The Appleton Ladies' Potato Race

THE APPLETON LADIES' POTATO RACE Written by Melanie Tait Directed by Anthea Williams

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NAU MAI HAERE MAI We warmly welcome you to The Appleton Ladies' Potato Race. This vibrant comedy, premiering in Aotearoa here at The Court Theatre, is a perfect way for us to think about spring coming with the worst of winter behind us now.

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NGA MIHI NUI When we welcomed the cast and creative team of The Appleton Ladies’ Potato Race, I joked that the play was itself like a baked potato – warm and comfortingly familiar – but with miso butter. It was an off-hand comment, but the analogy holds true.

Although Melanie Tait has drawn from her personal experience, this community feels familiar to much of New Zealand, and Tait lends her story a generous humour and warmth. But this is not a play stuck in nostalgialand. The people and the issues they grapple with are real and of the here-and-now. The intersection of change and different world views with tradition add that complex miso butter flavour to a delightful comedy.

This is a comedic world that director Anthea Williams knows how to bring to life on stage. I wasn’t aware that Anthea knew both the play and the playwright when I asked her to

direct, but it is not surprising that these smart, funny and talented women would know each other.

Anthea has assembled a cast of equally smart, funny and talented women, joined by a fantastic creative team. Rosie Gilmore’s set and Giles Tanner’s lighting capture the ochre beauty of Australia and allow us to move seamlessly from hair salon to bandstand. Matt Short has created atmospheric soundscapes and sourced music that is the soundtrack to this world. Pam Jones brings her wealth of experience and eye for detail to costumes that help each character feel fully realised. Their work is superbly supported by stage managers, Jo Bunce and Ben Freeth.

Light and sound operation is in Geoff Nunn’s capable hands.

It has been delightful seeing the work of the cast and creative team of The Appleton Ladies’ Potato Race come together; I hope you will find the same enjoyment in its performance.

Bon appétit!

Dr Alison Walls Artistic Director / Pou Kaitohu Toi

THE APPLETON LADIES' POTATO RACE Playwright Melanie Tait grew up in Robertson, a small town in New South Wales, Australia, which shares remarkable similarities with the fictional Appleton, including being renowned for potatoes and its annual show.

The small town of Appleton, population 1,557, may seem like an unlikely setting for debates over gender politics and societal equality, but change is racing toward Appleton.

Returning home after years away, GP Penny Anderson is shocked to discover that the town’s famous Potato Race awards $1,000 prize money to men, but only $200 to women. Someone has to shake things up in this town, and Penny is that person.

The Appleton Ladies' Potato Race is a punchy comedy about standing up for what you believe in, and it serves as an uplifting story, proving that not all 'troublemakers' are created equal.

“Pure theatrical rambunctiousness which will tumble you into the night with sore hands and uplifted spirits.”

– ARTSHUB

CAST / KĀHUI KIRIWHAKAARI Character Rania Penny Nikki Barb Bev Appleton Townspeople/ Voiceovers

Performed by Katrina Baylis Donna Brookbanks Kathleen Burns Anne Chamberlain Lynda Milligan Lily Bourne Cameron Clayton Cameron Douglas Tom Eason Nick Purdie Isayah Snow Amy Straker

Acknowledgments and Additional Credits We thank the entire Court Theatre whānau for their exceptional work and dedication in producing this play. Also: La Voûte Shanna Howden Taylor Ballantyne

CREATIVES / RINGATOI Director Set Designer Costume Designer & Construction Sound Designer Lighting Designer Head Stage Manager (until 12 August) Stage Manager (from 14 August) Operator Construction Manager Costume Manager Properties Manager Properties Assistants

Set Construction

Anthea Williams Rosie Gilmore Pam Jones Matt Short Giles Tanner Jo Bunce Ben Freeth Geoff Nunn Matt McCutcheon Daniella Salazar Julian Southgate Rochelle Wright Kristin Clark Michaela Bayly Richard van den Berg Nigel Kerr Seth Edwards-Ellis

Proudly printed by Caxton RUNNING TIME: Approx.

80 minutes, no interval RECORDING AND PHOTOGRAPHY: The recording and photography of this production is strictly forbidden.

The Appleton Ladies' Potato Race was produced by The Court Theatre 5 August – 9 September 2023

MELANIE TAIT PLAYWRIGHT

Melanie is a writer for stage and screen with a proven track record in Australia and the UK. Her play The Appleton Ladies’ Potato Race premiered at the Ensemble Theatre in Sydney in March 2019 and toured nationally in 2021. The play has been programmed right around Australia and New Zealand, including at the State Theatre Company of South Australia and upcoming productions at Queensland Theatre and The Court Theatre in Christchurch. Melanie also adapted the play into a feature film, which is currently post-production with Paramount+ and EQ Media.

Melanie’s play, A Broadcast Coup, opened in January 2023 at Ensemble Theatre as part of Sydney Festival.

She has four plays under commission at Melbourne Theatre Company, Ensemble Theatre, Sydney Festival and Blue Cow Theatre, Tasmania and is developing an original TV series with Screen Tasmania, 3rd Gen Productions and Congaline. She is also at various stages of development on a couple of screen projects.

Her first play The Vegemite Tales won critical and popular acclaim, playing eight years in London, including two years on the West End. Melanie then trained as a journalist with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, where she worked for twelve years across radio, podcasting and television.

DIRECTOR'S NOTE TA TE RINGATOHU KUPU

Melanie Tait's play is a joy to experience. Based on her fundraising experience for the potato race in Robertson, New South Wales, she shows us a town that is incredibly relatable. The town is inhabited by hardworking women who deeply care about their community; however they don't always see eye-to-eye on what's best for it.

Penny is an optimist, but she’s also an unwitting troublemaker. She wants the world to be fair, but by fundraising to equalise the prize money for the women's and men's potato race, she unearths disharmony and division.

This play takes a small-town conflict over a local event and uses it to reveal bigger ideas about how and why people believe the things they do, particularly when it comes to

gender and race, culture and history.

Penny has the best of intentions, but she also fails to consult before trying to implement change, and this is one of the key questions in the play: How do you create positive change, and in a timely manner, while bringing the community along with that change?

I’m so impressed with Melanie’s compassion when depicting the people of Appleton. The opposite of cynical or basic, each one of these women is complex and devoted to their town. This heartfelt writing is a great comfort in an ideological era that can so often feel needlessly polarised.

Creating this production has been such a delight. It’s always wonderful to come back to my hometown and back to The Court. But unlike Penny, I’ve found a merry band of enthusiastic souls keen for a new adventure, and for that, I’m very grateful.

Anthea Williams Director / Ringatohu

ANTHEA WILLIAMS DIRECTOR

Anthea Williams is an awardwinning theatre director and an emerging film director.

She is a Churchill Fellow and develops both theatre and screen writing.

Born and raised in Christchurch, Anthea is currently based in Sydney.

She trained at the Victorian College of the Arts (Directing) and the University of New South Wales.

Anthea's first show for The Court Theatre was The Pink Hammer.

Anthea’s directing credits include Pony and Since Ali Died (Griffin); M’ap Boulé (UTP); Sleeplessness (Carriageworks); Winyanboga Yurringa; Hir; Kill the Messenger; Cinderella; Forget Me Not and Old Man (Belvoir); Flight Paths and Thing I Could Never Tell Steven (National Theatre of Parramatta), Mother’s Ruin (National and UK tours);

The Humans (Red Line); Two Cigarettes; 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover; Turf; suddenlossofdignity.com and The Great British Country Fete (The Bush); Love and Information; The Colby Sisters of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and #KillAllMen (NIDA) among others.

From 2011 to 2017 she was Literary Manager then Associate Director – New Work at Belvoir. From 2007 to 2011 Anthea was Associate Director bushfutures at London’s Bush Theatre.

Anthea’s short film Safety Net was part of the official selection for the Sydney Film Festival, Slamdance Festival and was shortlisted for Whānau Mārama – the New Zealand International Film Festival’s Best Short Award.

Anthea is thrilled to be back home in Christchurch to direct The Appleton Ladies’ Potato Race.

CAST / KAHUI KIRIWHAKAARI

Katrina Baylis

Donna Brookbanks

Kathleen Burns

Katrina is a graduate of The Acting Shop, David Myles, The John Bolton Theatre School; Conservatory of Music, Dance and Art Dramatique in France; and The Victorian College of the Arts Australia.

Donna is an Auckland-based actor, comedian, improviser and writer. She is a graduate of The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York.

Kathleen began her career as a Court Jester in 2003 and still performs in Scared Scriptless. She is a graduate of the National Academy of Singing and Dramatic Art.

‘RANIA’

This is her first experience with The Court Theatre. Her other theatre credits include A Respectable Family; Death in Gaza; The Master Builder and Gaudi and the Turtle.

Katrina’s television credits include Neighbours; The Secret Life of Us; Karaoke High; The Insider’s Guide to Love and her own storytelling programme on TVNZ, Storytree. Her recent film credits include Poppy and Prince.

Katrina is a storyteller and children’s performer, fitness instructor and loves nature and fairies! Her family is from Palestine and the United Kingdom.

'PENNY'

Donna previously appeared on The Court stage 10 years ago in The Women. She has been a Billy T nominee twice with The New Zealand International Comedy Festival and has written three solo comedy shows.

Her television credits include 7 Days; Mean Mums; Raised by Refugees; Creamerie and Funny Girls; and she has written for and appeared on Shortland Street, Jono and Ben and The Project.

Donna has provided voices for popular TVNZ cartoons Night Eyes and Tu Meke Space.

Donna is a proud member of Equity New Zealand and is a co-founder of cult hit Auckland improv show, Snort.

‘NIKKI’

Her previous Court Theatre credits include Ladies Night; Educating Rita; The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time; Steel Magnolias; Pink Hammer; RENT and Sense and Sensibility. Her other theatre credits from around the country include A Servant to Two Masters; Under Milkwood; Cinderella; The Little Mermaid (Circa Theatre); Avenue Q; Five Women Wearing the Same Dress and Flagons and Foxtrots (Fortune Theatre); Perfuct Storm; Dungeons and Comedians and Feminist Yarns with Kathleen Burns (Little Andromeda).

Kathleen’s screen credits include Sextortion (TVNZ); Working Class; Ghost Shark 2 and the soon-to-be-released The Push.

Kathleen made her mainstage directorial debut with Flagons and Foxtrots at The Court Theatre in 2022.

Anne Chamberlain

Lynda Milligan

Anne is a graduate of the University of Otago (Bachelor of Arts).

In her long career, Lynda has been seen on the stage of most of the theatres throughout New Zealand, having toured around the country or starred at Auckland Theatre Company, Centrepoint, Circa and Fortune theatres. The majority of her work has been at The Court Theatre, where she first appeared in Canterbury Tales in 1974.

'BARB'

Her previous Court Theatre credits are Lovebirds and Witch Mother. Her other theatre credits include The Pink Hammer (Circa Theatre); Long Gone Lonesome Cowgirls (Old Red Lion, London) and The Molecatcher’s Daughter (Jack Straw’s Castle, London).

Anne’s television credits include Shark in the Park; Worzel Gummidge Downunder and voice artist for Deutsche Welle (Berlin). Her film credits include In My Father’s Den and Te Rua. Anne wrote and performs EGLANTYNE, a solo play about Eglantyne Jebb, a pioneering children's rights activist. Anne has toured the show in New Zealand and widely internationally including to London (Solo Theatre Festival), StratfordUpon-Avon (RSC’s The Other Place), Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Cambridge, Buxton, Birmingham, Shrewsbury, Brighton, Beirut, Geneva, Zurich, Dar Es Salaam, Nairobi, Adelaide and Melbourne.

‘BEV’

Since then, she has enjoyed performing in over 85 productions, her last shows being Mum’s Choir and The Pink Hammer.

Lynda is a proud Associate of The Court Theatre.

Lynda began singing at an early age and fell in love with musical theatre, which led to her being cast in numerous leading roles in shows such as The Sound of Music; Oliver!; Les Misérables; Annie; 42nd Street and Blood Brothers.

Her television credits include Close to Home and many children’s TV programmes including It Is I, Count Homogenized; What Now? and Son of a Gunn, to name a few.

CREATIVES / RINGATOI

Pam Jones

Rosie Gilmore

Matt Short

A lifetime love of creating clothing led to Pam’s employment at The Court Theatre, where for nine years, she designed and produced costumes for over 100 productions, including The Curative; Oliver! and Guys and Dolls, before creating an independent company, The Costumery.

Rosie Gilmore is a graduate of the Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School (Bachelor of Design: Stage and Screen).

Matt began his career working in marketing for a major London record label. He has since worked as a senior camera operator in broadcast television and other media platforms.

COSTUME DESIGNER

At The Costumery, she has designed and created costumes for The Court’s productions of Angels; Man in a Suitcase; Pacific Post; The Women; The Great Art War; Le Sud; Educating Rita; Steel Magnolias; In the Next Room, or the vibrator play and Les Liaisons Dangereuses.

Pam has also designed and produced costumes for nationwide touring shows The Buddy Holly Story; South Pacific; HMS Pinafore; Grease!; The Sound of Music; Saturday Night Fever; Social Climbers and Cats.

SET DESIGNER

Her previous Court Theatre credits include Katzenmusik; Whā and The Unauthorised Biography of… (Designer).

Rosie’s other theatre credits include Showbiz’s production of That Bloody Woman (Set Designer); Cubbin Theatre Company’s production of Sportsball (Designer); Red Scare's production of Homemade Takeaways (Set Designer); Toi Whakaari’s production of Women Beware Women (Set Designer); National Theatre / New Zealand Festival’s production of The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil (Assistant Designer) and various productions with Two Productions as a Designer.

SOUND DESIGNER

Matt returned to New Zealand to co-film, record sound and compose music for an adventure guide series for TVNZ. Over the last ten years he has composed music and designed sound effects for many major brand advertising and marketing films.

Matt’s previous Court Theatre credits include Things I Know to be True; Easy Money; In the Next Room, or the vibrator play; The Littlest Ninja; Stephen King’s Misery; Mum’s Choir; Hansel and Gretel; Thumbelina; Elling; Les Liaisons Dangereuses; The Arsonists; The Pink Hammer; A Streetcar Named Desire; The Girl on the Train; Flagons and Foxtrots and Sense and Sensibility.

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Giles Tanner

Jo Bunce

Ben Freeth

Giles is a graduate of Hagley Theatre Company (Diploma in Performing Arts), where he concentrated on technical production, and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Philosophy from the University of Canterbury.

Jo graduated from Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School with a Diploma in Technical Production in 1996 and has been working in theatre for over 25 years.

Ben has immersed himself in theatre since graduating from the National Academy of Singing and Dramatic Art (NASDA) with a Bachelor of Performing Arts.

She freelanced for many years in Wellington as a lighting designer / operator and stage manager, as well as working overseas in London and Edinburgh in film.

She was an on-set production assistant for King Kong.

His previous Court Theatre credits as an actor include Romeo and Juliet; Mary Poppins; Cops and Robbers; Legally Blonde the Musical; The Ugly Duckling; Chicago; Titus Andronicus; Jesus Christ Superstar; Les Liaisons Dangereuses; The Wind in the Willows; Jersey Boys; Little Shop of Horrors; Flagons and Foxtrots and RENT.

LIGHTING DESIGNER

Currently Head Technician at The Court Theatre, Giles has worked on more than 50 Court productions including Amadeus; When the Rain Stops Falling; Constellations; Educating Rita; Waiora: Te U Kai Po – The Homeland; The Events; Ropable; Venus in Fur; Titus Andronicus; In the Next Room, or the vibrator play; Stephen King’s Misery; Hedwig and the Angry Inch; The Father; Fresh Off the Boat; The Wind in the Willows; A Streetcar Named Desire; The Girl on the Train and Sense and Sensibility; Rēwena and Be Like Billy?

HEAD STAGE MANAGER

Jo has been involved in over 50 Court productions going back to 1996, including End of the Rainbow; The Hound of the Baskervilles; Blood Brothers; One Man, Two Guvnors; Shepherd; Constellations; Waiora; The Events; Venus in Fur; Ideation; Stephen King’s Misery; Les Liaisons Dangereuses; The Arsonists; A Streetcar Named Desire; Ladies Night; Frankenstein; The Girl on the Train; Flagons and Foxtrots; Sense and Sensibility and Appropriate.

STAGE MANAGER

Ben’s stage management credits include Catch Me If You Can; Severely Queer (Blackboard Theatre Collective); Sweet Charity; Ragtime (NASDA); Songs for a New World (So Keen Productions); The Father (The Court Theatre) and he served as assistant stage manager on Hudson & Halls Live!

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Geoff Nunn

Julian Southgate

Originally from Manchester, Geoff has been in New Zealand for 23 years. He is a qualified baker and at first worked in the hospitality industry as a chef and then restaurant manager.

Julian has designed numerous Court Theatre sets including Babylon Heights; Year of the Rat; Skin Tight; Baghdad, Baby!; Blackbird; Kiss of the Spiderwoman; The Tutor; Heartbreak House; Angels; The Perfumed Garden; Side by Side

by Sondheim; Much Ado About Nothing; Pacific Post; The Women; Amadeus; End of the Rainbow; The Hound of the Baskervilles; Plum; Le Sud; Romeo and Juliet; Exit the King; In the Next Room, or the vibrator play; Hedwig and the Angry Inch; The Wind in the Willows; A Streetcar Named Desire and Sense and Sensibility.

OPERATOR

He then decided on a complete change in career and went to Circo-Arts for a year and then studied for two years with The Hagley Theatre Company.

Geoff joined The Court Theatre on a casual basis in 2000 and has since worked as an actor, teaching artist, designer, technician and stage manager, becoming a full-time technician in 2005 and taking over the head technician position in 2008.

Geoff has also directed shows for Original Scripts Theatre School; The Hurunui Theatre Group and Christchurch Boys High School.

PROPERTIES MANAGER

His other stage set designs include Cats; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat (Showbiz Christchurch) and the national tour of Pinocchio (Royal New Zealand Ballet).

Julian has also made props and sculpture for numerous festivals, operas and outdoor and street theatre.

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