The Bicycle And The Butcher’s Daughter

THE BICYCLE & THE BUTCHER’S DAUGHTER

The Malvern Community Arts Council Performing Arts Committee welcomes Arts On Tour NZ’s (AOTNZ) new solo play ‘The Bicycle and The Butcher’s Daughter’. This play involves a family, food and five surprising characters and will be performed at the Darfield Recreation Centre on October 2nd. It is co-written and directed by Sue Rider and co-written and acted by Helen Moulder, the collaboration that brought you ‘Playing Miss Havisham’, ‘Gloria’s Handbag’ and ‘Meeting Karpovsky’. The play will also feature music by Beethoven, recorded by Richard Mapp on piano and Juliet Ayre on violin. The Bicycle and the Butcher’s Daughter is a lively and entertaining solo work that addresses themes of women in leadership, the meat industry, veganism, global food issues and family relationships. It is a funny and moving account of lives at a crisis point, all embodied by one actress, assisted by a few props and the magic of the theatre. Olivia Paterson runs a big meat exporting company and wants to feed the world. Her daughter is a vegan. Her father wants things to stay as they are, and her sister is not sure what she wants. Only the mysterious Grace seems certain. As a high-powered executive at the peak of her career, all Olivia wants is to make the world a better place. But when her business plans cause conflict with her family, what is more important - the company’s survival or her relationship with her daughter and aging father?

Sue is an award-winning theatre director, writer, dramaturg, actor and producer with over 180 stage productions and writing commissions in theatre, music theatre, opera and theatre for young people. Helen is an award-winning actor/ singer based in Nelson, who has been working in theatre, television and film for over forty years in the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia.

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