Celebrating its 30th Anniversary, Shakespeare Globe Centre New Zealand (SGCNZ) is delighted to be a part of WHAT IF THE CITY WAS A THEATRE? Encouraging audiences to rethink the limits of public space. This programme presents an invitation to take to the streets, and experience internationally acclaimed free arts performance in the places you least expect it.
Presenting Will on Cue - a series of 10 of Shakespeare’s plays, each edited to between 45 and 60 minutes, over the three weeks in February, performed in site specific spots around the city. The presenters will introduce the play and then provide passers-by with cue-scripts to have fun with the Bard.
Proving that Shakespeare transcends the ‘whirlygig of time’, residents from Malvina Major Retirement Village and Wellington Shakespeare Society will begin with scenes from The Merry Wives of Windsor. The other plays will be Julius Caesar, Henry V, King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra, Cymbeline, The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, The Tempest and King John. SGCNZ’s participation in The Performance Arcade’s What if the City was a Theatre, with its series of ten pop-up Shakespeare performances entitled Will on Cue throughout February, is the first its year of 30th Anniversary celebrations.
Will on Cue | Programme
11 Feb, 2:30pm, Merry Wives of Windsor, Outside Circa Theatre, 1 Taranaki St involving residents from Malvina Major Retirement Village and Wellington Shakespeare Society Member
12 Feb, 12:30pm, Julius Caesar, Civic Square with SGCNZ Alumni Maddie Brooks Gillespie & Jacynta Scurfield
13 Feb, 2:30pm, Henry V, Top of Botanical Gardens with SGCNZ Alumni Maddie Brooks Gillespie & Jacynta Scurfield
14 Feb, 2:30pm, King Lear, Outside Freyberg Pools with SGCNZ Alumni Maea Shepherd & Jackson Burling
18 Feb, 12:30pm, Antony and Cleopatra, Outside St Andrew’s on the Terrace with SGCNZ Alumni Maea Shepherd & Jackson Burling
19 Feb, 12:30pm, Hamlet, Bolton St Cemetery with SGCNZ Alumna Clara van Wel & Aiméee Sullivan
20 Feb, 2:30pm, Cymbeline, Queen Victoria Statue between Kent Terrace and Cambridge Terrace with The Lonely Shakespeare Collective
25 Feb, 12:30pm, Merchant of Venice, Midland Park with SGCNZ Alumna Maea Shepherd & Ruby Carter
26 Feb, 12:30pm, The Tempest, Waitangi Park with SGCNZ Alumna Clara van Wel & Liz Butler, Wellington Improv
27 Feb, 2:30pm, King John, Parliament grounds with The Lonely Shakespeare Collective
WHAT IF THE CITY WAS A THEATRE?
Presented by award-winning festival The Performance Arcade ,WHAT IF THE CITY WAS A THEATRE? is a FREE city-wide programme of art and performance this summer, curated in collaboration with some of Wellington’s most exciting artists, events, and creative organisations. A vibrant celebration of art in Aotearoa NZ, this initiative marks 10 years of the Wellington festival and the first collaboration of this kind between various sectors of the capital’s creative community. For two months, the capital will be transformed into a wonderland of creative encounters — join in, and make a discovery at every corner.
