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Three Sisters

The mid-year production in 2014 was Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters directed by Emanuel E Garcia. Comments from Local Artist & Poet Suzanne Herschell Well, I went to 3 Sisters tonight. The play deserved a much bigger audience because it was simply amazing, Was there anything for a critic to find fault with? The set was so good, the Marc Chagall images a wonderful evocative backdrop, costumes lovely. But what really stunned me was the individual acting. Each person owned their character and played the particular role so well with distinct personality. It is unfair to single out any actors when they were all superb. And the play,

Hamlet

William Shakespeare's great tragedy was directed by Emanuel E Garcia for our Bard in the Yard 2015. Cast Bernardo: David Gledhil Claudius: Hayden Rogers Fortinbras: Iain Gordon Francisco: Peter Hughson Gertrude: Renee Christie Gravedigger: Anne Manchester Hamlet: Benjamin Haddock Horatio: Laurie Ward Laertes: Mike McJorrow Marcellus: Andy Hall Ophelia: Harriet Prebble Osric: Erin Murphy Player King: Anne Manchester Player Queen: Sandra Gillespie Players: Erin Murphy, Iain Gordon (who will perform on mandolin during “The Mousetrap”) Polonius: Manny Garcia     Publicity 2015 The Hutt News 3 Mar 2015 Hamlet in original form Something is rotten in the state of Denmark: Actors in Butterfly Creek Theatre Troupe’s production

Pygmalion

Florence McFarlane directed Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw in June 2015. Check out the marvellous video of our production of Pygmalion - thanks to Hayden Rogers. Director’s Notes May 2015 “Pygmalion” rehearsals are well under way with all scenes now covered. I’m working with a great cast committed to bringing this classic to today’s audience with all the freshness of its first showing in 1914. When GBS wrote the play travel was still the prerogative of the ‘well-to-do’ and thus Professor Higgins could place a person’s place of birth within a mile in London with the utmost confidence, knowing that they lived and died without venturing

A Little Hotel on the Side

This wonderful French farce was written by Goerge Faydeau & Maurice Desvallières, translated by John Mortimer and our production was directed by John Marwick.

As You Like It

Bard in the Yard 2019 was As You Like It. This was the second time the Troupe had produced the play although the previous production had been in 2001 when we still performed in people's back yards with book in hand. The 2019 production was directed by Anne Manchester. Publicity 2019 I'd like to let you know that Eastbourne's Butterfly Creek Theatre Troupe is putting on its summer Bard in the Yard Shakespeare production in the first week of March. This year (our 23rd annual Shakespeare production) Anne Manchester is directing As You Like It. She's giving the Bard's romantic comedy a contemporary New Zealand twist. As in

Othello

Our Bard in the Yard production was Shakespeare's great tragedy of jealousy - Othello. We sneaked in just before the COVID pandemic. Publicity 2020 Love, jealousy, race, revenge and madness -- such are the major themes of Shakespeare';s Othello. And like all of the great tragedies, nothing is quite as black and white as it may seem. How pure was Desdemona? How gullible was Othello? How evil was Iago? Join us for a fast-paced production of a drama that builds towards a passionately explosive conclusion like no other.

The Winter’s Tale

As its 25th annual Shakespeare production the Troupe presented The Winter's Tale for the second time in February / March 2021 (the first production was 21 years earlier). It was directed jointly by John Marwick and Elspeth Cotsilinis. Allen Burne won an Antoinnette Award for Excellence in Acting in the Wellington District Theatre Federation's Full Length Play competition. Watch a recording of this production on YouTube Publicity 2021 Eastbourne’s prize-winning Butterfly Creek Theatre Troupe celebrates 25 years of Shakespeare with a Bard in the Yard outdoor production of his magical, romantic, tragi-comedy The Winter’s Tale. A fairy tale of how love, laughter, music and dance

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Muritai School Yard Muritai Road, Eastbourne, Lower Hutt, New Zealand (+64), New Zealand

Bard in the Yard 2022 was A Midsummer Night's Dream directed by Anne Manchester. Watch a recording of this production on YouTube Publicity 2022 A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy written by William Shakespeare c. 1595 or 1596. The play is set in Athens and consists of several subplots that revolve around the marriage of Theseus and Hippolyta. One subplot involves a conflict among four Athenian lovers. Another follows a group of six amateur actors rehearsing the play which they are to perform before the wedding. Both groups find themselves in a forest inhabited by fairies who manipulate the humans and are engaged in

Henry IV, Part 1 – William Shakespeare

Muritai School Yard Muritai Road, Eastbourne, Lower Hutt, New Zealand (+64), New Zealand

Our Bard in the Yard production for 2023 was Henry IV, Part 1 - directed by Tanya Piejus. The play was presented with a Star Wars theme. Publicity 2023 Captain Henry Bullingbrook of the USS Britannia faces a new challenge as an unprecedented alliance of Romulans, Klingons and Andorians is forming, bent on taking control of the planet Muritaria. Meanwhile, Henry's daughter is hanging with a dodgy crowd from Engineering, pranking the debauched Lieutenant Falstaff and generally behaving in ways unworthy of a future starship commander, unlike the Romulan Hotspur who is seemingly everyone's idea of an up-and-coming leader. Star Trek meets Shakespeare in Eastbourne

At The Bay

In July 2023 Troupe members, under the direction of Anne Manchester, helped create a short film. Click here to see this film Publicity 2023 Katherine Mansfield’s greatest story, At the Bay, is celebrated in a short photographic tribute, combining historical images and selected episodes from the story. The film is a new production by local photographer Simon Hoyle and includes actors from Eastbourne’s Butterfly Creek Theatre Group. Directed and narrated by Anne Manchester, it also draws on many contemporary images of the setting for At the Bay, chosen by local historian Alison Carew. The production is accompanied by music for cello and piano composed by

Macbeth

Muritai School Yard Muritai Road, Eastbourne, Lower Hutt, New Zealand (+64), New Zealand

This was the 28th consecutive year that the Troupe had presented a Shakespeare production - and the second time we have presented Macbeth (previously 2008).  This year's production was Bard in the Yard and the weather gods were favourable with only one night having to move into the school hall. Allan Burne, who played Macbeth, won an Antoinette Award for Excellence in Acting at the annual Wellington District Theatre Federation Full Length Play Competition. The play was presented in a crime family setting. The three witches were described as Three Women and were present on stage during the whole production playing multiple roles. Cast Woman

The Foreigner

Muritai School Hall 166 Muritai Road, Eastbourne, Lower Hutt, New Zealand

The Foreigner, a play by Larry Shue first produced on Broadway in 1984 was presented in October 2024 directed by Suzy Cain. Publicity October 2024 Mistaken identities, evil adversaries, plot twists, and absurd excesses are in store for Butterfly Creek Theatre Troupe’s final production of the year, The Foreigner by Larry Shue.  Rehearsals are now underway. Winner of two Obie Awards, two Outer Critic Circle Awards and named the Best New American Play and Best Off-Broadway Production of 1984, this modern farce remains a staple of regional and community theatre. Director Suzy Cain, (along with Assistant Director Nicola Tod) has assembled a fantastic cast and Cain is

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