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Six Characters in Search of an Author

Luigi Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author was translated, adapted and directed by John Marwick Amber Baldock won an award for Outstanding Performance in a Leading Role at the Wellington District Theatre Federation's full length play competition. Cast Father Peter Baldock Mother Fran Baldock Step-daughter Amber Baldock Son Theo Nettleton Boy Connor Macrae-Clannachan Child Isabel Stewart Madame Pace Anne Manchester Director Will Clannachan Leading Lady Joanna Hulme Leading Man David Gledhill Second actor Thomas Pepperell Second actress / Props Carol Thompson Stage Manager / Technician Ed Hickey Rehearsal Assistant Sandra Gillespie Following a successful run in Eastbourne the production was staged for two nights

Ten Times Table

A joint directing effort between John Marwick, Florence McFarlane 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