hudson-and-halls

Silo Theatre is bring­ing last year’s Auck­land fest­ive hit “Hud­son and Halls” to the Han­nah Play­house. I’ve heard pos­it­ive reviews from my Auck­land friends and I’m so look­ing for­ward to see­ing it when it’s down here.

Peter Hud­son and Dav­id Halls were on New Zea­l­and tele­vi­sion from 1976–1986 with a cook­ing show that included camp humour and a bit of slap­stick. Kip Chap­man, dir­ect­or, co-cre­at­or and act­or, says “The audi­ence don’t need to know any­thing about Peter and Dav­id to have a great night. If you do want to learn more there is a hil­ari­ous epis­ode of their show on NZ on Screen.”

“We’re really excited by the team who make Hud­son and Halls. This year I’m play­ing Peter Hud­son, the role my hus­band [Todd Emer­son] played in the ori­gin­al Auck­land sea­son as he’s unavail­able this time round. Chris Park­er, who is one of New Zeal­and’s best impro­visers and per­formers, is play­ing Dav­id Halls and Anya Tate-Man­ning is play­ing the floor man­ager, Ngaire Watkins. When Todd and I star­ted think­ing about Hud­son & Halls we very quickly real­ised it had all the right ele­ments to make a really great piece of theatre. We could cre­ate a 1980’s tele­vi­sion stu­dio right there in the theatre and have live cook­ing onstage. Their per­son­al­it­ies were cer­tainly the­at­ric­al enough. We also wanted to cel­eb­rate these won­der­ful men and keep the memory of them alive.”

Come along for “Live cook­ing, a sur­prise music­al per­form­ance, lots of laughs and per­haps even a few tears.” (And a peach bellini or few.)

  • Silo Theatre’s pro­duc­tion of ‘Hud­son and Halls Live!’ runs from 16 Nov – 10 Dec at Han­nah Play­house. Tick­ets and more info from silotheatre.co.nz