Winter Season

Hagley Theatre School is proud to launch the inaugural Winter Season of the Six-Month Theatre Creation Course in partnership with The Isaac Theatre Royal for an exciting double bill! Under the direction of Dr Pedro Ilgenfritz, these two punchy pieces made by three young professional artists will have you on the edge of your seat with an evening of Aotearoa stories that are sure to delight and entertain.

The night will begin with The Meeting by Lola Houghton &Pedro Ilgenfritz, where a top secret, future-defining meeting isabout to take place. Three personal assistants struggle to make the necessary arrangements. Subversive and snappy, the circus of civil affairs in Aotearoa is brought to life with humour and vitality in this farcical one-woman political satire. Lola transforms into seven characters, running circles around each other in an hour of zany, action-packed chaos!

After a brief intermission, we then invite you to watch E Ipo, My Love by Gisele Proud & Tane Te Pakeke-Patterson, an honest, heartfelt and at times hilarious look at what it is to be a Māori and Pākehā couple in Aotearoa New Zealand. Inspired by historical accounts, interviews with couples, and their own experiences of being together, Tane and Gisele pull back the curtain on bicultural relationships in a nation with “one of the best race relations in the world”. From first contact to final moments, E Ipo, My Love invites you to navigate both the uncomfortable and the uplifting alongside a young couple who are still trying to figure it out for themselves.

• June 26-28, 7pm

• Isaac Theatre Royal, Chirstchurch