Man Drought Explored Through Comedy at Circa

Man Drought Explored Through Comedy at Circa

“…generously endowed with humour, nimble wit and assured audience appeal” – Theatreview The man drought describes a real phenomenon happening in New Zealand today: there are currently 52,000 more women than men, in the 25-49 age group. Pip Hall’s Ache is a modern-day romantic comedy about two thirty-somethings navigating their way through this dating drought with all of its pitfalls and potential for catastrophe.

Ache was winner of the 2012 Pump Theatre Award, and Lyndee-Jane Rutherford, will be directing the Wellington premiere this October, after a sold-out season at The Court Theatre in Christchurch. She directs an acclaimed cast including Chapman Tripp theatre award-winning actor Renée Lyons and Shortland Street’s Amy Usherwood, both returning to Wellington for the production.

“Everyone’s got ‘the one that got away’, everyone has experienced loving someone and not being able to be with them, so I thought that was a powerful place to start a play,” says writer, Pip Hall.

Ache delves into the reality of finding love, escaping the clichés and assumptions of the traditional romantic comedy, looking at how life really is, when timing isn’t so kind and the stars aren’t quite aligned.

From the director who brought you Midsummer (a play with songs), Miss Brontë and The Mystery of Edwin Drood: achingly funny and heart-breakingly sad, Ache is a modern story of love, timing and seizing the day.

“[A] modern-day romantic comedy made effortlessly unique by honesty.” – The Christchurch Press STARRING: Renée Lyons, Richard Dey, Amy Usherwood and Jack Buchanan Ache plays at the Circa Theatre, 1 Taranaki Street, Wellington from 24 October - 21 November.

Performance times: Tuesday – Saturday, 7.30pm, Sunday 4.30pm Tickets: $25 - 46 from www.circa.co.nz or by calling 04 801 7992

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