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It’s August and the year is flying away on us!
We’re looking forward to a big month with our friends at Company Theatre. Oscar Wilde is back in town with “The Importance of being Earnest”. It’s a classic comedy of manners and will tickle even the coldest hearts after a trip through a cold night to the theatre.
Company Theatre transports you to the 1890s, to Victorian England, for a performance of enchantment and hilarity. The Importance of Being Earnest is Oscar Wilde's most brilliant tour de force, a witty and buoyant comedy that has delighted millions in countless productions. This superb satire is one of the funniest plays in the English language - the delightful repartee and hilarious piercing of hypocrisy and pomposity will make you laugh out loud.
Two bachelor friends, the dandy Algernon Moncrieff and the utterly reliable John Worthing, lead double lives to court the attentions of the exquisitely desirable Gwendolyn Fairfax and Cecily Cardew. The gallants must then grapple with the riotous consequences of their deceptions, as well as with the formidable Lady Bracknell.
After a simply brilliant turn in “Deathtrap” last year, Adam Pomeroy returns in the role of Algernon. August 11 to 25 is the season and you can grab tickets at iticket.co.nz, just search “Company Theatre” and scroll down till you see this poster image.
Our first RoseTalk with Dave Veart on Archaeology of Māori Settlement of Devonport Peninsula was amazingly well attended. We were embarrassed by its success. Now we have a new talk, Professor Geoff Lealand will show the film he produced and debuted at Doc Edge in 2017, “The Reel People of New Zealand”. This 30-minute documentary takes a look into New Zealand’s independently owned cinema theatres, still thriving in the cities and small towns of New Zealand.
It’s much more than an exercise of nostalgia for traditional film-going, as it shows that this South Pacific nation of little more than four million people continues to support a surprising number of small, art house cinemas, with more than 100 listed on www.cinemasofnz.info, the website which inspired the film. This is 7.30pm Monday August 27. No bookings necessary, but we recommend coming early as if we are overfull again we will stop admissions at our building limit.