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music and emotional resonances that will stay with you long after the curtain fa...
Brass Poppies
11 - 12 March Mercury Theatre Set in the streets of Wellington and the slopes of Gallipoli, this new chamber opera layers action and dialogue, music and dance to tell the story of Chunuk Bair. shortlist
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March 2016
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    • 8:00pm
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    • 8:00pm
…one of those rare shows that equally delights toddlers and their parents, and r...
Duck, Death and the Tulip (PumpHouse Theatre)
5 - 6 March The PumpHouse Theatre A beautiful puppet-show about an unlikely friendship between a playful duck and a mysterious character, this is an award winning adaptation of Wolf Erlbruch’s beloved book. shortlist
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March 2016
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    • 1:00pm
    • 5:00pm
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    • 11:00am
    • 2:00pm
instil[s] a sense of wonder in her audience
Waves
9 - 13 March Q Loft Beguiling storytelling for the whole family, in Waves Elizabeth Moncello, inventor of the butterfly stroke, learns to swim with the help of fish, penguins and other amphibian friends. shortlist
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March 2016
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    • 6:30pm
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    • 4:00pm
…one of those rare shows that equally delights toddlers and their parents, and r...
Duck, Death and the Tulip
11 - 13 March Q Loft A beautiful puppet-show about an unlikely friendship between a playful duck and a mysterious character, this is an award winning adaptation of Wolf Erlbruch’s beloved book. shortlist
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March 2016
  • 11
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    • 6:30pm
  • 12
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    • 1:00pm
  • 13
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    • 1:00pm
Smart, original, refreshing and maybe even necessary
Tar Baby (TE POU Theatre)
TE POU Theatre, New Lynn In this carnival of race and capitalism, Huffington Post’s ‘Favorite Female Comedian’ Desiree Burch brings her Edinburgh Fringe award-winning show to Auckland, challenging the notion of a post-racial America. shortlist
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Smart, original, refreshing and maybe even necessary
Tar Baby
3 - 6 March Spiegeltent, Aotea Square In this carnival of race and capitalism, Huffington Post’s ‘Favorite Female Comedian’ Desiree Burch brings her Edinburgh Fringe award-winning show to Auckland, challenging the notion of a post-racial America. shortlist
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March 2016
  • 03
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    • 9:30pm
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    • 9:30pm
  • 06
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    • 5:00pm
From the lush, green, tea estates of Sri Lanka to a distant future...
RAW: TEA
Q Loft TEA is a sweeping saga which travels over a thousand years and continents to weave a tale of legacies, prophecies, love and the world's most popular beverage. shortlist
A kind of 'Orange is the New Black' if it was directed by Alfred Hitchcock...
RAW: Cell Fish
Q Loft A black comedy-come-psychological thriller, Cell Fish explores the inside workings of a New Zealand prison and the inside workings of the minds of the incarcerated. shortlist
Black Tree Bridge is written by Chye-Ling Huang, an exciting, young and ambitiou...
RAW: Black Tree Bridge
Q Loft Black Tree Bridge is written by Chye-Ling Huang, an exciting, young and ambitious new voice in theatre-making. shortlist
New immersive theatre work, based on the much-loved legend Hinemoa and Tutanekai...
RAW: Hinemoa and Tutanekai
5 March Q Loft This new immersive theatre work, based on the much-loved legend Hinemoa and Tutanekai challenges the boundaries of conventional theatre. shortlist
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March 2016
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    • 3:00pm
Encounter the sacred beauty of the forests of Fiji, the Solomons, Samoa and Aote...
Marama
2 - 6 March Q Rangatira Through waiata, chants, dances and rituals gracefully and magically performed, Marama creates a powerful call from Pacific women about the devastating effects of deforestation on their homelands. shortlist
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March 2016
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    • 8:00pm
  • 03
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    • 6:30pm
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theatre that goes to the heart of who we are
Not in our Neighbourhood
2 - 4 March Q Loft Gripping documentary theatre that takes a close look behind the mask of domestic violence and reveals the despair, the pain and the hope that lie there. shortlist
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March 2016
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    • 6:30pm
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    • 8:00pm
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    • 6:30pm