Here’s a round up of what shows are on this week.

At Cir­ca The­atre…

Ana­hera, on at Cir­ca The­atre to 7 Octo­ber 2017

A con­tem­po­rary domes­tic thriller (in the style of Broad­church) about a strug­gling kiwi fam­i­ly. Liz and Peter Hunter have it all. A great mar­riage, suc­cess­ful careers, a beau­ti­ful house and two won­der­ful chil­dren. Until their son Har­ry goes miss­ing. Dis­traught, they wait for news from the police, sup­port­ed by social work­er Ana­hera. But as the hours pass and every­one is pushed beyond their lim­its, Ana­hera must make a stand. But is it already too late? Can Ana­hera save any­one?

A Doris Day spe­cial on at Cir­ca The­atre to 14 Octo­ber 2017

Ali Harp­er returns with her high­ly-acclaimed show A Doris Day Spe­cial. Doris Day, with her bub­bly per­son­al­i­ty, lilt­ing voice and blonde beau­ty, was America’s singing sweet­heart of the sil­ver screen dur­ing the 1950s and 1960s. With her hit songs Sen­ti­men­tal Jour­ney, Secret Love and Que Sera Sera, Day was for many years ranked as the #1 female box office star in the world. Direct­ed by Stephanie McKel­lar-Smith with the Big Band Musi­cal Direc­tion by Rodger Fox, it’s 1971 and Doris is film­ing her Tele­vi­sion Spe­cial. You are invit­ed to be a part of A Doris Day Spe­cial tele­vi­sion stu­dio audi­ence and cel­e­brate the life and songs of that quin­tes­sen­tial girl next door.

 

At BATS The­atre…

Me and My Sis­ter Tell Each Oth­er Every­thing on at BATS The­atre to 23 Sep­tem­ber 2017

A fam­i­ly-unfriend­ly play about sib­ling rela­tion­ships set to song and hubris. Sib­lings rela­tion­ships are a bond you share with those humans no one else can under­stand – you know EVERYTHING about each oth­er, the good, the bad and the ugly (and the naked, drunk, stu­pid, sad and glo­ri­ous).Please note:  Me and My Sis­ter Tell Each Oth­er Every­thing con­tains detailed dis­cus­sion and graph­ic por­tray­al of sui­cide includ­ing blood. It also con­tains coarse lan­guage.

I, Will Jones, on at BATS The­atre, 19–23 Sep­tem­ber 2017

I, Will Jones is the third show from come­di­an and writer Eamonn Mar­ra. It inves­ti­gates the hyper­com­pet­i­tive, hyper­mas­cu­line cul­ture of New Zealand’s all-boys high schools. Direct­ed by New Zealand Fringe Award-win­ning direc­tor Adam Goodall (Stand Up Love, Pro­fi­cien­cy Test), I, Will Jones is a provoca­tive and hilar­i­ous sto­ry from one of New Zealand’s most high­ly-regard­ed up-and-com­ing come­di­ans about the peo­ple we are and the peo­ple we’d rather be.

“If you could be any­one in the world, who would you be? To Eamonn Mar­ra, twelve years old, the answer is obvi­ous: Will Jones, the coolest kid in inter­me­di­ate. When Eamonn and Will end up at the same high school, both at the bot­tom of the heap, Eamonn gets a chance to live his dream – he strikes a deal with Will to switch lives, a cou­ple of hours at a time, like the Ani­morphs in those books. Final­ly, Eamonn can be the per­son he wants to be, if only for a lit­tle bit… but what hap­pens when that’s no longer enough?”

Playshop live at BATS The­atre, on Fri­days

Fast, spon­ta­neous com­e­dy from noth­ing! They’re back and big­ger than ever; with more thrills and spills in late-night com­e­dy that’s unique­ly PlayShop.  Be led by our charm­ing actors through a night of fun, friv­o­li­ty and feel-good vibes.

Brack­ets at BATS The­atre, month­ly on Sat­ur­days

A month­ly smor­gas­bord of queer enter­tain­ment — every­thing from plays to pod­casts to poet­ry slams.

All that’s best in queer per­for­mance, for and by the queer com­mu­ni­ty. Brack­ets is our his­to­ry told through per­for­mance – every­thing from plays to pod­casts to poet­ry slams. We’re pop­ping the lid on the dress-up box, dust­ing off our copies of Dykes to Watch Out For, and sit­ting at the feet of our favourite aun­tie to hear the sto­ries she couldn’t tell us when we were younger.

 

On at the Han­nah Play­house…

The Whole­heart­ed at the Han­nah Play­house 20–23 Sep­tem­ber 2017

An hon­est por­tray­al of the extreme pow­er of love, The Whole­heart­ed is a heart-warm­ing devised the­atre work that spans gen­er­a­tions, gen­ders and cul­tures. A mix of char­ac­ters ten­der­ly and humor­ous­ly share with us their search for a whole­heart­ed way of life, explor­ing what peo­ple do in the pur­suit of love and how love changes us. Jour­neys of heart­break, grief and loss are charm­ing­ly and vig­or­ous­ly trans­formed by the ensem­ble to the courage, com­pas­sion and joy that exists with­in each of us.

 

Else­where

World of Wear­ableart Awards Show on at 21 Sep­tem­ber ‑8 Octo­ber 2017

The World of Wear­ableArt®, known as WOW®, is a renowned inter­na­tion­al design com­pe­ti­tion that attracts hun­dreds of entries from all over the world.