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

“I invite you to join me, in a voyage into the past, to that territory of the heart we call childhood.”  

Bruce Mason’s quintessential Kiwi classic chronicles the friendship between a 12-year-old boy and the wild-limbed Firpo.

Through the boy’s eyes we see the wonder of life on a perfect beach, in a perfect 1930s New Zealand, during a perfect summer. It’s a world of magic and transformation, where anything can happen and miracles seem possible.

Firpo is a social outcast who dreams of winning an Olympic medal. When the boy sets out to help Firpo make his dream a reality, ignoring his father’s rebukes and community ridicule, a battle rages between the eternal optimism of childhood and the harsh pragmatism of adulthood.

Gliding effortlessly between flights of poetic fancy and blunt everyday speech, The End of the Golden Weather is New Zealand storytelling at its very best.

Circa Two
19 Aug – 11 Sep
$30 Preview – Weds 18 Aug 7.30pm + $30 Special – Sun 22 Aug 4.30pm
Circa Two
Weds & Fri 7.30pm; Sat 4pm & Sun 4.30pm
$25 – $52 
Book ‘The End of the Golden Weather’

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 Not Christmas but Guy Fawkes