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Toi Whakaari NZ Drama School
The leading educator of screen, stage and event professionals in New Zealand.
Toi Whakaari aspires to be one of the great performing arts schools of the world while developing a teaching practice that is uniquely New Zealand.
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The Antigone Sound
Monday, 29 May 2017, 4:23 pm | Toi Whakaari NZ Drama School
Toi Whakaari are proud to announce their term 2 productions, The Antigone Sound and Black Confetti. The Antigone Sound features graduating third year actors collaborating with staff, former staff and graduates of the school. The creative and production ... More >>
Toi Whakaari welcomes 2017 Toi Film directors
Wednesday, 15 March 2017, 4:53 pm | Toi Whakaari NZ Drama School
Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School are pleased to announce that this year’s Toi Films are to be helmed by three celebrated Kiwi directors: Florian Habicht, Jonathan King and Michelle Savill. More >>
A bed time poem for our time.
Monday, 10 October 2016, 4:24 pm | Toi Whakaari NZ Drama School
A devised comedy. A good night. A fable. A portent. A bed time poem for our time. More >>
Hotel Europa
Tuesday, 31 May 2016, 9:20 am | Toi Whakaari NZ Drama School
Award-winning theatre director Anna Marbrook spotlights the Syrian refugee crisis in a new theatrical production of Hotel Europa with students from Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School. More >>
Dying For It
Tuesday, 31 May 2016, 9:18 am | Toi Whakaari NZ Drama School
World-renowned theatre director John Bolton comes to Wellington to direct a new show with students from Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School, that uses clowning to underpin more serious themes of social injustice. Dying for It - An outrageous ... More >>
A contemporary take on Bertolt Brecht’s anti-war play
Thursday, 15 October 2015, 10:08 am | Toi Whakaari NZ Drama School
Meet the Mothers Courage – business people thriving off war, scavenging and selling goods to all the troops. Follow their journey across 23 years through Romania, Chechnya, Georgia, Iraq and Ukraine. More >>
Pains of Youth and Woyzeck double bill
Thursday, 28 May 2015, 12:34 pm | Toi Whakaari NZ Drama School
Two of the most groundbreaking plays from the German theatre scene are coming to Wellington. A startling script from writer Ferdinand Bruckner in 1929 titled Pains of Youth , and Woyzeck that was born in the hands of dramatist Georg Büchner in ... More >>
Artist in Residence programme welcomes
Tuesday, 3 February 2015, 12:29 pm | Toi Whakaari NZ Drama School
Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School and the Goethe-Institut New Zealand, supported by the Wellington City Council, are excited to announce the participation of German director and educational theatre practitioner Uta Plate in the Goethe-Institut New ... More >>
Emma Ransley exhibiting at Critical Costume 2015
Tuesday, 3 February 2015, 12:26 pm | Toi Whakaari NZ Drama School
Critical Costume is a research project led by Dr. Rachel Hann and Sidsel Bech on the status of costume practices within contemporary art and performance. Building upon an emerging interest in the dramaturgical significance of costume within the ... More >>
INTO THE WOODS, experience it live before the movies
Thursday, 16 October 2014, 10:24 am | Toi Whakaari NZ Drama School
Before Into the Woods arrives as a Disney film you can experience it live in Newtown this month. The Stephen Sondheim musical, based on the book by James Lapine, is directed by Toi Whakaari alumnus Cameron Rhodes with musical direction by Mark Dorrell. More >>
Toi Whakaari 2014 season of Go Solo commences
Wednesday, 17 September 2014, 3:40 pm | Toi Whakaari NZ Drama School
Grab your chance to see the next generation of performers from Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School in action as the fifteen final year Acting students strut their stuff. More >>
As You Like It
Thursday, 12 June 2014, 9:36 am | Toi Whakaari NZ Drama School
Shakespeare’s popular pastoral comedy is brought to life in the Basement Theatre of Te Whaea. More >>
Go Solo 2013: To the Outback, and beyond!
Tuesday, 24 September 2013, 5:05 pm | Toi Whakaari NZ Drama School
Where else can you be transported from a trip to the Outback into the industrial heart of Monochrome City, or jump from a family camping trip to a South Auckland Story? More >>
Earthquakes in London
Wednesday, 31 July 2013, 11:12 am | Toi Whakaari NZ Drama School
Disturbance, disconnection, fractured family relationships and an uncertain future. Mike Bartlett’s play jolts our reality and then challenges us to engage with it. More >>
A courtroom drama like no other
Monday, 15 October 2012, 6:59 pm | Toi Whakaari NZ Drama School
Between Heaven and Hell, the court in Hope, downtown Purgatory, has one of its most infamous defendants up on appeal, Judas Iscariot - the disciple who betrayed Jesus. With a cast of characters including saints, sinners, a high priest, a Roman governor, ... More >>
400 buttons, 900m of rope and Something to Say...
Tuesday, 31 July 2012, 12:36 pm | Toi Whakaari NZ Drama School
It sounds like the beginning of a dodgy joke: a South African Director walks into the New Zealand Drama School to direct an Australian play containing 400 buttons and nearly a kilometre of rope. More >>
Everybody’s Got the Right... To Kill a President?
Wednesday, 25 July 2012, 11:57 am | Toi Whakaari NZ Drama School
Everybody’s Got the Right... To Kill a President? Media Release: 25 July 2012 “Many of us Kiwis don’t buy into the American Dream. But somehow it remains an abiding myth in the USA, so much so that some would go as far as to assassinate a ... More >>
Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School Takes On Dark Children’s Novel
Wednesday, 25 July 2012, 9:19 am | Toi Whakaari NZ Drama School
Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School Graduating Production Takes On Stage Adaptation Of Award-Winning, Dark Children’s Novel Michael finds a tramp-like creature in the garden shed. He appears to be dying, so Michael becomes determined to save him. But ... More >>
Is there any place so lewd as Lady London?
Friday, 12 August 2011, 8:01 pm | Te Whaea National Dance and Drama Centre
“Is there any place so lewd as Lady London?” It is the 400th anniversary this year of one of the first great feminist plays: The Roaring Girl by Middleton and Dekker, which is being presented in a sumptuous new production for the first time ... More >>
Emerging Actors Go It Alone
Tuesday, 5 July 2011, 9:38 am | Toi Whakaari NZ Drama School
Toi Whakaari third year acting students present this year’s annual season of Go Solo from Monday 11 – Saturday 23 July at Te Whaea: National Dance and Drama Centre. The show will comprise 16 new solo shows created and performed by the final year ... More >>
