WEDNESDAY,SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
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the region at the national final of the 2022 TheatreFest competition — held in Wellington this weekend. TheatreFest, a one-act play festival organised by Theatre New Zealand, is one of the country’s premiere competitions for amateur dramatists — open to established and original works from schools and repertory theatre companies.
The two Wairarapa teams were among the three selected for the national final at the Lower North Island regional competition, held last month at Masterton’s Majestic Theatre. Of the 14 groups competing, the six Wairarapa teams had a particularly strong showing – taking home, between them, nine awards for direction, script
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writing, ensemble work, and individual performance. MTC Youth’s 15-strong cast simultaneously dazzled and terrified the audience with their rendition of Shuddersome, a stage adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s short fiction – bringing the writer’s gruesome imagination to life, and snatching the awards for Best Ensemble and Best Design.
The cast of MTC Youth’s Shuddersome as “the Shudders” — the undead narrators of Edgar Allan Poe’s stories.
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Winning the title of Best Youth and Best Overall Production was Fairy Lights, an original piece written by WaiCol student Will Tickner – capturing a young woman’s inner turmoil as the deadline for her assignment closes in. Will, Year 13, received high praise for his creative vision – incorporating shadow puppetry, fight choreography
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