Part of the Every Kind of Weather season 
celebrating Bruce Mason’s Centennial

An adolescent boy tries to find his place in an adult-dominated world. A young man retraces an intensely felt boyhood experience of bullying. A playwright in his last days reconciles the value of an artistic life and challenges the idea of New Zealand identity.

Comic disasters and confronting your own hubris. Not Christmas, but Guy Fawkes is a richly autobiographical search for self-expression. Profound and true, it is a set of variations about over-reaching, cheekily confronting our very own Tall Poppy Syndrome.

Circa Two
21 Aug – 11 Sep 2021
$30 Preview – Fri 20 Aug 7.30pm
Circa Two
Tues, Thurs & Sat 7.30pm
$25 – $52 
Book ‘Not Christmas, but Guy Fawkes’

A theatrical box set from an iconic playwright and one of our greatest actors.

Bruce Mason is perhaps the most significant playwright in Aotearoa’s theatrical history. Writing with courage and insight, he was a lover of language and a champion of the underdog.

Between 1959 and 1978, Bruce toured the country, telling uniquely Kiwi stories about emerging identity, cultural cringe and social difference. From church halls to country shearing sheds to the Edinburgh Festival, Bruce would play anywhere, in any circumstance, to any audience.

2021 marks the centenary of his birth. To celebrate his extraordinary legacy, actor Stephen Lovatt is collaborating with director Shane Bosher and the Bruce Mason Estate to make two of his greatest solo works resound for a new age.

Timeless. Universal. Distinct. Performed in repertory, this mini-festival is a not-to-be-missed theatrical encounter with a master craftsman. 

SEASON PASS

Enjoy both The End of the Golden Weather and Not Christmas, but Guy Fawkes. Simply click on the BOOK A ‘SEASON PASS’ button and add a ticket for each show to your cart and the discount will be automatically applied.

BOOK A ‘SEASON PASS’

DOUBLE-BILL SATURDAYS

Enjoy two shows on one Saturday. Sat 28th Aug, Sat 4th Sept and Sat 11th Sept (Note: 4pm The End of the Golden Weather + 7.30pm Not Christmas, but Guy Fawkes). Simply click on the BOOK A ‘DOUBLE-BILL’ button and add a ticket for each show to your cart and the discount will be automatically applied.

BOOK A ‘DOUBLE-BILL’

DOUBLE-BILL SATURDAY – $40 DINNER SPECIAL*

Includes 1 regular (vegan option available) + 1 house beverage.

*only available between 5.30pm – 7pm on Sat 28 Aug, Sat 4 Sept & Sat 11 Sept

CALL 04 801 7996 TO BOOK

Theatre , Solo ,

In repertoire with The End of the Golden Weather