The hall was set up with fairy lights in the naked ceiling - stars in the sky - and the the set was in the centre of the oblong hall and we were all seated alongside the two opposing sides, in two rows. So it was theatre as it should be, with audience constantly engaged and the cast speaking and sometimes interacting with the audience. But is was basically a story of England's rather late entry into Gender Politics, it being revealed at the end that females only graduated from the great mle bastion Cambridge University in 1948, many many years after the suffragettes strutted the streets in London to get women's vote. We all know of course that NZ had the very first women's enfranchisement in 1893, and that they graduated not long after from Otago University. Again New Zealand was in the forefront of social change. However there are still parts where it lags behind, but not, certainly, in Wellington.
This was a great production and I am glad I cut short my Ti Whanawhana n to attend with J. Tomorrow night I have the The Christmas Carol NZ Ballet to see with J also.
But today was Koroi's birthday and he laboriously, with the help of our two home chefs, baked not one, but two chocolate cakes, one for work and one for home. Sonny decorated the work cake with great effect this morning and I ferried the birthday boy to work as he was already late. Tonight we will hear how his birthday bash went. They have obviously adopted him fully at Radio NZ as I knew they would, and he has certainly made it work for him too.
The poster..
The cast...
...the coffee next to the Embassy
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