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Cast and CrewCast (in order of stage position)
Greer Phillips Mycah Keall, Jane Waddell Emma Katene, Sameena Zehra Director: Carrie Green Writer: Abby Howells Set Designer: Lucas Neal Lighting Designer: Molloy Sound Designer: Oliver Devlin Costume Designer: Emma Stevens Stage Manager: Samantha Burnard Producer: Cassandra Tse Marketing Manager: James Cain Producing Intern: Jeremy Hunt Marketing Intern: Amy McLean Photographer: Roc+ Photography Make-Up: Aimee Smith, Emma Katene Graphic Designer: Aimee Sullivan |
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Presented with the support of BATS’ Co-Pro 2021
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A BIT ABOUT BATS THEATRE
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Director's Note
Hey! You all good? Man, that last lockdown sucked eh? I hope you're okay.
Getting to this point has included two postponed opening nights (the first in April 2020), hours of zoom meetings and rehearsals, dozens of contingency plans as alert levels change, a designer stuck in Auckland and the prospect of cancellation among many other headaches. Mounting White Men (lol) has been a real exercise in persistence. Though it makes it easier when you’ve got a script that’s too good to let go and a cast and crew of some of the most talented and kind people in Wellington #blessed #grateful
Holding us all the way have been Red Scare Theatre Company and I can’t thank Cassandra and James enough for their tenacity, rigour and generosity. The leadership and support from these two have meant that I’ve really been able to stretch my director legs, learn a fuck tonne and shoot my shot.
The fuckery committed by powerful white men is exhausting, frustrating and so ripe for taking the piss BUT my actual favourite thing about White Men is that it lets five actresses take all the space, be funny af and give a big middle finger to ‘the man’. Shot Abby!
Anyway, WELCOME BACK TO THE THEATRE! I don’t need to tell you how rough the pandemic has been on everyone. I mean, we’ve been trying to get in this show in front of an audience for the last 18 months!! It’s been shitty times so I guess what I’m trying to say is thank you for coming out to see us tonight. Truly.
LONG LIVE LIVE THEATRE!
#fuckthepatriarchy
– Carrie Green
Getting to this point has included two postponed opening nights (the first in April 2020), hours of zoom meetings and rehearsals, dozens of contingency plans as alert levels change, a designer stuck in Auckland and the prospect of cancellation among many other headaches. Mounting White Men (lol) has been a real exercise in persistence. Though it makes it easier when you’ve got a script that’s too good to let go and a cast and crew of some of the most talented and kind people in Wellington #blessed #grateful
Holding us all the way have been Red Scare Theatre Company and I can’t thank Cassandra and James enough for their tenacity, rigour and generosity. The leadership and support from these two have meant that I’ve really been able to stretch my director legs, learn a fuck tonne and shoot my shot.
The fuckery committed by powerful white men is exhausting, frustrating and so ripe for taking the piss BUT my actual favourite thing about White Men is that it lets five actresses take all the space, be funny af and give a big middle finger to ‘the man’. Shot Abby!
Anyway, WELCOME BACK TO THE THEATRE! I don’t need to tell you how rough the pandemic has been on everyone. I mean, we’ve been trying to get in this show in front of an audience for the last 18 months!! It’s been shitty times so I guess what I’m trying to say is thank you for coming out to see us tonight. Truly.
LONG LIVE LIVE THEATRE!
#fuckthepatriarchy
– Carrie Green
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Writer's Note
Most of the time when I have an idea for something, I just have a spark of what it might be. I spend ages planning in my notebook, writing down ideas and possible structures eventually plotting out a rough draft of what the story might look like. And most of the time the final product ends up completely different from this anyway. With WHITE MEN, I was sitting at my desk, annoyed about something, some bureaucratic red tape and I had this image of these men, standing at the top of a mountain, water rising beneath them. I started to write and the first draft of the play fell out of me, no planning necessary. I've never really written like that before or since. There's something quite extraordinary about writing something alone and then seeing it performed onstage for an audience. I'm so grateful to every member of the cast and crew of this production for the hard work and creativity they have put into bringing this show to life, especially during these difficult times.
– Abby Howells
– Abby Howells
Ngā mihi
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This show was made possible thanks to:
Carrie, Hāmi, Pearl, Stevie, Jonty and the team at BATS Theatre, The Adam Foundation, Playmarket, Hannah Smith and Ralph McCubbin-Howell, Madame Fancy Pants, Tim Fraser, Te Haukāinga, Young and Hungry, Bill Hickman and The Dominion Post, Simon Howard and Wellington Access Radio, Ox and Eddie, Eleanor Strathern and Sasha Tilly, Matthew Poppelwell, Coral Cottage, Jennifer Lal, Catherine Zulver, Sam Mence and all the shitty White Men in our lives (for the inspiration...) |
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A promenade play-with-songs performed by Red Scare Youth Theatre's inaugural company.