Logo for the Womens Theatre Festival aka WTFCir­ca The­atre is delight­ed to announce the line­up for its annu­al WTF! Women’s The­atre Fes­ti­val.

A packed line up of four plays, one devised work, one devel­op­men­tal sea­son, two play read­ings, and a writ­ing work­shop all show­case women play­wrights, direc­tors, design­ers, actors, dancers, musi­cians and the­atre work­ers. They give voice to his­tor­i­cal female char­ac­ters as well as focus­ing on issues fac­ing women today. The sea­sons start in August and runs into Octo­ber. All the pro­duc­tions in Sep­tem­ber are writ­ten by New Zealand women to cel­e­brate New Zealand The­atre Month. Cir­ca The­atre is also proud to be host­ing the Fourth Women in The­atre Hui on 15 Sep­tem­ber 2018.

A hand­ful of WTF! 2018 shows and events are part of the over­lap­ping KM130 fes­ti­val — a Welling­ton city-wide pro­gramme of events, exhi­bi­tions and per­for­mances from July — Oct, cel­e­brat­ing Kather­ine Mansfield’s 130th birth­day. This includes Kather­ine Mans­field and ‘A Wom­an’s Place’, a con­ver­sa­tion with Dr. Gill Greer and Lorae Par­ry which is on at Cir­ca The­atre this Sun­day 29 July.

The shows:

One pub­lic talk: Kather­ine Mans­field and ‘A Woman’s Place’

One spe­cial event: Ginette McDon­ald & Friends – Kather­ine Mans­field Read­ing

Four plays: Blooms­bury Women and the Wild Colo­nial Girl; Mod­ern Girls in Bed; Blonde Poi­son; Uneasy Dreams and Oth­er Things

One devised work: Medusa

One writ­ing work­shop: Women on the Verge…

One devel­op­men­tal sea­son: Rants in the Dark

Two play read­ings: Ten­der; Sean Penn is in His Boat