Isaac Theatre Royal and Hagley Theatre School are proud to launch the inaugural Winter Season of the Six-Month Theatre Creation Course under the direction of Dr Pedro Ilgenfritz. Two exciting new works will be presented as a double bill in the Gloucester Room of the Isaac Theatre Royal from June 26-28. 

 

The Meeting 

The night will begin with The Meeting by Lola Houghton & Pedro Ilgenfritz, where a top secret, future-defining meeting is about to take place. Three personal assistants struggle to make the necessary arrangements.

Subversive and snappy, the circus of civil affairs in Aotearoa is brought to life with humour and vitality in this farcical one-woman political satire. 

Lola transforms into seven characters, running circles around each other in an hour of zany, action-packed chaos!  

 

E Ipo, My Love

There’s all this history… but there’s also me and you.

After a brief intermission, we then invite you to watch E Ipo, My Love by Gisele Proud & Tane Te Pakeke-Patterson, an honest, heartfelt and at times hilarious look at what it is to be a Māori and Pākehā couple in Aotearoa New Zealand. Inspired by historical accounts, interviews with couples, and their own experiences of being together, Tane and Gisele pull back the curtain on bicultural relationships in a nation with “one of the best race relations in the world”. 

E Ipo, My Love invites you to navigate both the uncomfortable and the uplifting alongside a young couple who are still trying to figure it out for themselves.

 

Double Bill - Winter Season tickets | Gloucester Room, Isaac Theatre Royal | Ticketek New Zealand