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KAT CHAT
Khandallah
Arts Theatre Newsletter
November 2007
PLAY IN THE PARK
PRINCESS KATE AND THE DRAGON
The play-in-the-park has been cast and the cast is:
Jess and Bess, Royal Gardeners - Clare Short & Lynn Coory; Percy, Royal Right-hand Man - Kevin Brown; Queen - Sarah Lawson; Princess Kate - Jessica Doubé; Dragon - Shelley Reet; Brad and Stan, con-men - Geoffroy Boucher & Matt Todd.
We are still looking for Royal Musicians to join Lisa (keyboard) and Paul Langham (sax). If you are interested please contact either
Mary Collie-Holmes on 970 0440 or Lisa Duggan on 938 0659.
If you are keen to be involved backstage please contact Mary or Lisa or
Susan Vella on 972 3767.
Production dates are 6, 8, 9, 10, 15 and 16 February 2008, with two performances on the 6th, 9th and 16th. The play will be on at Khandallah Park. Watch out for the float advertising KAT and the play at the Johnsonville Christmas Parade. We need
you to be in the parade.
CLUB NIGHT – TUESDAY 20 NOVEMBER at7.30pm
Susan Vella is directing an unrehearsed play reading, where KAT members present at the club night will participate in reading of
Charitable Intent by well-known Australian contemporary playwright
David Williamson.
The play is set up to replicate a workplace conference, chaired by character Jack Manning and revolves around the poisonous workplace atmosphere of a charitable organisation. The recent fund-raiser was a disaster; the "old hands" are in conflict with the "new brooms" ie the new female CEO (a false and icy persona) and the Chairman of the Board who finds life an unending battle against inefficiency and complacency. Readers will take turns to create the workplace characters who find the conflict unbearable. The language and setting of the play are of an every day nature and so the play can be read by many people taking turns without preparation. Let your inner actor guide you.
KAT did a similar reading last year of another play by the same author and it was a successful night as everyone could participate.
LADIES WHO LUNCH
Congratulations to Ewen Coleman and his cast and crew for an entertaining evening. The play was well received and there were several full houses.
The demands for multiple modern wardrobe changes were the most challenging Novena Bridge had ever encountered and we acknowledge her enormous contribution to the production’s success.
MEMBERS’ NEWS
Thanks to Barry Meyers and Ross Foubister who assisted with the Johnsonville School’s fashion parade.
Barry Meyers is to be the stage manager for Stagecraft’s production of
The Weekend.
Ross Foubister has been doing the lighting around the country for Gilbert and Sullivan’s
The Tales of Hoffman.
Congratulations to Margaret and Mike Walls who recently became grandparents with daughter
Lucy giving birth to a baby boy, Patrick Ryan Saunders.
OTHER NEWS
Writer Carl Nixon won the Katherine Mansfield short fiction prize for My Beautiful
Balloon. You may recognise the name, as Susan Vella has directed some of his children’s plays for the play-in-the-park, most recent was this years
The Three Little Pigs.
On Labour Day the History of the 8 Hour Day was broadcast on the radio, this was written by KAT Life Member,
Zennie (Zenocrate) Graham.
JOHNSONVILLE CHRISTMAS PARADE
Christmas is fast approaching which means that the Johnsonville Christmas parade is drawing close. Khandallah Arts Theatre have a float and if you are interested in dressing up and getting into the festive mood then please contact
Lynn Coory on 479 1598 or lynn.coory@landtransport.govt.nz.
The parade is to take place on Saturday 1 December, assembling at 10am for an 11am start.
THEATRE TERMS
Strike
The time immediately following the last performance where all cast and crew members are required to stay and dismantle (or watch the two people who own the power screw drivers) the set.
Actors (as defined by a set designer)
People who stand between the audience and the set designer’s art, blocking the view. That’s also the origin of the word “blocking”.
WHAT’S COMING UP AT KAT…
20 November Circle reading of Charitable Intent by David Williamson
1 December Johnsonville Christmas Parade
Mark these dates in your diary now.
WHAT’S HAPPENING ELSEWHERE…
| Hutt Repertory |
Anyone for Breakfast by Derek Benfield |
14-24 November |
| Kapiti Playhouse |
Mean Jean the Pirate Queen by Michealanne Forster |
24 November – 3 December |
| Porirua Little Theatre |
Seussical the Musical by Lynn Ahrens & Stephen Flaherty |
15 November – 1 December |
| Tawa Community Theatre |
Melodramatic Murder and Mayhem at Moore Manor by Margaret Potter & Marie Thomson |
23 November – 1 December |
| Wellington Repertory |
Shakespeare Review |
28 November – 7 December |
See you at the club night on Tuesday 20 November
Jenny
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