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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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Upcoming Production of Shakespeare's Hamlet
Thursday, 30 June 2011, 3:25 pm | Toi Whakaari NZ Drama School
Hamlet, Shakespeare’s most performed play worldwide, is to be staged in Wellington for the first time in five years. Melanie Camp will direct the play as part of her Master of Theatre Arts degree at Toi Whakaari and Victoria University. Performed ... More >>
I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change
Monday, 29 November 2010, 3:03 pm | Toi Whakaari NZ Drama School
I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change Book and Lyrics by Joe DiPietro / Music by Jimmy Roberts More >>
Wellington talent wins prestigious scholarship
Thursday, 11 November 2010, 10:50 am | Toi Whakaari NZ Drama School
Leon Wadham, a second year student at Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School has been awarded the prestigious Museum Hotel Scholarship for 2010. More >>
Change Of Direction At Toi Whakaari
Friday, 5 November 2010, 4:54 pm | Toi Whakaari NZ Drama School
Change Of Direction At Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School After 14 years as the Director of Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School, Annie Ruth has recently announced that she will be stepping down from the post in May 2011. Annie, a graduate of Toi Whakaari (Diploma ... More >>
Opening: Toi Whakaari Graduation Season
Wednesday, 20 October 2010, 3:55 pm | Toi Whakaari NZ Drama School
This year Toi Whakaari’s Graduation Season consists of two productions: The Pohutukawa Tree by Bruce Mason and Wild Cabbage by James Beaumont. In these productions the third year actors take centre stage at the School for final time before their Graduation ... More >>
Toi Whakaari Graduation Season 2010
Wednesday, 13 October 2010, 9:06 am | Toi Whakaari NZ Drama School
This year Toi Whakaari's Graduation Season consists of two productions: The Pohutukawa Tree by Bruce Mason and Wild Cabbage by James Beaumont. In these productions the third year actors take centre stage at the School for final time before their Graduation ... More >>
Helen Clark - New Patron Of Toi Whakaari
Wednesday, 15 September 2010, 3:12 pm | Toi Whakaari NZ Drama School
The Rt.Hon. Helen Clark, ONZ is Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School’s new Patron. Ms Clarke, currently Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme and past Prime Minister of New Zealand, is well-known for her support of the arts. On a recent ... More >>
NZ Drama School Regional Audition Dates
Wednesday, 11 August 2010, 12:34 pm | Toi Whakaari NZ Drama School
Applications are now open for study in 2011 at Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School. The deadline for the Bachelor of Performing Arts (Acting) course is Monday 16 August after which the School’s representatives travel around the country to see applicants ... More >>
Toi Whakaari Presents Marat/Sade
Tuesday, 10 August 2010, 5:00 pm | Toi Whakaari NZ Drama School
Marat/Sade is regarded as one of the definitive works of 20th Century drama. Influences of Artaud and Brecht lie at the heart of this revolutionary piece where the cast play the inmates of Charenton, the asylum presided over by the Marquis de Sade. More >>
NZ Drama School is Making History – Literally
Friday, 11 June 2010, 5:18 pm | Toi Whakaari NZ Drama School
Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School celebrates its 40th Anniversary this year. As part of the yearlong celebration the students and staff of the School have been working on putting together a Time Capsule, which will take greetings from the current Toi ... More >>
Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School Is 40!
Wednesday, 26 May 2010, 12:52 pm | Toi Whakaari NZ Drama School
This year Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School celebrates its 40th Anniversary with a tantalising birthday programme of productions, events, workshops and a new Conversation Series. More >>
Toi Whakaari: Nz Drama School Is 40
Thursday, 11 March 2010, 2:25 pm | Toi Whakaari NZ Drama School
This year Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School celebrates its 40th Anniversary with a tantalising birthday programme of productions, events, workshops and a new Conversation Series. More >>
How to Breathe!
Thursday, 26 November 2009, 3:20 pm | Toi Whakaari NZ Drama School
There is something you do approximately 18 times per minute, 1,080 times an hour and 25,920 times a day – and you don't even think about it: breathing. If you do think about your breath, it's probably only when you're running out of it. And that ... More >>
Bite Size Theatre: Explosion!
Monday, 7 September 2009, 1:01 pm | Toi Whakaari NZ Drama School
Bite Size Theatre is a contemporary theatre project and first public production in Wellington by Sebastian Sommer (artistic director, producer) as part of his Master of Theatre Arts in Directing (MTA) at Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School and ... More >>
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Thursday, 13 August 2009, 11:17 am | Te Whaea National Dance and Drama Centre
Come into an erotic underworld of circus and wantonness; of transformation and desire in a world where the boundaries of reality and imagination merge into an arena you might not have expected More >>
Go Solo 2009
Wednesday, 15 July 2009, 3:02 pm | Toi Whakaari NZ Drama School
Go Solo 2009 presents the exciting future of Kiwi theatre with nineteen new New Zealand solo shows created and performed by third year actors from Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School. As usual this year’s Solos are hugely varied. We go from the sandy shores ... More >>
AoTERRORoa - 100%PURE
Saturday, 18 October 2008, 2:09 pm | Toi Whakaari NZ Drama School
Backseat Driver Productions, as part of the Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School's Graduation Season 2008, proudly present aoTERRORoa, an absurdest farce inspired by the New Zealand Terrorism Suppression Act and the arrests of the 'Urewera Seventeen' ... More >>
Pandemic In Newtown
Monday, 13 October 2008, 11:26 am | Toi Whakaari NZ Drama School
Click for big version Julia Croft Year 3 Acting student at Toi Whakaaari: NZ Drama School, embodies the fear and paranoia of small town Unity (1918). Photograher Philip Merry More >>
Shakespeare Season: Macbeth & The Tempest
Wednesday, 13 August 2008, 1:18 pm | Toi Whakaari NZ Drama School
The Toi Whakaari Shakespeare Season Something wicked this way comes . . . Toi Whakaari’s creative team of acting, costume, technical and management students present two of Shakespeare’s most popular plays, The Tempest and Macbeth at Te Whaea: National ... More >>
The Illusion by Tony Kushner
Wednesday, 18 June 2008, 2:58 pm | Toi Whakaari NZ Drama School
Inspired by commedia dell’ arte and French neo-classicism, this production of Kushner’s adaptation of Pierre Corneille’s seventeenth Century L'Illusion comique , offers a feast of theatricality: of wild characters, outrageous costumes, music and laughter. ... More >>
