Peer Gynt [Recycled]

Auckland theatre company

PEER GYNT is a bad boy with big dreams and a lust for life. And women. Banished for seducing a bride on her wedding day, he wanders the world from Arabia to America in search of love, fame and fortune. After a lifetime of exotic encounters and epic adventures, real or imagined, he makes his way home, to confront his past.

Wunderkind Kiwi playwright and recipient of an ATC Patrons Writers' Award, Eli Kent features as a central character alongside the charismatic anti-hero for all the thrills and spills of his astonishing life quest.

Ibsen's critique of self-obsession is given a new edge of relevance in this age of social media, where it's perfectly acceptable to be obsessed with yourself.

 

ROLES PLAYED

Peer #1 | Peer #5 | Thomas | Ghost Writer #1 | Ensemble


Earnest

last tapes theatre company

The lights are low. The gin is in great supply. The band is playing your favourites. In the smoky depths of a 50's London gay bar, the tipsy regulars loosen their dinner jackets to ask - who the f*ck is Ernest? Under the beady eye of top-bitch, Lady Bracknell, two dandy fops squabble over the love of two dreamy sweethearts, and the name ‘Ernest’ seems to matter an awful lot...
 
Brimming with vivacious wit, a bit of bravado and some downright silliness, Earnest is an audacious reimagining that blasts the cobwebs off Oscar Wilde's saucy play. 

Bringing the beloved text to life is a sprightly all-male cast, a sexy live band, and the greatest hits of Cher (yes, Cher!). It's the perfect marriage of classic tunes like Turn Back Time and The Shoop Shoop Song, and Wilde's devilish one-liners. 

Fractious Tash (Confessions, Titus) and Last Tapes Theatre Company (The Last Five Years, Verbatim) have joined forces to bring you a show like no other, taking everything you thought you knew about Oscar's play and catapaulting it skyward!

Rebooted and revamped, this is Oscar's quintessential comedy as you've never seen it before!

 

ROLE PLAYED

Gwendolyn


Once On Chunuk Bair

Auckland Theatre Company

It is almost a hundred years ago that Lieutenant-Colonel William Malone, along with the rest of the Wellington Battalion, took the peak of Chunuk Bair. Of those 760 men, all but 70 were dead by the time they were joined by reinforcements. Officially, this slaughter was the only success for the Allies in their Gallipolli Campaign. 

Once on Chunuk Bair comes to the Maidment Theatre twenty-five years after its last professional production. Co-directed by Cameron Rhodes and Ian Mune, the director of the show's debut season in 1982, the Auckland Theatre Company has powerfully realised a story that has come to embody the New Zealand view of our English ‘brothers in arms'.

ROLE PLAYED

Fred


Camino Real

THe actors program

A fading hotel on a dusty plaza existing out of time, a meeting place for lost souls facing temptation and disgust, heartbreak and love. This dreamscape is peopled with the greatest romantics of history: Casanova, Camille, Lord Byron, all warily circling each other and unable to accept their fate. Into this evocative and visceral carnival comes Kilroy, the quintessential American outsider. The Camino is rocked by his presence as he crashes against its boundaries both real and imagined.  This production caps a year at The Actors' Program working with highly regarded arts professionals, including Artistic Board members Sara Wiseman, Michael Hurst, Jennifer Ward-Lealand, Michele Hine, Cameron Rhodes, John Callen, Charlie McDermott and distinguished guests including Ian Mune, Shane Bosher, Miranda HarcourtRaymond Hawthorne, Peter Burger, Rachel Lang and Gavin Strawhan.

ROLE PLAYED

Kilroy