You ruined my life!
Make it all up to your teenager by bringing them to Jumpy at Fortune Theatre.
Jumpy by April De Angelis explores the agonies of generational conflict with sometimes excruciating but always hilarious results. What better play to see with your teenager?
So we thought it befitting to create a special Bring Your Teenager to the Theatre Night. Because we’re sure your teenager is costing you quite enough already, there will be a special inclusive rate of $45 for you and your teenager and $10 for each additional teen (since, as one character in Jumpy points out, teenagers tend to “move in packs”).
There will be a chance to mix with other parents and teenagers in the Fortune bar before the show, where you will be given fabulous goodie bags and be in to win spot prizes.
Please call Maureen O’Brien at the Box Office - and ask to book for the Parent and Teen night on Wednesday 30 July at 7:30.
Hilary: You’ll see it differently soon.
Tilly: I won’t.
Hilary: In a year even.
Tilly: No.
Hilary: When you’re my age.
Tilly: I’ll be dead by then… When I’m that old!
Fair Warning: Parents and teenagers will be sitting together while there is swearing, nudity, burlesque, talk of teen pregnancy, bad behavior and a loud noise.
JUMPY
Written by April De Angelis
Running Time Approx. 2 hours 15 minutes (including interval)
Venue Fortune Theatre Mainstage, 231 Stuart Street, Dunedin
Directed by Shane Bosher
Cast Rima Te Wiata, Stephen Butterworth, Lauren Gibson, Hillary Halba, Nathan Mudge, Jon Pheloung, Barbara Power,
Jordon Selwyn and Priyanka Xi
Performances 7.30pm, WEDNESDAY 30 JULY, 2014
Tickets SPECIAL PARENT TEEN NIGHT $45 (One adult and one teen), additional teens $10 p/p
Bookings Fortune Theatre, 231 Stuart Street, DunedinBox Office or visit fortunetheatre.co.nz
For further information, imagery or interview/photo opportunities please contact:
Shannon Colbert, Education Liaison Officer
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FANTASTIC 40TH
From Friday evening's comedy and costume event at Toitu Otago Settlers Museum through to a high tea with Roger Hall on Sunday afternoon, the Fortune Theatre's 40th Anniversary weekend was fantastic.
Other events over the weekend included forums for both actors and playwrights, who discussed the future of theatre craft, and a star-studded gala evening on Saturday that culminated in a special performance of Jumpy by April De Angelis, directed by Shane Bosher.
Thank you to all the patrons, members, staff and volunteers who made the weekend such a sucess.
MARVELLOUSLY INVENTIVE
CAT VS DOG
Written and directed by Dan Bain
Dunedin season directed by Simon Goudie
Reviewed by Terry MacTavish, Theatreview 13 Jul 2014
“They're best friends if anyone else intrudes,” their loving grandmother confides, “But much of the time they really do fight like cat and dog!” Which, of course, makes my guests, brothers Oliver (7) and Harry (5), the perfect target audience for Dan Bain's latest school holiday charmer, Cat vs Dog.
Their mother has the boys well in hand, however, and it's hard to believe they could be anything like the aggressive pets on stage, who are competing furiously for the attentions of kindly old Grandma. Gran succeeds in allotting Cat and Dog equal patting rights, but as soon as she leaves the room or nods off, it is all-out war.
Having previously reviewed Bain's delicious A Paintbox Full of Clowns, I know what to expect: no words at all, just marvellously inventive movement to bouncy music and amusing sound effects. (Though again I find myself wishing the music was live: where is Danny Still when you need him?) Without words, the play is more comical and cartoon-like, while the message, about getting along together, has more subtlety, and yet reaches even the stroppiest of quarrelsome siblings. Read more...
CRASHINGLY FUNNY AND DISTURBING
Reviewed by Barbara Frame, Otago Daily Times
Greenham Common veteran Hilary is now in her fifties and clinging to feminism, literacy, education and the power of reason. Teenage daughter Tilly – determinedly vapid, hedonistic and rude – couldn't be more different.
Playwright April de Angelis has brilliantly contrasted 1980s feminist idealism with today's television and Facebook-influenced superficiality, and Jumpy is an abrasive comedy with icy bleakness at its core.
Director Shane Bosher emphasises the play's discord with a smart pace, loud, jarring music and edgy lighting. Maryanne Wright-Smyth's costumes precisely indicate each character's place in society and character type, Tilly's extreme outfits clashing with Hilary's more sensible attire. Read more...
JUMPY: Laughing hard as hard questions are asked
Reviewed by Terry MacTavish-Theatreview
I may not be a parent but I work with adolescents and I know all too well that hideous moment when the child who has trusted and respected you suddenly looks at you with the cold, hard eyes of a contemptuous stranger. In Jumpy, April De Angelis confronts this universal domestic crisis boldly, not hiding the crucial part sex plays in both the rift and the expression of it. It is a splendid choice for the winter of the Fortune's 40th year.
De Angelis is a cracker playwright who can be both profound and funny, and the Fortune production does her full justice, beginning by importing the much-lauded ex-director of Silo Theatre, Shane Bosher. He has his large cast of nine seasoned actors zooming round the stage with the smoothness of well-directed traffic, efficiently carrying out the many complicated set changes as well as playing their parts with apparently confident ease.
