Arts On Tour NZ dramatic line up for 2014

Arts On Tour NZ dramatic line up for 2014

Too Far from Heaven, Munted, Nick an Accidental Hero and more - AOTNZ 2014 touring programme

Another year of touring top New Zealand performers throughout the country – and six theatrical performances make up the bulk of next year’s drama and music offering from Arts On Tour NZ.

Coming up in March 2014, AOTNZ tours Too Far from Heaven, an original play based on the life and death of the notorious Southland baby farmer, Minnie Dean, and Victor Spencer, shot for desertion in World War 1. Too Far from Heaven was nominated in the Best Theatre Category, Best Newcomer and Stand–out Performer awards in the 2013 NZ Fringe Festival.

In May, Wheel of Experience, a show of epic original songs and stories unearthed from the ‘wild west’ of NZ history is performed by David Ward (Krishnan’s Dairy, Guru of Chai), Peter Daube (Stories Told To Me By Girls) and Dave Kahn (Don McGlashan Band).

Neither musical nor theatrical experience come any more astonishing than the Wheel of Experience…..You hear about good performers bringing songs to life…but in this case the songs seem to have given life to the performers. - Nick Bollinger

Next up in June, Penny Ashton offers Promise and Promiscuity, a musical that brings Jane Austen up to date with all the sense and sensuality that audiences expect from this amply accomplished performer.

Promise and Promiscuity is a fast-paced romp that entertains from the opening scene to the hilarious final bow.-Theatreview

The July tour features Nick, An Accidental Hero, based on a true story of a young man who overcomes ‘locked in syndrome’ after a stroke on the rugby field. Written and performed by Renee Lyons, Nick, An Accidental Hero was performed in the prestigious Assembly Theatre in the 2013 Edinburgh Festival.

Munted, a verbatim documentary response to the February 2011 Canterbury earthquake, relies entirely on interviews with people caught up in the quake. Three performers bring the words of 15 people to life on stage for this AOTNZ August offering.

And in September, A Cabaret features country singer songwriter Mel Parsons in tandem with Samoan/Welsh stand-up comic James Nokise. Drawing on his earlier experience of being kicked out of a youth gang, Nokise combines inside knowledge with a worldly perspective in Soso Gangster, his unique comic take on NZ gang culture.

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