Doors open 6.30pm. Show starts 7pm
Tickets $20 from Hokitika’s Regent Theatre, or online at hokitikaregent.com (plus booking fee)
As autumn turns to winter, Hokitika Dramatic Society takes it upon themselves to keep you warm and cosy with four evenings of hilarious one-act plays, plus delicious brownies and mocktails for you to purchase. We have prepared for you a trio of short plays that are bound to leave you in stitches:
Bad Auditions By Bad Actors by Ian McWethy.
A casting director has one day to find the leads for a community theater production of Romeo and Juliet. But what seems like a simple task proves impossible when the pool of hopeful actors is apalling. This hilarious comedy will bring you to the last place you’d ever want to be … behind the doors of a casting session.
Starring Lisa Reinhardt, Scott Matthews, Suze Harris, Don Neale, Tasha Day, Bron Rodda, Ino Keldermann
Love Struck by Elizabeth Robertshaw.
A comic take on the Bond genre with Russian spies, double identities and more puns than you can shake a martini at. The setting is Cupid’s Corner a 70’s TV dating show with bachelorettes, a prize bachelor, and sleazy host, Guy Valentine.
Starring Patrick Phelps, Brooke Mellsop, Susan Prendergast, Elmo Young, Gecko Jordan, Lee Hutchison
Promageddon by Dan Dietz.
When a nuclear apocalypse hits on prom night, there are only four survivors. Trapped in a high-school basement, these kids are forced to socialize with the very people they wouldn’t have been caught dead with just hours earlier. A hilarious dark comedy about the end of the world — and what comes next.
Starring Siobhan Thornley, Sam Nicholls, Jeannelize Diplock, Rishjarn Hereaka, and Lily Day