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The Pumphouse presents Backstage Workshop Series 2024
Workshop #1 - Marketing your Show Effectively with Meg Andrews
Join The PumpHouse Theatre’s Marketing and Box Office Coordinator Meg Andrews for a round-up of marketing strategies and tactics to help sell your show in the busy Auckland theatre world.
Covering topics from Facebook ads to using ChatGPT, how to craft an amazing press release, and what to put on your poster to generate ticket sales.
With a room full of passionate theatre marketers, there will be a chance to share your successes, ask questions, and try a few practice exercises. This two-and-a-half-hour workshop is just $20 per person and includes refreshments and resources.
WHEN: 7 May, 7-9.30pm
WHERE: The Pumphouse Theatre
TICKETS: https://pumphouse.co.nz/whats-on/show/marketing-your-show-effectively/
The Pumphouse presents Backstage Workshop Series 2024
Workshop #2 - Health and Safety in the Theatre with Rob Holland.
Presented by an expert in Health and Safety and technical theatre, you’ll come away from this workshop with a greater level of understanding and confidence around Health and Safety and be able to use this knowledge at arts venues around Auckland.
Designed for theatre practitioners of all levels, this will especially suit those who have positions of responsibility such as stage managers, lighting team leaders, and designers. Filled with practical exercises, real-work theatre examples, and suggested documentation and templates this is a must-attend for anyone with Health and Safety responsibilities.
To encourage as many people to attend as possible, this two-and-a-half-hour workshop is entry by donation and includes refreshments and resources.
WHEN: 9 May, 7 - 9.30pm
WHERE: The Pumphouse Theatre
TICKETS: https://pumphouse.co.nz/whats-on/show/health-and-safety-in-the-theatre/
The Pumphouse presents Backstage Workshop Series 2024
Workshop #3 - Developing Your Stage Management Skills with Teresa Sokolich.
Learn the art of Stage Management from one of Auckland’s most experienced stage and production managers, Teresa Sokolich.
Developing your Stage Management Skills is designed for those new to stage management – perhaps you’ve always wanted to have a go, or you’ve stage managed a couple of shows and want to learn how a professional approaches this crucial role.
Teresa invites you to join her behind the scenes of Tadpole Theatre’s May season to see how she runs her productions – from prop tables to spike marks, script notation to cues, she’ll use her very real production documents and live stage to explain how she gets things done.
This four-hour workshop, held on a Saturday, is just $30 – an absolute bargain to learn from one of NZ’s leading theatre experts.
WHEN: 18 May, 10am -2pm
WHERE: The Pumphouse Theatre
TICKETS: https://pumphouse.co.nz/whats-on/show/developing-stage-management-skills/
Tim Bray Theatre Company presents
The Great Piratical Rumbustification
Hoist the Flag of Fun and Mayhem
Shiver me timbers! The pirates are restless, yearning for a grand piratical adventure. “Oh, for a pirate party!” they proclaim. But, as any good pirate knows, a proper pirate party must be a stolen one. So now, get ready to set sail into the high seas of imagination as Margaret Mahy’s delightful tale, The Great Piratical Rumbustification, comes to life in a swashbuckling stage performance by Tim Bray Theatre Company.
Join our young hero, Oliver Terrapin, as he opens up the doors of his oblivious parents’ home for a party – a party with real pirates!
Mayhem ensues in this rollicking, rumbunctious rumpus of an escapade by Tim Bray Theatre Company that promises the most piratical fun you’ve had in years. Yo ho ho!!
WHEN: 13 - 27 April - 10.30am & 1pm
WHERE: The Pumphouse Theatre
WHEN: 4 May - 10.30am & 1pm
WHERE: Due Drop Event Centre
WHEN: 11 May - 10.30am & 1pm
WHERE: Māngere Arts Centre - Ngā Tohu o Uenuku
TICKETS: https://timbray.org.nz/the-great-piratical-rumbustification/