Across five bold productions, Silo’s 2026 season explores power, desire, and the decisions that shape who we become. From a classic American tragedy reimagined on the Rangatira stage to a fearless new work about friendship, consent, and coming of age - which we’re bringing directly to your school hall - these plays are designed to spark meaningful discussion in English and Drama classrooms.

Our 2026 Schools Programme focuses on Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge and Julia Grogan’s Playfight. One is a cornerstone of the senior English curriculum; the other is a critically acclaimed new play examining girlhood, sexuality, and the online world. Together, they offer rich opportunities for students to engage with complex characters, big ideas, and contemporary performance practice.

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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.

Tickets to our Playfight in-school tour are $15 for students.

Student tickets for our public performances are $25 each and the regular adult price for teachers.

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For Enquiries
Nahyeon Lee (Programme Manager)
Nahyeon@silotheatre.co.nz
09 369 5783 | 021 117 9553

Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge
Directed by Anapela Polata'ivao

Venue: Q Theatre, Rangatira
School Matinees: 11AM on Tue 15 April, Tue 22 April, Wed 23 April, Tue 29 April
Alternative public evening performances are also available at a special school rate of $25 per student (subject to availability).

Season: 9 April – 3 May 2026
Duration: Approx. 130 mins

Suitability: Year 11, 12 & 13
Advisory: Adult themes, strong emotional and physical conflict, references to sexual desire and jealousy, staged violence, mild coarse language, and smoking on stage.


Eddie Carbone is a Brooklyn longshoreman who lives by his own code. When he takes in two cousins fresh off the boat, he offers them shelter and a chance at a better life. But when one cousin falls for Eddie’s niece Catherine, it lights a fuse. Pride, jealousy, and obsession build toward a shocking act of violence.
Directed by long-time Silo collaborator Anapela Polata’ivao, this production strips Miller’s tragedy back to its essentials - family, loyalty, desire, and the cost of silence. Non-traditional casting reframes the classic through a contemporary Aotearoa lens, allowing students to see familiar communities reflected in a work many will study in senior English.


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Playfight
By Julia Grogan
Directed by Brita McVeigh

Venue: Silo Hall, 3 East Street & Touring to Schools
School Matinee: 11AM Thu 21 May
In-School Tour: 2 – 5 June

Season: 14 – 30 May 2026
Duration: Approx. 60 mins

Suitability: Year 12 & 13
Advisory: References to sexuality and desire, peer pressure, coercion, and bullying, scenes exploring consent and boundary negotiation, online behaviour, shame, and digital harm, emotionally intense interactions between young characters, coarse language, and moments of staged physicality

Under their tree, three fifteen-year-old girls - Keira, Zainab and Lucy - push boundaries as they navigate sex, shame, friendship, and the digital world. A game becomes a joke; a joke becomes something riskier; and then someone gets hurt.
Fast, funny, and unfiltered, Playfight captures the contradictions and hunger of girlhood with honesty and humour. As videos spread and pressure mounts, the play asks what happens when no one teaches you how to care for yourself - and you have to figure it out with just your instincts, your mates, and the internet. With characters aged fifteen when we meet them, the play offers senior students the rare experience of seeing their own age group and emotional reality reflected authentically on stage.

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Constellations
By Nick Payne
Directed & Adapted by Nī Dekkers-Reihana

Venue: Q Theatre, Loft
Season: 2 – 19 July 2026

An astrophysicist and a beekeeper meet at a barbeque, drawn together by curiosity and connection. Their relationship unfolds across infinite realities — blossoming, faltering, and transforming in ways both tender and devastating. At once intimate and expansive, Constellations explores the fragile balance between choice and fate, asking what changes when we shift the context of a love story.

JOB
By Max Wolf Friedlich
Directed by Shane Bosher

Venue: Q Theatre, Loft
Season: 3 – 20 September 2026

There’s been an incident.
She’s a tech girlie with a heavy tote bag. He’s the therapist deciding if she’s safe to go back to work. She says she’s fine. He says he’s listening. What should be a simple psych evaluation spirals into power, panic, and doubt.

Marathon
By Nic Sampson
Directed by Sophie Roberts

Venue: Q Theatre, Rangatira
Season: 12 November – 6 December 2026

Marathon tells the story of the 1904 Olympic Marathon, a race so chaotic it nearly killed its contestants — and the event itself — for good. This is a play about falling short, spectacularly. Marathon finds the comedy and heart in sporting disaster, celebrating the losers, the cheats, and the ones who never made it to the finish line.

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