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Season: 26 March - 5 April 2025
By Roald Dahl, Adapted for the stage by David Wood.
Directed by Coryn Knapper
In this delightful stage adaptation, Roald Dahl’s classic tale is faithfully told by James himself, along with the insect characters – Miss Spider, Old-Green-Grasshopper, Centipede, Ladybird, and Earthworm. The play begins at the end of the story, when James and his friends are living in the giant peach stone in Central Park, New York.
A tour guide brings a party of tourists (the audience) to see this major attraction, and James and his friends tell the story of how they came to live in New York. The insects play the other roles, like James’s cruel Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker, and the epic journey across the Atlantic is acted out with live action, puppetry and storytelling in David Wood's masterful adaptation.
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Happening: Saturday 12th April & Sunday 13th April 2025
Venue: Riverlea Theatre, 83 Riverlea Road, Hillcrest, Hamilton
For more information or to arrange an audition time please email
The Play by Kirt Shineman:
It is December 1975, after Christmas, and Agatha Christie must finish her autobiography and the final novel before the new year. Yet, Agatha is fixated on an event in her past when Nancy Neele stole her husband. With Mary Westmacott’s help, they contemplate what it would be like to kill Nancy. Even though Agatha considered murdering Nancy, did she really do it, or is her reality disappearing?Director: Mike Williams
Rehearsals: Mondays, Wednesdays and Sundays.
Rehearsals will commence on Sunday 27 April 2025.
Season: 28 June - 12 July 2025
THE CHARACTERS
Agatha Christie - 85 years old, walks with a limp and wears dentures. She wears late 1940s-style suits and skirts with pintucks instead of figure seams.
Mary Westmacott - 80 to 115 years old and wears a grey 1940s dress with words sewn into the print. Her severe eyes give away her curiosity. The personification of Agatha's nom de plume, only Agatha can see her.
Rosalind Hicks - 56 years old, tall and white-haired. She wears late 1960s bell-bottom pants and a blouse. Throughout the play she smokes Embassy Filter Virginia cigarettes.
Anthony "Tony" Hicks - 59 years old and wears 1970s work clothes with a knit cap. He carries a flask and sneaks sips of Scotch.
Archie Christie - An elegant, well-groomed man dressed in a 1920s tuxedo with tails. Played by the same actor who plays Tony.
William "Billy" Collins - Friend, publisher and editor for HarperCollins. He wears a business suit. Played by the same actor who plays Tony.
See www.playbox.org.nz for more information. Or book your audition time as detailed above.
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Season: 28 June - 12 July 2025
by Kirt Shineman
It is December 1975, after Christmas, and Agatha Christie must finish her autobiography and the final novel before the new year. Yet, Agatha is fixated on an event in her past when Nancy Neele stole her husband. With Mary Westmacott’s help, they contemplate what it would be like to kill Nancy. Even though Agatha considered murdering Nancy, did she really do it, or is her reality disappearing?
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at Riverlea Theatre in association with CCS
Happening: 18-19 July 2025
Teams of up to six actors, per team, write and rehearse a play in 24 hours. They then perform it to a public audience on Saturday night. Each team will have adjudication, and a winner will be announced.
Registrations are open for our annual 24 Hour Play Challenge happening on the 14/15 February. If you have been part of this event before you know how much fun it can be, and if you haven’t yet been able to experience it, now is your chance!
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Season: 4-18 October 2025
Based on the original BBC TV series written by Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft
Adapted by David Pibworth, David Lovesy and Steve Clark
Based on the hugely popular TV comedy series, this sequel to the popular stage production of ’Allo ’Allo continues the adventures of reluctant resistance hero and harassed café owner, René Artois, in German-occupied wartime France. It features many of your favourite characters from the TV series and original stage play.
Still trying to repatriate a pair of British airmen, René, his wife Edith and their café waitresses, Mimi and Yvette, are embroiled in yet another complicated and life-threatening scheme. General Von Klinkerhoffen demands a fortune in francs in recompense for the loss of the infamous painting of ‘The Fallen Madonna With The Big Boobies’, and René is expected to come up with the cash.
But nothing is ever easy. The local undertaker, Monsieur Alphonse, is making advances on Edith. René’s mother-in-law, Fanny, objects to the radio used to communicate with London being hidden under her bed. No one can understand what Officer Crabtree (the British agent disguised as a Policeman) is saying. Michelle of the Resistance has a series of increasingly hare-brained proposals. Herr Flick of the Gestapo, Colonel Von Strohm and Captain Geering all have their own plans to get hold of the money, and Lieutenant Gruber still wants to take René away for a ride in his little tank… The cash, a set of forged notes and a bomb all end up hidden in identical camembert cheeses.
What could possibly go wrong?
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