Schools Programme
Schools Programme
Silo Theatre
04.12.2024
2025 PROGRAMME
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Across four remarkable productions, the 2025 season delves into themes of motherhood, identity, and the courage to evolve. From biological mothers, reluctant mothers and terrible mothers, to wonderful mothers, drag mothers and Papatūānuku; this season champions the courage it takes to care for and nurture people, the earth, and our communities. This season celebrates storytelling unique to Aotearoa with three brand new works and an ongoing artistic focus on how to push the boundaries of production design, performance and direction to create innovative live experiences.
We hope this programme will engage Drama students, but also the wider curriculum including Media Studies, Music, Dance, Design and Visual Communication, Education for Sustainability, Social Studies, English and Visual Arts students.
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PRICING
All tickets to our school matinees are $20 for students with one free teacher per fifteen students booked. For student supervision, we require a ratio of one teacher for every fifteen students.
Student tickets for our public performances are $25 each and the regular adult price for teachers.
CONTACT
For Enquiries
Nahyeon Lee (Programme Manager)
Nahyeon@silotheatre.co.nz
09 369 5783 | 021 117 9553
TERM 3
Mother Play
By Paula Vogel
Directed by Sophie Roberts
School Matinee: 11AM, Tue 16 Sept (Term 3)
Venue: Q Theatre, Rangatira
Season: 4–20 September 2024
Duration: Approximately 105 minutes, no interval
Suitability: Year 12 & 13
Advisory: Alcohol, strong language, mild adult themes, smoking.
A play in five evictions.
Meet Phyllis, the Herman family matriarch, armed with gin and cigarettes, clinging to long-unfulfilled dreams. Her children, Carl and Martha, are on the cusp of adulthood in a rapidly changing America, ready to spread their wings and embrace new freedoms – but they’re not getting away from Mother that easily.
Paula Vogel is a Pulitzer prize-winning playwright for her play How I Learned to Drive (1998). In Mother Play, she presents a contemporary take on mothers, following the canon of stalwart American playwrights such as Tenessee Williams (The Glass Menagerie) and Eugene O’Neill (Long Day’s Journey Into Night). Vogel says, “when I was sitting at the dinner table with my mother, my brother and I could quote Glass Menagerie at each other, have a little private joke, and get through dinnertime,” Vogel said. “But I was curious as to what is the difference when women write mother plays.” (NPR).
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PUBLIC SHOWS AVAILABLE AT STUDENT PRICING
TERM 1 SCHOOL HOLIDAYS
Speed is Emotional
By Jo Randerson
Presented in collaboration with Barbarian Productions
Venue: Loft, Q Theatre
Season: 16 April – 3 May
No school matinees, public tickets available
Duration: Approximately 75 minutes
Suitability: Year 9-13
Advisory: Coarse language, mention of self-harm.
No Performances:
Good Friday (18 April) Easter Sunday (20 April) & ANZAC Day (25 April)
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TERM 2 SCHOOL HOLIDAYS
Taniwha
Created & composed by Leon Radojkovic
Presented in partnership with Auckland Live
Venue: Herald Theatre
Season: 26 June - 13 July
No school matinees, public tickets available
Duration: Approximately 50-60 minutes
Suitability: Anyone 5 years of age and up
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TERM 4
D.R.A.G (Dressed Resembling A God)
Created by Daniel Williams & Sophie Roberts with Adena Delights & Hugo Grrrl
Venue: Herald Theatre, Aotea Centre
Season: 13 November - 6 December
No school matinees, public tickets available
Duration: Approximately 90 minutes including interval
Suitability: Ages 15+
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