The End of The Golden Weather
Gliding effortlessly between flights of poetic fancy and blunt everyday speech, The End of the Golden Weather is iconic New Zealand storytelling at its very best.
Overview
Bruce Mason’s quintessential Kiwi classic chronicles the friendship between a 12-year-old boy and the wild-limbed Firpo.
Through the boy’s eyes we see the wonder of life on a perfect beach, in a perfect 1930’s New Zealand summer. It’s a world of magic and transformation, where anything can happen and miracles seem possible.
First staged in 1959 by the playwright himself, The End Of The Golden Weather hits the stage again for the next few weeks at Auckland's Maidment Theatre. Some of the countries leading actors together with Director Murray Lynch have fleshed out what was originally a one man, coming of age tale, and weaved it together enabling a cast of 9 actors to tell this Iconic New Zealand story .
With the actors playing various roles ranging from human characters to objects, The End of The Golden Weather promises to be a refreshing take on one of our nations best known stories.
STARRING :
Keisha Castle-Hughes, Nic Samson, Sophie Roberts, Fern Sutherland, Tim Carlsen, Dena Kennedy , Matariki Whatarau, Byron Coll, Elliot Christensen-Yule
Direction: Murray Lynch