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SpECIAL EVEnT DALLOWAY
THuRSDAY MAY 14 – 2.00-3.25pM WInTERGARDEn, CIVIC
Austen’s Women’s Rebecca Vaughan returns with her latest hit: a stage adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, that Modernist mapping of interior states in the aftermath
of World War One. This five-star Edinburgh 2014 success has been hailed as accomplished and incredibly moving. Adapted and directed by Elton Townend Jones. A Dyad Production. One of four performances.
Earlybird $30; Standard $35; Patrons $28; Students $17.50.
SpECIAL FREE EVEnT
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THE unIVERSITY OF AuCkLAnD FREE puBLIC LECTuRE: pETER HOLLAnD
THuRSDAY MAY 14 – 5.00-6.00pM CLOCk TOWER 039, 22 pRInCES STREET
What do Popeye, the Dude, R2-D2 and Quentin Tarantino have in common? That would be The Bard of Avon. Notre Dame University professor Peter Holland – the University of Auckland’s 2015 Alice Griffin
Fellow in Shakespeare Studies – is fascinated by the burgeoning world of Shakespearean spin-offs, mash-ups, dramatisations and novelisations, not to mention the success authors are having turning cult films into dramas using something approximating blank verse. With hidden codes, unlikely heroes, complex puns and a gentle pillorying of scholarly efforts, these riffs lend an intriguing dimension
to pop culture’s engagements with Shakespeare.
Free entry.
SpECIAL EVEnT
nEW zEALAnD LISTEnER GALA nIGHT TRuE STORIES TOLD LIVE:
STRAIGHT TALkInG
THuRSDAY MAY 14 – 7.00-8.30pM ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CEnTRE
A riotous and engaging showcase jump-starts three days of public programming. Eight writers deliver
a seven-minute true story, propless and scriptless, inspired by the theme Straight Talking. Don’t miss this annual sellout featuring: NZ comedian and author Michele A’Court; lauded US novelist and short story writer Amy Bloom; The Good Wife star and memoirist Alan Cumming; former Wallaby, sports columnist and author Peter FitzSimons; Australian public intellectual and writer Helen Garner; Waitangi Tribunal member, lecturer and co-author of seminal book Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History Aroha Harris; Melbourne-based New Zealand short story writer Nic Low; and Booker Prize winning Nigerian novelist Ben Okri.
Earlybird $35; Standard $40; Patrons $32; Students $20.
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