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Playmarket Manukau City Metro Playreading Series
Media Release
22 March 2010
Playmarket Manukau City Metro Playreading Series
The PLAYMARKET METRO PLAYREADING
SERIES kicks off on April 15th with a reading of Raising the
Titanics, a new work by celebrated playwright by Albert
Belz.
PLAYMARKET, with the support of MANUKAU CREATIVE
COMMUNITIES and MANUKAU CITY COUNCIL is pleased to launch
the PLAYMARKET METRO SERIES.
This series of Playreadings, held at the Metro Theatre, celebrate the enormous talent of Maori and Pacific writers, actors and practitioners’ that hail from, reside, or work in Manukau City.
Established and emerging playwrights share their work with Manukau audiences, recognising the high quality and incredible talent coming out of Manukau City and encouraging new voices to step centre stage.
Albert Belz is excited to be able to present his latest work, a magical showpiece that journeys from the present day, back to the golden age of the Maori show band era to reveal what really sunk the Titanics, the greatest Maori show band never to have existed. Somewhere beneath the oceans of music, mirth and memory lies the truth.
The work, commissioned by SmackBang Theatre Company, has cast Tama Waipara, Fran Kora (Kora), Bronwyn Turei (GO Girls), Wesley Dowdell (Whero’s New Net, Outrageous Fortune) and Faye Smyth (Shortland Street).
Belz had this to say about the PLAYREADING SERIES
“As a writer who has spent most of his life living in Manukau I am well aware of the huge amount of artistic endeavour and potential that brims within the region in all forms of the art…. I know from my own experience that I had to hunt for opportunities outside of Manukau city in order to launch my career as a professional writer. I’m certain that encouraging local writers to develop and produce their works within Manukau City can only be a very good thing for all theatre practitioners of the Auckland art scene.”
The PLAYMARKET METRO
PLAYREADING SERIES begins
Thursday April 15
6.30pm
-9pm
METRO THEATRE (MANGERE EAST)
with
Raising the
Titanics
By Albert Belz
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