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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

Animal Farm

Animal Farm by George Orwell adapted by Peter Hall Directed by Barry Mawer, music by Richard Peaslee, lyrics Adrian Mitchell. Publicity 2015 The award-winning Butterfly Creek Theatre Troupe is bringing George Orwell’s Animal Farm to the stage with a dramatisation originally adapted from the book by Peter Hall, former Director of the National Theatre, London.  This fast-moving musical play of George Orwell’s classic satire is fresh and immensely enjoyable without compromising the original material in the book.  In fact it is very faithful to the book and includes a large cast of farm animals (played by adults and children).  Director Barry Mawer says that the

The Tempest

Bard in the Yard 2016 was The Tempest directed by Emannuel E Garcia. Director’s Notes The Tempest, widely considered to be Shakespeare’s last play and a summary comment on his creative endeavours, is a unique blend of magic and realism.  It is a story about a usurped monarch, slavery, love and redemption, and a brave new world of possibilities.  Our production will emphasise the surreal and dreamlike nature of the drama, as well as its earthiness and ambiguity.  We are fortunate enough to have an experienced cast of Shakespeareans, as well as original live music specifically composed for this Bard in the Yard theatrical experience.

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.

Taking Steps

Taking Steps by Alan Ayckbourn was directed by Florence McFarlane in August 2018.

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.

It Runs in the Family

The mid-year play was a farce by Ray Cooney, directed by Florence McFarlane. Publicity 2021 Get ready for your glasses to steam up with laughter: Butterfly Creek Theatre Troupe is performing It Runs in the Family by Britain’s master of farce, Ray Cooney. In this larger-than-life tale of comical chaos, Dr Mortimer (a successful neurologist) must fend off a surprise paternity case: whilst keeping his wife out of the picture, and simultaneously giving a prestigious international lecture that may lead to his knighthood - if done properly. This is a farce though, and as Dr Mortimer tries to get himself out of one sticky situation,

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

The Ghost Train

Ghost Train by Arnold Ridley directed Lian Butcher August 2022 Publicity 2022 The Ghost Train will have you laughing one minute and jumping out of your seat the next. Set in the 1920s we follow a group of stranded passengers stuck overnight on a haunted railway station….what will be their outcome, only time can tell.

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

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