Preview of play 'Mary's Wedding' at Howick Little Theatre
Channel: PeterPan
Date: 2015-08-28

A DRAMA BY STEPHEN MASSICOTTE
DIRECTED BY ANTON BENTLEY

"The kind of play that makes you think, and dream"

Season Sept 12 to Oct 3, 8pm 2015
Matinees – Sept 13 and 20, 2pm

NZ premiere season of Canada’s most-performed play starring Ruby Clavey (Mary) and Joshua Bruce (Charlie).

A thunderstorm creates a chance meeting between two teenagers, both seeking shelter in the same barn in rural Canada.
She’s an English immigrant; he’s a local about to do his duty in World War I. As their love story unfolds through honest, intimate storytelling, Mary’s Wedding provides an elegant and theatrical look at life, love and war, using a captivating dreamscape to weave past and present together.

A poem, a valentine, a dream, this achingly beautiful love story tells the tale of Mary, who in dreams follows the man she loves as he rides off to war. Shimmering and lyrical, this play sweeps through you like a summer storm through a field of grass. When Mary and Charlie, filled with the passion, vulnerability, and impulsiveness of youth, unexpectedly find one another sheltering in a barn during a thunderstorm, a tentative love is born. But the year is 1914, and Mary and Charlie must surrender their love and fate to the uncertainties of their tumultuous times. A play with a heart as big as the land that serves as its backdrop, Mary’s Weddingis a wonderfully tender, poignant story of innocent first love and the vicissitudes of fate.

A sleeper hit of the Enbridge playRites Festival in 2002, it took the world by storm. Ten years later, Massicotte's play has been produced around the world, from Calgary to Washington, from Edinburgh to Perth.Winner of the 2000 Alberta Playwriting Competition, the 2002 Betty Mitchell Award for Best New Play, and the 2003 Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama at the Alberta Literary Awards.
"Puts you in the mind of the grand passion of Catherine and Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights, the vastness of their love mirroring the wild tangle of nature." —Washington Times

Music: 'The Lark Ascending' by Vaughan Williams

play produced by http://www.hlt.org.nz

Associated with http://www.brandspeak.nz