Music

What’s happening in the Wellington region this week – Nov 23-26

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Theatre companies are out in force this week with lots of offerings in the lead up to the festive season.

MONDAY

Film: NZ Opera Society Opera Screenings

Boutique Cinema 1st floor Te Auaha Complex, Dixon St, 7pm, $25, students under 25 free

Offenbach’s La grande-duchesse de Gerlostein, a 2004 Theatre du Chatelet production. A frothy comedic delight, sung in French with English subtitles.

Exhibition: Garden Leave

Toi Pōneke Gallery, Abel Smith Street, until December 5

Garden Leave, by Toi Pōneke Art Centre’s visual artist-in-residence Matilda Fraser, examines the future of work and labour in an economic landscape impacted by pandemics, recessions, global trade, automation and excess.

The Ladies in Black, from left, Megan Neill, Sarah Allerton, Jane Keller, Frankie Leota, and Margaret Hill.

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The Ladies in Black, from left, Megan Neill, Sarah Allerton, Jane Keller, Frankie Leota, and Margaret Hill.

TUESDAY

Theatre: Ladies in Black

Gryphon Theatre, until Nov 28, $25-$35

This “coming of age” musical is set in an Australian department store in 1959, with each staff member on the precipice on chanage. The musical features music by Tim Finn. Tickets Wellingtonrepertory.org.nz

Books: This Is Not a PipeTara Black with Dylan Horrocks

Unity Books, 12.30-1.15pm, free

Join Victoria University Press and Unity Books to hear comic artist Tara Black discuss her amazing new book This Is Not a Pipe with fellow artist Dylan Horrocks.

Dance: The Slutcracker

BATS, until December 12, 8.30pm, $20-$40

A celebration of queerness, Wellington, and families of choice, The Slutcracker is a Christmas ballet like you’ve never seen before. Join Clyde, Joe, Mother Ginger, and the Sugar Plum Fairy for a joyous hour of dance comedy. Tickets bats.co.nz

Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement

Online only, free, https://fb.me/e/3CQEXUSvL

Creative New Zealand, in partnership with Auckland Live and The Big Idea, invites New Zealanders from across the motu to come together for a live, online panel discussion with this year’s recipients of the Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement.

WEDNESDAY

Books: Fair Weather HitchhikerJulia Millen

Unity Books, 6-7.30pm, free

Julia Millen, The Cuba Press and Unity Books warmly invite you to the launch of Julia’s memoir Fair Weather Hitchhiker. As a restless 17-year-old seeking fame and fortune (and romance), Julia Millen goes hitchhiking in the South Island. What begins as a holiday frolic becomes a survival recipe for life.

Concert: Stringendo

St Andrew’s on the Terrace, 12.15pm, donation

This orchestra of young Wellington musicians, conducted by Donald Maurice, will perform selected movements from: Bach – Brandenburg Concerto 3. Schubert–Serenade. Vivaldi- Concerto in D minor for two violins. Vivaldi –Autumn. Traditional- Sakura. Holst- St Paul’s Suite.

Demure Penny Ashton in Promise And Promiscuity

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Demure Penny Ashton in Promise And Promiscuity

Theatre: Promise & Promiscuity

Circa Theatre, until November 29, 7.30pm, from $25

Penny Ashton’s bonnet is back. Flushed by seven years of success, from Edinburgh to Edmonton to Adelaide, comes Miss Ashton’s collaboration with Jane Austen (deceased). Tickets circa.co.nz

THURSDAY

Theatre/music: Trial by Jury – an Operatic Vision by Cynthia Fortitude

Central Baptist Church, November 26, 12:30 and 7:30, $10-$30

A lively rendition of Gilbert and Sullivan’s shortest opera, with all the lyrics, all the music, additional material by Alison Hodge and a decidedly modern “look”. Tickets eventfinda

Theatre: Princess Boy Wonder

BATS, until November 28, 6.30pm, $20-$25

Join legendary drag king Hugo Grrrl for the return of his spectacular and multi award-winning solo show – Princess Boy Wonder. A glittering and hilarious campy cabaret. Tickets bats.co.nz

Tour: Modern Living Sensory Tour for Blind and Low-vision Visitors

Te Papa. 10.30am-11.30am, free

Join a tour of Modern Living: Design in 1950s New Zealand for blind and low-vision visitors. Explore this important era through audio description, handling objects, and discussion.

Exhibition: Lost Heads & Hobgoblins: The Museum of Ridiculously Interesting Things Pop-Up

The Dowse, until February 7, free

With mysterious hands, heads and melting ice-cream cones sneaking out from their shelves, Lost Heads & Hobgoblins explores the curious, fascinating and, at times, outright strange objects found in museums.

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A Letter To …

Do you have a letter you have always wanted to write to someone, but never did? If you would like to finally write that letter and have it published in The Dominion Post’s pages this summer, email it to [email protected] or send it to: Bess Manson, The Dominion Post, PO Box 3740, Wellington 6140. Names may be withheld at the writer’s request.

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