Long Cloud Youth Theatre presents Tom Keeper Passes

WHITIREIA NEW ZEALAND PRESENTS
LONG CLOUD YOUTH THEATRE

TOM KEEPER PASSES by ELI KENT and LONG CLOUD YOUTH THEATRE
3rd February – 12th February. Tues – Sat shows @ 8pm, Sunday’s @ 3pm.

Te Whaea Theatre, 11 Hutchison Rd, Wellington
$14/$18, Bookings Phone 04 238 6225 or online www.thetheatre.co.nz

Long Cloud Youth Theatre and the fantastical, improbable legend of TOM KEEPER PASSES!

The bees have gone. No one quite knows why. One day they were there and the next they weren’t.

Over the past four months the members of Long Cloud have been working with Aaron Cortesi, Leon Wadham and multi-award winning playwright Eli Kent to devise a bizarre and twisted allegory for our times. Playful, wicked and darkly humorous, this is vital storytelling for anyone prepping for the world to come.

Following the success of YO FUTURE, Long Cloud continues to develop its Company vision with new work TOM KEEPER PASSES. Created in collaboration with both Downstage Theatre and Toi Whakaari: The New Zealand Drama School, Long Cloud will present this original production in Te Whaea Theatre from the 3rd until the 12th of February.

Hurtling between families, over oceans and through the years, TOM KEEPER PASSES presents a world out of balance and the people teetering upon it. In a time of crisis, can we trust ourselves to find any answers? What can we change? Where do we start?

Artistic Director Aaron Cortesi: “22 young actors spill onto the stage, their hopes and fears laid bare.Tom Keeper Passes is their fable for our times. It’s exciting, raw, epic...pure Long Cloud.”

Long Cloud Youth Theatre is a hothouse for New Zealand’s most exciting young acting talent. Long Cloud, run by Whitireia New Zealand and based in Wellington, is a unique training and production company for young people aged 16-21. The Company gives young actors the means to enhance their theatrical skills through practical performance experience and the opportunity to work with Wellington’s foremost theatrical directors and tutors.

Company credits are YO FUTURE (2011), SHEEP (2011), DAUGHTERS OF HEAVEN (2011), EQUUS (2010), THE SEAGULL (2010), VERNON GOD LITTLE (2010), TITUS ANDRONICUS (2009), THE CRUCIBLE (2009), GRIMM & COLONY! (2008/2009) AND SPRING AWAKENING (2008).

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