Habeas Corpus
Barry Mawer directed Alan Bennett's wonderful comedy Habeas Corpus in October 2005.
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream 2007
Florence McFarlane set our first Bard in the Yard Midsummer Night's Dream in an old folk's home so the four 'young' lovers were aged from 60s to 80s. The play was part of the Wellington Fringe Festival and received this positive review from Ewen Coleman in the Dominion Post: Sheer delight Review by Ewen Coleman 06th Mar 2007 The two plays of Shakespeare that are most associated with youth are Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream and so to have the latter set in a rest home where the majority of the characters are in their dotage, as they are in Butterfly Creek Theatre Troupes current Bard-In-The-Yard production seems a
Ten Times Table
A joint directing effort between John Marwick, Florence McFarland and Will Clannachan brought Alan Ayckbourn's comedy Ten Times Table to the Muritai stage in November 2008. Publicity 2008 Take an English village committee planning a pageant, add a committee of directors from Eastbourne village creating a play about it, and you have Butterfly Creek Theatre Troupe’s hilarious next production of “Ten Times Table” by Alan Ayckbourn. The village committee has been brought together to organise a supposedly uplifting pageant based on an incongruous piece of local history in which the ruling classes crushed an uprising of rebellious workers. Ayckbourn has great fun with the classic committee
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
Florence McFarlane directed Peter Nichols' play A Day in the Death of Joe Egg as our mid-year play. The production won the following awards at the Wellington District theatre Federation's full-length play competition. Best Female Actor - Ann Garry Best Black Comedy Best director - Florence McFarlane.
The Importance of Being Earnest
Barry Mawer directed Oscar Wilde's masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest in September 2011. Media Release The Importance of Being Earnest – an all time audience favourite Oscar Wilde’s most well-known and best loved play, The Importance of Being Earnest, is coming to Eastbourne audiences in September, courtesy of Butterfly Creek Theatre Troupe. First performed in 1895, Wilde called it “a trivial comedy for serious people” and it is thought by some critics to have been the funniest play ever written. Director Barry Mawer says the play for him was a ‘must’, with so many wonderfully witty and memorable quotes that never tire. “We did it at
Communicating Doors
John Marwick directed Alan Ayckbourn's Communicating Doors on an elaborate set in October 2012. " Time for a giggle, a laugh, a shock and a bit of suspense. Publicity 2012 Have you ever wondered what is behind those locked doors in your hotel room? Playwright Alan Ayckbourn wondered enough to write a play with the mysterious doors as its central theme. He had gazed at the secret doors which always lead to other rooms and which are always locked, giving him what he called a “Tardis feeling” as if you could go through into a different time zone. The result was his riotous time-travelling comedy-thriller Communicating