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Snow White and Rose Red

Published: Fri 3 Apr 2009 09:35 AM
Theatre for Children Inc
The Producers of Puss ‘n Boots and The Pied Piper Presents
Snow White and Rose Red
Written and Directed by Sarah Delahunty
11 – 25 April
AT 4 Moncrieff St., Mt. Victoria
Who needs Dancing with the Stars, when you can have Dancing with the Bears?
It all began when the hunters came and the animals disappeared. Snow White misses the animals and Rose Red needs a dance partner. Together the sisters go on a quest to find both. As luck would have it, on their adventures they meet a prince who loves animals and a bear who can dance! A delightful tale of dance competitions and animal rights.
Sarah Delahunty is a writer and director, who has had a long association with children’s theatre, having written and directed many children’s shows, including The Emperor’s New Clothes playstory series at Downstage, adaptations of Beauty and the Beast, Rumpelstiltskin, Puss and Boots, The Gingerbread Man (KidzStuff 2006) and The Sleeping Beauty (KidzStuff 2007).
The talented cast includes David Goldthorpe, who was recently seen in The Pied Piper (KidzStuff 2008), played the Earthworm in Fortune Theatre’s James and the Giant Peach in Dunedin last year, toured in Songs of the Sea with Capital E in 2007 and appeared in Troy (the musical) at Circa Theatre. Alison Walls, who is a Wellington-born actor/director and has performed in New York, Chicago, North Carolina and Wellington. She remembers reading and re-reading Snow White and Rose Red in days gone by and is thrilled to give these familiar characters new life on stage. Gareth Ruck, who has performed everything from intimate improvised theatre to stadium rock musicals. He has worked in radio for many years and has a fist full of NZ and international radio creative awards. On television Gareth hosted TV3’s The Simon Eliot Show, which was nominated as Best Children’s Show in the 2007 Qantas TV Awards. He was a member of the 2008 Theatresports Champion team The Other Side, and was Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards Sound Designer of the Year in 2008 for Apollo 13: Mission Control. Phylli JasonSmith, who has been performing since she was a child, first performed in children's theatre as Nobody in The Nobodies with Crow Station. Phylli has been performing on stage and screen ever since, appearing most recently as a Siamese twin in Long Cloud Youth Theatre’s Colony.
Performance Times:
Monday – Friday 11 am and 1 pm Saturdays at 11 am
NB No shows Monday 13 April (Easter Monday)
Tickets $10 Groups of 10+ $8.00 each Children under 2 Free With special prices for holiday programmes
Special Opening Preview 11 April $5.00 per ticket.
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