What's on at the Picton Little Theatre
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Matariki Stars
Saturday 18th July Enjoy a fun evening with a great lineup of local talent including: The Picton Belles, Highland Dancers, Ukulele Players, Queen Charlotte College Kapa Haka, the winner of Waikawa Bay School Talent Quest, PLUS LOADS MORE. Tickets $10 Adult, $5 Child/Student Available from 6pm at the door. Cash only. |
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The Daylight Atheist
Thursday 6th August An instant hit when it premiered, The Daylight Atheist by award-winning satirical cartoonist Tom Scott, stars Michael Hurst in a not-to-be-missed repertoire experience. Ageing Irish raconteur Danny Moffat retreats from the harsh light of the world to his bedroom. There, under hoardings of old newspapers and beer bottles, he sorts through a lifetime of memories and regrets, from growing up as a boy in Ireland, to the hopes and disappointments of immigration to New Zealand. Tom Scott’s wonderfully inventive and fiercely funny play is a stirring portrait of his father, a deeply flawed yet charismatic bloke. Tickets $25 + booking fee available at Eventfinda from 13 July https://www.eventfinda.co.nz/2020/daylight-atheist/picton |
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Mason, London & Joass
Friday 21st August Three songwriters argue over headline billing, playing order, and whose shout it is, while talking about themselves and playing their self-selected ’Greatest Hits’. |
Wayne Mason is something of a Kiwi icon, having won the 'song of the Century' with 'Nature', first recorded in the '60s with The Fourmyula, and covered by the Muttonbirds in the '90s. Also a founder member of Rockinghorse and The War-ratahs, Wayne now records and tours under his own name. When on the road with the Chiefs his job is to deliver philosophical profundities such as ‘music is like water - it just seeps away into the ground’.
Rob Joass leads several groups; The Shot Band, The Hard Core Troubadours, and Hobnail who recently celebrated 25 years on the road. His gritty songs are equal parts Celtic folk and country rock, with the occasional barb of satirical humour betraying a cynical perspective on the human condition honed by dec-ades of constant touring through the highways and back roads Europe, Canada and NZ. Rob calls this ‘repeatedly smashing myself up against a wall’.
Andrew London tours and records with his own trio, imaginatively named The Andrew London Trio. He was previously Chief of swing trio Hot Club Sandwich, whose repertoire consisted mostly of Andrew's whimsical, humourous and satiri-cal ditties. He was also assistant Chief of Kapiti's 'Cattlestops', a five-piece coun-try band whose Tui-nominated album 'Back to Rosetta Road' provided much of the soundtrack to the movie 'Second Hand Wedding'.
Mates on the road rolling out top quality songwriting and musicianship, with lash-ings of irony and humour. - East Auckland Times
Tickets $20 + booking fee - available at Eventfinda https://www.eventfinda.co.nz/2020/mason-london-joass/picton
Rob Joass leads several groups; The Shot Band, The Hard Core Troubadours, and Hobnail who recently celebrated 25 years on the road. His gritty songs are equal parts Celtic folk and country rock, with the occasional barb of satirical humour betraying a cynical perspective on the human condition honed by dec-ades of constant touring through the highways and back roads Europe, Canada and NZ. Rob calls this ‘repeatedly smashing myself up against a wall’.
Andrew London tours and records with his own trio, imaginatively named The Andrew London Trio. He was previously Chief of swing trio Hot Club Sandwich, whose repertoire consisted mostly of Andrew's whimsical, humourous and satiri-cal ditties. He was also assistant Chief of Kapiti's 'Cattlestops', a five-piece coun-try band whose Tui-nominated album 'Back to Rosetta Road' provided much of the soundtrack to the movie 'Second Hand Wedding'.
Mates on the road rolling out top quality songwriting and musicianship, with lash-ings of irony and humour. - East Auckland Times
Tickets $20 + booking fee - available at Eventfinda https://www.eventfinda.co.nz/2020/mason-london-joass/picton
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Hopetoun Brown
Saturday 10th October Hopetoun Brown light up the night, their antique wind instruments shrieking wildly, evoking the spirit of New Orleans funeral processions or futuristic funk jams. |
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This is Supergroove’s horn section. Expect electric pianos, vibraphones and a van load of horns playing deep down bass lines and jumping sax licks like you’ve never heard! These New Zealand Music Hall of Fame inductees adore rare and antique acoustic instruments such the vibraphone and the bass clarinet, while embracing the bombastic power of the tuba, the tenor saxophone, trombones and multiple trumpets. They’ve teamed up with Finn Scholes, arguably one of the finest improvisers currently playing trumpet in New Zealand to form a unique and musically diverse act that can be at once tender and soulful while at times, anarchic and heavy.
Details to be confirmed.
Details to be confirmed.
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Rail Land
Saturday 7th November A journey of the mind, through song and story, about New Zealand’s on-and-off again love affair with passenger rail. |
Equal parts tragedy, comedy, and personal memoir, Rail Land is a theatrical show that weaves the critically acclaimed songs of Anthonie Tonnon with synthesizer soundscapes, and soliloquy like story-telling. Along with touches like historical letters to the editor, and meticulous notes on taking Aotearoa’s surviving public railways, Rail Land is a story of human enterprise, sabotage, obsession and hope.
The show also travels with an exhibition of historic NZ Rail Advertising Department posters and schematic maps, blown up to large scale.
Details to be confirmed.
The show also travels with an exhibition of historic NZ Rail Advertising Department posters and schematic maps, blown up to large scale.
Details to be confirmed.
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