Theatre Guide

Those Indian Guys, Tarum Mohanbhai and Rajeev Varma.

D'Arranged Marriage
Venue: Maidment Theatre
Season: Sep 19-23, then to Orewa Centrestage Theatre, Sep 30
Rajeev Varma and Tarun Mohanbhai have become one of the country's most successful touring companies, touring Those Indian Guys and its prequel, From India With Love, to wildly enthusiastic audiences in four countries over the past four years. Now they are bringing their first show, D'Arranged Marriage, back to hometown Auckland. It's all about the travails of marriage-averse Sanjay who finally agrees to meet the girl his family wants him to marry. Hilarious and clever.


The Blonde, the Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead
Venue: Maidment Theatre
Season ends: Sep 16
Kerry Fox plays seven characters in this solo show about the day that Rhonda Russell, deserted wife and mother, went berserk in the shopping mall.

The Case of Katherine Mansfield
Venue: Herald Theatre
Season ends: Sep 16
The Edge
Actor Danielle Cormack flies solo in a performance of Cathy Downes' award-winning 1978 drama based on Mansfield's letters, journals and short stories. Cormack plays the writer, who spent most of her adult life in Europe, from the age of 18 to her death from tuberculosis 16 years later.

Take Me Out
Venue: Silo Theatre
Season ends: Sep 23
Darren Lemming is the epitome of a baseball star - envied by all, charismatic and handsome. But when he organises a mid-season press conference to announce that he's gay, he assumes the news will be accepted by everyone. It isn't.

Others and upcoming

See How They Run
The PumpHouse, Killarney Park, Takapuna, to Sep 16, ph 489 8390 or tix.co.nz

Encore
Centrestage Theatre, 60 Centreway Rd, Orewa, to Sep 22, ph (09) 426 7282

Disney's Beauty and the Beast
Bruce Mason Centre, Takapuna, to Sep 23

Social Climbers
Titirangi Theatre, Lopdell House, Titirangi Village, to Sep 23, ph 817 7658

The Black Flower of Jeremiah
Unitec, Building 202, Gate One, Carrington Rd, Sep 13-23, tickets.co.nz

Ashes to Ashes, One for the Road
Maidment Studio, 8 Alfred St, to Sep 24, ph 308 2383

Four Sides To A Story
Alleluya Bar & Cafe, St Kevin's Arcade, K Rd, Sep 17-19, square.org.nz

Happy Hour For Miserable Children
Herald Theatre, Aotea Centre, Sep 19-30, tickets from Ticketek

A Madman Sings to the Moon
Dophin Theatre, 12 Spring St, Onehunga, Sep 23-Oct 14, ph 636 7322

Badjelly The Witch
The Wintergarden, Civic Theatre, Sep 25-Oct 8, tickets from Ticketek

The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch
The PumpHouse, Killarney Park, Takapuna, Sep 25-Oct 7, ph 489 8360