Meeting Karpovsky.
Posted on the 14 April 2015
Meeting Karpovsky
Sir John Trimmer and Helen Moulder are returning to Hawkes Bay this June!
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 andnow returns to tour the wholecountry 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
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.
For ticket info please click on: http://www.creativehastings.org.nz/tickets