By GILBERT WONG
The Blue Room, the play dubbed "pure theatrical Viagra," is coming to Auckland as part of the Auckland Theatre Company's 2001 season.
The play, which caused a sensation with Nicole Kidman as one of the leads in the Donmar Warehouse production, will star actors Kevin Smith and Danielle Cormack.
Auckland Theatre Company producer Simon Prast calls the 2001 season Play With Fire. It includes the premiere of a new play by Roger Hall, Take A Chance on Me, and an Auckland season of Briar Grace-Smith's New Zealand International Festival commission Haruru Mai.
Apart from The Blue Room, the company will also stage Michael Frayn's award-winning play Copenhagen, about the meeting in the Danish capital between German physicist Werner Heisenberg, architect of the Nazi nuclear weapons programme and his mentor, Nobel laureate Niels Bohr. The play has won acclaim for its investigation of a key moment when history could have changed.
The season sees the revival of two classics - Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, with Elizabeth Hawthorne as Blanche du Bois, before winding up with the rock musical Hair.
Next year also sees the start of the ATC's Second Unit Programme which will provide three trainee-director scholarships, theatre for younger audiences and new local works produced in workshops. The programme will be led by ATC associate director Oliver Driver.
Local casts to play with fire
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