Social Climbers

Social Climbers

ROGER HALL’S classic kiwi comedy directed by Sian Davis

www.ellerslietheatre.co.nz

19 to 28 March 2015

Left to right: Juleigh Parker, Alison Arnold, Courtney Eggleton, Linda Pudney, Rochelle Cowie, Julie Taylor Photographer: Kasia Marcisz

Ellerslie Theatrical Society Inc. (ETS) has an entertaining line up of plays appearing on stage this year starting with Roger Hall’s bonding weekend comedy Social Climbers.

Five teachers and a rebellious art student embark on a bonding trek together in the great New Zealand outdoors. Torrential rains and a washed-out bridge see them trapped in a hiking hut high in the mountains for three days. Two days in, everything’s chummy – sort of like high school camp. Three days in, they’re definitely not happy campers.

Social Climbers is described as an insightful situation comedy about truth, consequences and unexpected revelations.

FROM THE DIRECTOR – Sian Davis

After much stage experience, Sian turned to directing in 1998. (Not totally true as she had directed at school as a teacher.) The 1998 opener was Hedda Gabler and that really gave her a taste for the quality ‘stuff’. Since then she has directed a melange of the classical and most wonderful (in her book) and, occasionally, the not-so-entrancing – an eclectic mix in any case – from Shakespeare (Twelfth Night for the Auckland University’s Summer Shakespeare in 2004) to The Mousetrap for Company Theatre in 2012 – her ‘ditziest’ in her accounting. She has to admit that it was probably the most popular of her productions with audiences.

Sian is particularly interested in promoting the staging of New Zealand plays and over half of the 28 productions (up to the time of writing) have been of local plays she is proud to own.

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