Past Productions

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Proud Sponsors of GEOJ OFFICIAL

  • 26-Nov-2023 to 25-Aug-2024
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GEOJ: a label designed and made in Christchurch, New Zealand by Geo Hensley-Smith. Unique and limited designer pieces.

Motel 2022

Motel 2022

  • 06-Oct-2022 to 15-Oct-2022

More info coming soon

The Sexiest Man In The World and Unbelievable

The Sexiest Man In The World and Unbelievable

  • 14-Jul-2022 to 23-Jul-2022

2 Shows, each night!

Gone to Seed

Gone to Seed

  • 21-Apr-2022 to 30-Apr-2022

A gardening club meets monthly in a church hall and is losing members due to old age, illness or accident.

Ugly Customers

Ugly Customers

  • 07-Oct-2021 to 16-Oct-2021

An elderly couple hold up a bank and demand money (no gold coins thank you). The bank manager and bank tellers' are given lessons and a refresher course on customer service and manners. As the armed defenders squad surrounds the bank, the elderly couple spring into action. Relationships begin to forge and there is division amongst the ranks.

A play which explores a frustration many of us recognise - the service, or lack of it, we receive from our financial institutions.

Hi De Hi

Hi De Hi

  • 15-Jul-2021 to 24-Jul-2021

 

Revisit the 1950’s and the Maplins Holiday Camp with its host of colourful characters.

We're British

We're British

  • 22-Apr-2021 to 01-May-2021

 

The farce surrounds an assistant bank manager, Peter Hunter, who lives in a flat above his bank with his new bride Frances. When Frances innocently sends a mail order off for some Scandinavian glassware, what comes back is Scandinavian pornography.

Good Grief

Good Grief

  • 01-Oct-2020 to 10-Oct-2020

UPDATE: Now performing October 2020

 

When retired lawyer, William, inherits the management of his recently deceased wife’s Community Charity shop he thinks it is a bit below him. This is reinforced for him when he meets the dysfunctional charity shop staff – the sweet peacemaker Sylvie, the community choir enthusiast book keeper, Malcolm and the sarcastic, rude 83 year old, Margaret.

 

MASH

MASH

  • 03-Oct-2019 to 12-Oct-2019

Irreverent black comedy following the exploits of a host of offbeat characters at a medical unit during the Korean war, including surgeons Hawkeye Pierce and Trapper John McIntyre who create havoc with their martini parties and practical jokes while the war rages around them.

Desperate Huttwives

Desperate Huttwives

  • 11-Jul-2019 to 20-Jul-2019

Seven Kiwi plumbers, hairdressers, mums, electricians, mechanics and beauty therapists, juggle beer and bubbly with pottles of mussels, and plates of brie and crackers, as they confuse their fantasy lives with reality and ponder the upside of a Shoe Warehouse in the Hutt

Stag Weekend

Stag Weekend

  • 18-Apr-2019 to 27-Apr-2019

A stag party in a West Coast cabin for four overconfident and under qualified city boys becomes increasingly hilarious (and dangerous) as they fumble towards the truth of what it means to be a New Zealand man in the age of the metro-sexual.

2019 GIFT VOUCHER

2019 GIFT VOUCHER

  • 20-Dec-2018 to 31-Dec-2019
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The perfect stocking filler.  Purchase tickets to give as a gift for any CAS'n'OVA PRODUCTIONS show in 2019!

Each purchase generates a unique voucher and voucher code by email, to print or forward onto your giftee, who can then enter the voucher code when booking on takeme2.co.nz and pick their own show and seats.

Allo Allo

Allo Allo

  • 04-Oct-2018 to 13-Oct-2018

A French cafe owner tries to ride out World War II. Caught between the Gestapo and the Resistance and forced into working with both, René also struggles to hide evidence of his affairs with the waitresses from his wife, who, though she can't carry a tune, frequently performs as a singer in the café.

Action of the play takes place in and around the Café Rene in occupied France during the second world war

Swingers

Swingers

  • 12-Jul-2018 to 21-Jul-2018

Old Golfers Never Die, They Just Lose Their Balls!

The Beverly Hillbillies

The Beverly Hillbillies

  • 19-Apr-2018 to 28-Apr-2018

Come and see Jed, Granny, Elly May, Jethro and all your favourites from the popular T.V Show!!

2018 Gift Voucher

2018 Gift Voucher

  • 26-Nov-2017 to 19-Jul-2018
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The perfect stocking filler or a gift for someone who has EVERYTHING!

 

Spreading Out

Spreading Out

  • 05-Oct-2017 to 14-Oct-2017

A comedy by Roger Hall

Middle Age Spread

Middle Age Spread

  • 13-Jul-2017 to 22-Jul-2017

A comedy by Roger Hall

Taking Off

Taking Off

  • 20-Apr-2017 to 29-Apr-2017

A Comedy by Roger Hall

Dad's Army

Dad's Army

  • 29-Sep-2016 to 08-Oct-2016

Popular BBC comedy series set in the fictional south coast seaside town of Walmington-On-Sea during World War 2.

Social Climbers

Social Climbers

  • 14-Jul-2016 to 23-Jul-2016

"Social Climbers" throws together three generations of New Zealand women, confines them in one room, dims the lights and rips open the wine cask.

Blind Eye

Blind Eye

  • 22-Apr-2016 to 30-Apr-2016

Wally and Vera are a "salt of the earth" couple in their golden years. They have lived on the same street their entire lives. They have kept to themselves and led decent lives. Or have they?

Blind Eye - WORLD PREMIERE GALA OPENING NIGHT

Blind Eye - WORLD PREMIERE GALA OPENING NIGHT

  • 21-Apr-2016

Our first show for the year, please join us for the World Premiere Gala Opening Night.  This evening has a special price due to the extra special evening CAS'n'OVA PRODUCTIONS are providing.

2016 Season Ticket

2016 Season Ticket

  • 01-Jan-2016 to 30-Apr-2016
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Get your CAS'n'OVA PRODUCTIONS Season Ticket now. From as little as $65 (a value of $75) this is amazing value!

Stitched Up

Stitched Up

  • 01-Oct-2015 to 10-Oct-2015

Enter Mr Nibbs, gentle-natured valet, and Rags, his street-wise, urchin assistant.

Though they are dutiful and loyal servants to their Emperor, their patience is sorely tested when a couple of rogues, posing as tailors, infiltrate the palace.

The Twelfth Man

The Twelfth Man

  • 15-Jul-2015 to 18-Jul-2015

A tale of a woman's cricket team with a couple of escaped convicts and a cross-dresser thrown into boot!

The Sex Fiend

The Sex Fiend

  • 09-Apr-2015 to 18-Apr-2015

SEX FIEND is a slapstick comedy with a very simple story line centered in a flat with a couple of young, not so new age characters.

 

Crazy Ladies

Crazy Ladies

  • 02-Oct-2014 to 11-Oct-2014

Pamela Browne has organised a 25 year reunion for her 4 best high school friends.  

From the moment Kay, now a chocoholic gun toting funeral director arrives, the wheels begin falling off Pamela's meticulously planned weekend.

 

 

The School Ball

The School Ball

  • 17-Jul-2014 to 26-Jul-2014

A celebration of the comedy and tragedy of your typical 80's New Zealand School Ball.

 

Sex Drive

Sex Drive

  • 24-Apr-2014 to 03-May-2014

It’s about life, love, lust and Lotto.

Sex Drive is a fast-paced comedy, which tells the story of three women – close friends Chrissy, Sylvie and Dawn. They work together in a chicken factory in New Zealand, Pack ‘n Pullet Poultry.

 

Are You Being Served?

Are You Being Served?

  • 01-Jan-2014 to 31-Dec-2014

Supporting Canterbury Repertory Theatre's production of ARE YOU BEING SERVED.

Directed by Craig Hutchison, November 2014.

Click here for more information.

Netballers

Netballers

  • 21-Nov-2013 to 30-Nov-2013

A popular comedy about an electric group of women who play for the Red Hot Mamas' Social Club Netball Team. 

Manic to Madness

Manic to Madness

  • 03-Oct-2013 to 12-Oct-2013

Meet Nero, a colourful ex-photocopier salesman who is affected by Bipolar Disorder. Manic to Madness is his story. It’s a light hearted look at what’s it’s really like to live with mental illness. 

Motel (Professional Premiere Auckland)

Motel (Professional Premiere Auckland)

  • 13-Aug-2013 to 24-Aug-2013

What if walls could talk?

What if you could see through the paper thin motel wall to see what on earth is going on in the dingy room next door? One cheap motel room. Eight ordinary people. Four extraordinary situations. What would you do in their shoes? Could you? Come take a look. Be a fly on the wall of this MOTEL. 

Motel

Motel

  • 06-Jun-2013 to 14-Jun-2013

What if walls could talk?

What if you could see through the paper thin motel wall to see what on earth is going on in the dingy room next door? One cheap motel room. Eight ordinary people. Four extraordinary situations What would you do in their shoes? Could you? Come take a look. Be a fly on the wall of this MOTEL. 

Two Plays, One Night! Bonking James Bond & Snip (World Premiere)

Two Plays, One Night! Bonking James Bond & Snip (World Premiere)

  • 09-Aug-2012 to 18-Aug-2012

CAS'n'OVA PRODUCTIONS, in arrangement with Playmarket presents Two Plays, One Night. See the world premiere of SNIP and Bonking James Bond all on one hilarious night. 

Bonking James Bond

Bonking James Bond

  • 09-Aug-2012 to 18-Aug-2012

A warm hearted comedy about Betty who, having just discovered her husband is having an affair will do anything to save her marriage even if it means...

Snip - World Premiere

Snip - World Premiere

  • 09-Aug-2012 to 18-Aug-2012

A standoff between husband and wife over the big 'V' question and their ongoing physical relationship, intertwined with fantasies of what if, how, when and why.

Death and Taxes

Death and Taxes

  • 07-Mar-2012 to 17-Mar-2012

A madcap financial farce set in the very world of insurance, investments and KiwiSaver! It's a crime story, a ghost story, a comedy featuring dodgy deals and... 

My Husband's Nuts

My Husband's Nuts

  • 01-Dec-2010 to 04-Dec-2010

Barbara’s husband is missing on the family farm.

When Jack finally returns he is a nervous wreck and will not leave the house…

Oliver!

Oliver!

  • 29-Jun-2010 to 02-Jul-2010

This much-loved musical vividly brings to life Dickens' timeless characters with its ever-popular story of the boy who asked for more.

Menopause Made Me Do It

Menopause Made Me Do It

  • 12-May-2010 to 22-May-2010

It has been ten years since the last reunion of the Crazy Ladies.  Menopause has arrived and the ladies are crazier than ever.

 

The School Ball- RP

The School Ball- RP

  • 12-Aug-2009 to 22-Aug-2009

 

A celebration of the comedy and tragedy of your typical 80's New Zealand School Ball.

Ugly Customers (past)

Ugly Customers (past)

  • 12-Mar-2008 to 22-Mar-2008

A play which explores a frustration many of us recognise - the service, or lack of it, we receive from our financial institutions.

Stiff

Stiff

  • 15-Aug-2007 to 25-Aug-2007

Angel Delight, the illegitimate daughter of a funeral parlour director, inherits the business when her father dies.

Before she can sell the business and the land (which is much more valuable) she has to continue to run the business as a funeral parlour for a further five years. Unfortunately she knows nothing about the funeral business but a lot about prostitution

Legless

Legless

  • 09-Aug-2006 to 19-Aug-2006

When New Zealanders Don and Gay visit their relation, The Earl of Wedgecumbe, the classic country house murder mystery is turned on its head.

 

 

The Sex Fiend-RP

The Sex Fiend-RP

  • 18-May-2005 to 28-May-2005

Outrageous farce ensues when Anna arranges to have a meeting of her women's poetry group at her flat.