Peter Pan the Pantomime! – Kāpiti and Coast Independent

Outstanding entertainment for all the family

Get hooked this Pantomime season with one of the most loved stories of all times.

Peter Pan and the troublesome Tinkerbell whisk Wendy away to the wondrous world of Neverland.

Without Google Maps, their only directions are: ‘Second on the right and straight on ‘til morning!’

Meet the Lost Boys, the cunning crocodile and the crooked Captain Hook! And of course, there’s the Dame, played by all-time favourite Gavin Rutherford.

Star-studded team

Director, Susan Wilson and Musical Director, Michael Nicholas Williams combine forces once again to bring you the annual, eagerly awaited Circa Pantomime. Susan has been the director of all the Circa Pantomimes since their inception at Circa Theatre twelve years ago and together with music maestro Michael Nicholas Williams produce an outstanding team.

We are delighted to have the script written by Pinky Agnew and Lorae Parry who bring their own unique take on this much-loved story by JM Barrie.

Peter Pan opened as a play in 1904 and it was followed by the novel in 1911. The novel has endured over the years as has the play. There have been numerous musicals, movies and Pantos. The story of Peter Pan, the boy who wouldn’t grow up, still captures the imagination and delight of children everywhere.

Sessions

18 NOV -23 DEC & 2-13 JAN
TUES to SAT 6.30, SUN 4PM
EXTRA MATINEES SAT 2,9,16 DEC 2PM

Bookings

1 TARANAKI STREET WELLINGTON: 04 801 7992 circa.co.nz

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STORY OF THE WEEK

Kāpiti Coast councillors have toured of one of Aotearoa's unique buildings, the heritage - listed Rotunda at the former Otaki Health Camp, the country’s first.

Jeremy Smith reports that the 105-year-old, eight-sided rotunda predates the Health Camp.

It wasn't actually built in Otaki, but was one of two built in Rotorua in 1915 as part of a military hospital, on the site of Rotorua’s present public hospital.

Later they were taken to Otaki for the opening of the health camp in 1931.

Full story in the main column (December 19).

100 Years Ago — and the Maori Long March begins

Māori politics was dominated by the influential MPs (and sometime Cabinet ministers) Māui Pōmare ( Waitara statue photo above) and Apirana Ngata.

The 1920's also saw the rise of Tahupōtiki Wiremu Rātana’s religious movement, and the emergence of Te Puea Hērangi in Waikato.

Ngata worked hard to foster Māori scholarship and education and preserve traditional arts and culture.

He convinced the government to establish a Board of Maori Ethnological Research (1923), a Maori Purposes Fund Control Board (1924) and a School of Maori Arts and Crafts in Rotorua (1927).

The Reform government also took the first, tentative steps towards settling longstanding Māori grievances.

Agreements with Te Arawa in 1922 and Ngāti Tūwharetoa in 1926 recognised their respective rights over the Rotorua lakes and Lake Taupō, and led to the establishment of trust boards with some government funding.

Commissions of inquiry which examined Ngāi Tahu grievances (1920–21) and the Waikato and Taranaki confiscations (1926–27) recommended that modest compensation be paid.