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PLT Newsletter - May 2025
- Porirua Little Theatre
- 2025 is our 75th anniversary This month in our history ~ May 1968 Roots In our production of Roots Jenny Frost had to take an on-stage bath. During one performance the tub of water was accidentality overturned by an overzealous stage hand. Jenny was not the only one who wore the bath water that night. Director Bob Cater was not amused. It was noted in the Kapi Mana News that "As part of the society's policy of making theatre available to as wide an audience as possible, the admission price is only 45 cents."
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ready to pitch?
- Bats Theatre
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Kia Mau Festival ‘He Ingoa’
- Circa Theatre
- As part of our He Toi Hou programme, Kia Mau Festival presents the new work He Ingoa from...
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Kia Mau Festival ‘The Aotearoans’
- Circa Theatre
- By Īhaka Martyn A recipient of Kia Mau Festival’s inaugural innovative new initiative, He Toi...
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Kia Mau Festival ‘A Master of None: Brown Fala’
- Circa Theatre
- As part of our He Toi Hou programme, Kia Mau Festival presents the new work from emerging...
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Kia Mau Festival ‘The Handlers’
- Circa Theatre
- As part of Kia Mau Festival’s He Ngaru Nui programme pou, The Handlers, written by Poata Alvie...
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Merely Beloved
- Bats Theatre
- Elaine has just lost her beloved husband, Joe, to a heart attack which she may have accidentally caused.
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We Need to Talk
- Bats Theatre
- We Need To Talk is your messy group chat come to life, where everyone gets unhinged nicknames and we talk trash while also being deeply serious.
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Laura Lexx in ‘Slinky’
- Bats Theatre
- This show is effortlessly heartwarming, hilarious about motherhood, and fearless with the front row.
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Kajun Brooking Escapes The Hood
- Bats Theatre
- Born into a neighbourhood where gangsters drink Moccona because it has more MMM, comes an epic tale of one man’s mission to escape the Hood.
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Me, My Mother and Suzy Cato
- Bats Theatre
- A tale of past demons, future hopes, and the universal struggle of the family we need versus the family we get.
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Sexwise
- Bats Theatre
- Public performance for the 2025 Sexwise touring programme.
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Everything I Need To Say About Sea Creatures
- Bats Theatre
- Australia's reigning champion of cheerful comedy, Kirsty Webeck, is coming back!
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Bringing wāhine Māori onto the stage through a PhD
- Victoria University of Wellington
- As a theatre reviewer and award-winning playwright, Tūhoe and Ngāti Kahungunu ki Te Wairoa writer Dr Maraea Rakuraku created works countering portrayals she was seeing of wāhine Māori.
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Bottom surgery
- Bats Theatre
- Enter Lily Catastrophe’s world of boys’ schools and girl failures as she explains all the parts you didn’t want to know about The Surgery.
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It’s getting hot-ene, so tell me all your jokes
- Bats Theatre
- Hoani brings his personal style of comedy in a show about finding your place and getting by in a crazy world.
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Exposé
- Bats Theatre
- Sera (or is she?) has an embarrassing secret to reveal.
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Rebellina
- Bats Theatre
- Determined to impress and positively influence her strong-willed daughter, Lesa MacLeod-Whiting is a Rebellina with a cause.
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White Man's Burden
- Bats Theatre
- Unmarried Chinese daughter, He Huang came out as a white man on stage.
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The Kapahaka Dropout
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- A fair-skinned Māori with a big mouth and bigger dreams, takes you on a wild ride through his life growing up in the hood with identity struggles to hilarious culture clashes.
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Raul Kohli: A British Hindu's Guide to the Universe
- Bats Theatre
- Raul Kohli is fluent in Hindu scripture, yoga & meditation. But having been raised British he also knows inner peace can also be found in a few beers...
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Review: Grifted & Talented
- The Wellingtonista
- Reviewed by Bethany Miller Firstly, what a brilliant premise for a comedy game show. Being one of those “gifted” kids, I was taken by the name from the start – the nostalgia of a school programme for unconventional thinkers that I realise now were probably all the oddballs and undiagnosed neurospicy types. Honestly, a lot […]
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Now open
- Circa Theatre
- Book Now!
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Don't Touch My Trinkets
- Bats Theatre
- Let me take you on a tour through my personal gallery, there’s all kinds of treasures and wares.
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Sweetie
- Bats Theatre
- Johanna Cosgrove is back and more confused than ever!
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Poofta
- Bats Theatre
- Join Viki Moananu as he attempts to brainwash you into laughing with a Poofta in this comedy musical spectacular.
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What Dreams Are Made Of
- Bats Theatre
- For the recovering Catholic millennials and anyone who had their coming-of-age movie at age 32.
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Itay Phone Home
- Bats Theatre
- A journey from immigrating to New Zealand as a teenager to a rise as a contestant on The Bachelorette NZ.
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Welcome To My Dream
- Bats Theatre
- Abby Howells takes you on a journey into her own mind.
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How Did I Get Hear? #17 - Alan Gregg on Ed Cake's "Downtown Puff"
- Slow Boat Records
- Behold the Golden Man! Some time in the mid-1990s I was sitting on a sofa in Auckland watching a Saturday morning kids’ TV show called What Now? A band came on and played a song which featured the lyric “If I go to hospital / Will you administer my pill?” I had no idea who they were, but the song was brilliant, and one of the band members appeared to have springs attached to the soles of his shoes. A few weeks later I met two members of that band, Edmund McWilliams and Geoff Maddock, at a Supergroove show at Auckland University. We talked about our shared enthusiasm for the music of Jonathan Richman, and they gave me a cassette(!) of some songs they were working on. When I got home and played the cassette it was a revelation. It contained intensely melodic songs with absurd lyrics and unusual arrangements. I felt like I’d stumbled upon some kind of secret treasure. They were pop songs, but not like anything I’d heard before. The songs on that cassette later turned into the eponymous Bressa Creeting Cake album (Flying Nun Records 1997), which is still spoken of in reverential tones in certain circles. The three piece Bressa Creeting Cake band, with Joel Wilton on drums, came on tour around New Zealand with The Mutton Birds (who I played bass with), and it felt like a privilege to watch them play these amazing songs to baffled audiences each night. By that time Edmund McWilliams was becoming better known under the moniker Edmund Cake. In 1999 Edmund and I played together in Bic Runga’s band, when she supported Paul Kelly on a tour of Australia. On that trip I saw first hand how Ed’s approach was not like other musicians I knew. At one show Bic’s band was invited to join Paul Kelly and his band onstage for their encore, and during the song Ed played Paul Kelly’s acoustic guitar with such intensity that his hand bled all over the body of the guitar. At soundcheck the next day Paul Kelly’s unimpressed guitar technician greeted Ed with the guitar and a cleaning cloth. Ed set to work making it spotless, and we weren’t invited onstage for the encore again. Bressa Creeting Cake split up around that time, and Geoff Maddock formed the band Goldenhorse, which went on to become hugely popular in New Zealand. All of this is a very longwinded way of getting to the point that after the demise of Bressa Creeting Cake, Edmund Cake made a solo album called Downtown Puff (Lil’ Chief Records 2004), which I consider to be a masterpiece. Around the time Bressa Creeting Cake ended, an A&R man from the Dreamworks record label in LA came to visit Ed in New Zealand and gave him an advance to make some demos. Ed recorded three songs and sent them to the label. After not hearing from the A&R guy for a while, Ed called him in LA to ask what he thought of the songs. He replied that they were “Quite great”. Dreamworks did not sign Edmund Cake to the label in the end, but they did sign a little-known artist named Nelly Furtado. In the meantime, Tim Finn had become a supporter of Ed’s music and lent him some recording equipment for a studio Ed had assembled in a building in Gore Street in Auckland. Neil Finn had also become a fan and gave Ed time to complete Downtown Puff in his own studio. Edmund Cake is an unusually talented songwriter. He has a gift for composing melodies and chord changes which are both surprising and breathtakingly beautiful. He’s also able to write lyrics which can be funny and strangely affecting at the same time. And he doesn’t sound like anyone else. On Downtown Puff Ed played most of the instruments, and he engineered and produced the songs himself. It’s an album that constantly treads the line between the sublime and the ridiculous, and sometimes does both at the same time. "You’re Watching Me” and “Beautiful Sleep” are ballads as melodic and effortless as any I can think of. The song "Gunga" sounds like Captain Beefheart jamming with Devo on the set of Sesame Street. “My Son the Harpist” tells the story, over an Omnichord drum beat, of a young harp player who meets a tragic end. Ed was improvising the lyrics the first time he ever recorded the vocal on that song and he never changed them. As a result, there are some spontaneous words in that song that you won’t find in any dictionary. The song “Oh Baby Bear” is the catchiest song you’ll ever hear about the Auckland Public Transport system. Ed sings “She’s got a cuppa tea and sandwich, she’s feeling fine / She just crossed the Pukapuka line,” all delivered in a fair dinkum Kiwi accent. Perhaps Downtown Puff’ s master stroke is the track “Golden Man”, which sounds a bit like a 1970s psychedelic folk band singing a gospel song. The poetic lyrics, swooping melodies and Ed’s trademark falsetto vocals all contribute to the song’s eerie beauty. “He commands the cats to claw / He commands the boats to shore / He commands the gulls to fly / He commands the crops to die”. Sometimes Edmund’s music can evoke the genius of Brian Wilson in the way he can take really unusual chord changes and make them seem completely natural in a pop song. But this music doesn’t sound like Brian Wilson. Ed often adopts different character voices for the songs. One moment he’s singing in a sweet falsetto, and in the next he’s growling like Tom Waits. Each song has a distinct vocal identity, almost reminiscent of the way Prince used completely different voices for some of his songs. But this music sounds nothing like Prince. Sometimes I wonder why the Downtown Puff album isn’t better known than it is. It certainly has some devoted fans, but I can’t help thinking more people would like it if they knew about it. For me it’s the work of a visionary musical artist, and it's a collection of songs that contains just the right balance of beauty, mystery, playfulness and outrageously good tunes. It’s also worth mentioning that Edmund Cake released another album under the name Pie Warmer a few years later called The Fearsome Feeling (2009 Lil’Chief Records), which is every bit as great as Downtown Puff. Alan Gregg last year released a superb album under the name Polite Company, entitled "Please Go Wild" - first single "Circulation" is here, we have copies on LP and CD, and his website is here
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Ahir Shah: Ends
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- A comedy show about family, immigration, marriage, history and politics.
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The Phoenix Foundation "Pegasus" Vinyl launch instore at Slow Boat!!
- Slow Boat Records
- We are thrilled to announce that we will be hosting our favourite local homeboys, The Phoenix Foundation, for an instore celebration of the first ever vinyl release of their wonderful second album, 2005’s much loved “Pegasus”, featuring such fan faves as “Hitchcock”, “Damn The River” and “Slightest Shift In The Weather”.
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May 2025 Balladeer
- Acoustic Routes
- You can download the May 2025 Balladeer here. The post May 2025 Balladeer first appeared on Acoustic Routes.
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Construction Underway on Courtenay Place
- Wellington Film Society
- As you may already be aware, Wellington City Council is working on a new pedestrian crossing between Cambridge and Kent Terrace. This may have an impact on members that use the crossing outside the Embassy Theatre. On Monday 28 April, Wellington City Council held its groundbreaking ceremony with work to begin in earnest in early […]
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