| Tawa Community
Theatre Packing them in for 50 Years! |
| Patrons | Ray Henwood & Rose Hudson |
| President | Ross Pedder rpedder@xtra.co.nz |
| Vice-President | Brian Hudson brirose@xtra.co.nz |
| Secretary | Rose Hudson brirose@xtra.co.nz |
| Treasurer | Tim Gruar tim_gruar@yahoo.com |
| Committee Members | Barbara Smith, Jan Pritchard |
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BOOKINGS 04 232 3711 (24 Hr Answerphone) |
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| A Little About us ... | |
| The Tawa Community Theatre is an incorporated
society which has been active in the area since 1953. Our society is
community based and non-profit making, with a commitment to
providing equal opportunities for as many people as possible to
perform on stage regardless of age and previous experience.
As well as an adult membership, we have a ongoing children's and young person's theatre which features tuition in music, dance, and theatre crafts, with a full-length stage show each year. |
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| Tawa Community Theatre has a
history of high quality, award-winning, productions, and in 1998
reached the NZ National Finals of the NZ Theatre Federation's
one-act play festival in Palmerston North, with the musical
melodrama "Unhand Me Squire". This was repeated in 1999 at
the NZ National Finals in Taupo with "Behind the Beyond".
We made history in 1999 with our election year production of 'L'il
Abner'.
Our performance in the Beehive, to coincide with the visit to NZ of President Clinton, and the opening of APEC, was the first amateur production to be staged there in front of a live audience. President Clinton was unable to attend either at the Beehive, or in our theatre in Tawa, because of the limitations of the runway at Wellington airport made it impossible to land Air Force 1 there.In 2000 we made history with the first performance of a play in the Legislative Council Chamber in Parliament. This production of 'Soldier's Song' by the NZ playwright Campbell Smith was performed to coincide with the passing of the bill to pardon soldiers executed during WW1. |
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