Meeting Karpovsky with Helen Moulder and Sir Jon Trimmer

Meeting Karpovsky with Helen Moulder and Sir Jon Trimmer

Sylvia once travelled the world and visited its famous ballet theatres. Now she spends time alone in her attic, filled with her daughter's unwanted possessions and photographs of her favourite ballet dancer, Alexander Karpovsky - she has seen him dance 127 times. One day the silent Karpovsky mysteriously appears and teaches the stumbling Sylvia to dance...and to live.

Originally produced to rapturous response in 2002, Meeting Karpovsky toured New Zealand in 2003/4 and won Listener Best Play and Chapman Tripp Actress of the Year. Following popular demand, it returned to Circa and some North Island centres in 2012 and now returns to tour the whole country with Arts On Tour NZ.

Created by Helen Moulder, Sue Rider and Jon Trimmer with music by Tchaikovsky, Weber, Stravinsky, Adam and Bach.

“Pure magic – together they are magnificent” – The Listener

“This beautiful piece of theatre brings together two extraordinary performers, Helen Moulder and Sir Jon Trimmer, performing a unique pas de deux that interweaves ballet and theatre seamlessly.” –Theatreview

For more information contact:
Diana Moir, AOTNZ media liaison, 03 355 2691, 021 126 5738, dhmoir@xtra.co.nz
Steve Thomas, Arts On Tour NZ Trust, aotnz@xtra.co.nz
Helen Moulder, 027498 7580, helen.moulder@gmail.com, www.willowproductions.co.nz

Biographies

Helen Moulder
Helen Moulder has been working as an actor/singer for four decades in New Zealand, the United
Kingdom and Australia. Her many roles include Virginia Woolf in Vita and Virginia, Vivian Bearing in Wit, for which she won Actress of the Year in the 2000 Wellington Theatre Awards, Sister Aloysius in Doubt and Gertrude in Hamlet.

She has also co-created and toured a number of solo and two person shows, The Legend Returns (with Rose Beauchamp), A Vote for Cynthia, Cynthia Fortitude’s Farewell (with the Wellington Chamber Orchestra), Playing Miss Havisham, Gloria’s Handbag and Meeting Karpovsky (with Sue Rider) for which she was awarded Wellington Actress of the Year a second time. Helen has toured to Japan three times as Madame Giry in Ken Hill’s Phantom of the Opera and her recent roles in film and television include Rest for the Wicked, What Really Happened: Votes for Women and Food for Thought.

Sir John Trimmer
Sir Jon Trimmer KNZM MBE has been a mainstay of the Royal New Zealand Ballet for 56 years. He studied at the Royal Ballet School, London, has danced with the Australian Ballet, the Royal Danish Ballet and toured with Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn. In New Zealand, his many roles have included Petrouchka, Albrecht in Giselle, Leopold Mozart in Amadeus, Dr Coppelius in Coppelia and Drosselmeyer in The Nutcracker. Jon received a knighthood in 1999 for his services to ballet.

Sue Rider
Sue Rider is based in Brisbane and has been a theatre director, writer, dramaturg and actor for more than 40 years, interpreting classical and contemporary works and pursuing the development of new writing in theatre, music theatre, opera and theatre for young people. Born and educated in the United Kingdom, she has worked in Nigeria, Vietnam, New Zealand and Australia. Sue was Artistic Director of La Boite Theatre, Brisbane, from 1993 to 2000. She is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Queensland School of English, Media Studies and Art History and has been Chair of Backbone Youth Arts since 2008.

In New Zealand, besides her collaborations with Helen Moulder, she has directed Milo’s Wake, Vincent in Brixton, The Blonde, the Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead, Long Day’s Journey into Night and The Glass Menagerie at the Court Theatre; and Doubt at Circa. Sue has been honoured with 18 industry awards in Australia and New Zealand for her productions and for the writing and direction of her own plays.

Itinerary

Sat 2 May 7.30pm, Sun 3 May 2pm, Nelson
Theatre Royal Nelson
Adults $25; Seniors and Royal family members $23;
Groups 4+ $22; Students $15
Book: Theatre Royal 03 548 3840 www.ticketdirect.co.nz

Tues 5 May 7.30pm Hokitika
Regent Theatre
$30; Students $15
Book: At the Theatre

Thurs 7 May 7.30pm Invercargill
SIT Centrestage Theatre, Don St
$28/$25/$15
Book: Ticketdirect or CUE TV
A SOUTHLAND FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS EVENT

Sat 9 May 7.30pm Arrowtown
Athenaeum Hall
$25 Book: Lakes District Museum

Sun 10 May 7pm Cromwell
Memorial Hall
Adults $25; SuperGold $20; Student/Child $5
Book: Cromwell i-Site

Wed 13 May 7.30pm Ranfurly
Town Hall
Book: Ranfurly i-Site

Thurs 14 May 7.30pm Twizel
Events Centre
Adults $25; Students $10
Book: Mackenzie Lotto Plus
Twizel Information Centre

Sat 16 May 7.30pm Oamaru
Oamaru Repertory Theatre
$28, $25 Book: www.ticketdirect.co.nz

Sun 17 May 7.30pm Timaru
The Playhouse Church St
$30+ $2 (booking fee)
Book: Newmans Music Works or www.nmw.co.nz

Wed 20 May 8pm Akaroa
Akaroa Area School Gymnasium $25
Book: Akaroa Museum or 03 304 8900

Tues 26 May 7.30pm Tauranga
Baycourt X Space
Adults $28; Senior $26; Friends $24; Student $15
Book: Baycourt Box Office www.ticketek.co.nz 0800 TICKETEK

Thurs 28 May 7.30pm Wanganui
Royal Wanganui Opera House
Adult $25; Senior $23; FOH $20; Student $15
Special Rates for School Groups
Book: Opera House or www.royaloperahouse.co.nz

Fri 29 May 7.30pm Hawera
Memorial Theatre
$25 Book: South Taranaki i-Site 06 2788599

Sat 30 May 7.30pm, Sun 31 May 2pm New Plymouth
4th Wall Theatre
Adults $35; Seniors $30; Students 425
Tables 6+$25
Book: www.4thwalltheatre.co.nz

Fri 5 June 7.30pm Whakatane
The Liberty Centre
Adults $25; Students $15
Book: The Good Life on The Strand

Sat 6 June 7pm Whitianga
Town Hall
$15
Book: Whitianga Paper Plus 07 866 5698

Mon 8 June 7.30pm Hamilton
Playhouse Theatre, Gallagher Academy of Performing Arts
University of Waikato
Adults $30; Concessions $25; Groups 4+ $20; Students $10
Book: www.waikato.ac.nz/academy

Thurs 11 June 7.30pm Whangarei
The Riverbank Centre
$25
Book: www.whangareitheatrecompany.org.nz
Whangarei Suit Hire Rust Ave

Sat 13 June 7.30pm Hastings
Playhouse Theatre
$32; Concessions $27 (booking fee may apply)
Book: www.creativehastings.org.nz/tickets
or Hastings Community Arts Centre 106 Russell St

Sun 14 June 8pm Upper Hutt
Expressions Arts and Entertainment Centre
$20
Book: www.expressions.org.nz or 04 527 2851

About Arts On Tour New Zealand
Arts On Tour New Zealand (AOTNZ) organises tours of outstanding New Zealand performers to rural and smaller centres in New Zealand. The trust receives funding from Creative New Zealand, support from Interislander, and liaises with local arts councils, repertory theatres and community groups to bring the best of musical and other talent to country districts. The AOTNZ programme is environmentally sustainable – artists travel to their audiences rather than the other way around.

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