov 2014 7:00 PM - 8 Nov 2014 7:00 PM
Carving in Ice Theatre Company produce a public playreading of "Fat Pig" by Neil Labute, a play about a young man who is in a happy relationship with a plus-size librarian until his misogynist friend Carter and a female co-worker weigh in with their opinions of his new girlfriend.
"9 Parts of Desire" by Heather Raffo (2003) - playreading
18 Nov 2014 7:00 PM - 19 Nov 2014 7:00 PM
Carving in Ice present a public playreading of "9 Parts of Desire" by Heather Raffo - a portrait of the lives of a wide cross-section of Iraqi women.
"33 Variations" by Moises Kaufman (2009) - playreading
8 Dec 2014 7:00 PM - 9 Dec 2014 7:00 PM
Carving in Ice Theatre Company produce a playreading of Moises Kaufman's play about a dying musicologist's obsession with Beethoven, and Beethoven's own obsession with his own composition of 33 Variations on a waltz by Anton Diabelli.