School Matinees at The Court Theatre happen multiple times each year and offer the chance for groups to attend with their school during the week at a special discounted rate.
Upcoming School Matinees
Paradise or the Impermanence of Ice Cream
Written by Jacob Rajan and Justin Lewis
Performed by Jacob Rajan and Jon Coddington
Genre: Sentimental/Aotearoa/Puppetry
Recommended age: 13+
School matinee: 11am Friday 20 September 2024
Run time: 1 hour 20 minutes (no interval)
Having enchanted audiences in North America and at the Sydney Festival, The Court Theatre is delighted to welcome the latest production from legendary Aotearoa theatre company, Indian Ink: Paradise or the Impermanence of Ice Cream.
Take a wild ride to paradise with Indian Ink’s powerful new play about impermanence – of life, love… and ice cream! This glorious production is inspired by Ernest Becker’s Pulitzer prize-winning book, Denial of Death, and the vibrant, life–filled chaos of India’s most cosmopolitan city, Mumbai. Jacob Rajan delivers a dazzling solo performance as he channels seven characters, weaving the afterlife and a dash of Bollywood disco into the real-life mystery of India’s vanishing vultures. A man trying desperately to avoid death is flung between limbo and his past where a rebellious young woman holds the key that may guide him to paradise. Infused with serious laughter, exquisite puppetry and inspired sound design this show is guaranteed to melt your heart.
Ticket price is $20 + 2% booking fee, and there will be a short Q&A after the show as well as an education pack provided.
To book, please email the Education and Outreach Team at education@courttheatre.org.nz
A Doll's House
By Henrik Ibsen
In a version by Christopher Hampton
Genre: Iconic/Classic/Drama
Recommended age: 13+
School matinee: 11am Wednesday 16 October 2024
Run time: 2 hours 20 minutes (including 20 minute interval)
The play centres on an ordinary family—Torvald Helmer, a bank lawyer, his wife, Nora, and their three little children. Torvald supposes himself the ethical member of the family while his wife assumes the role of the pretty and irresponsible little woman in order to flatter him. Into this arrangement intrude several hard-minded outsiders, one of whom threatens to expose a fraud that Nora had once committed without her husband’s knowledge in order to obtain a loan needed to save his life. When Nora’s act is revealed, Torvald reacts with outrage and repudiates her out of concern for his own social reputation. Utterly disillusioned about her husband, whom she now sees as a hollow fraud, Nora declares her independence of him and their children and leaves them, slamming the door of the house behind her.
Famous for “the door slam heard around the world” and as a ground-breaking example of theatre realism as well as proto-feminist work, A Doll’s House stands as one of the most important plays in the theatrical canon.
Ticket price is $20 + 2% booking fee, and there will be a short Q&A after the show as well as an education pack provided.
To book, please email the Education and Outreach Team at education@courttheatre.org.nz