Past Productions
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- 26-Nov-2023 to 25-Aug-2024
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Motel 2022
- 06-Oct-2022 to 15-Oct-2022
- Writer: April Phillips
- Director: Craig Hutchison & Rebecca Wakelin & Pene Maddock & Courtney Wright
More info coming soon
The Sexiest Man In The World and Unbelievable
- 14-Jul-2022 to 23-Jul-2022
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- Director: Craig Hutchison
2 Shows, each night!
Gone to Seed
- 21-Apr-2022 to 30-Apr-2022
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- Director: Rebecca Wakelin
A gardening club meets monthly in a church hall and is losing members due to old age, illness or accident.
Ugly Customers
- 07-Oct-2021 to 16-Oct-2021
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- Director: Raymond Williamson & Pene Maddock
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
- 15-Jul-2021 to 24-Jul-2021
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- Director: Pene Maddock
Revisit the 1950’s and the Maplins Holiday Camp with its host of colourful characters.
We're British
- 22-Apr-2021 to 01-May-2021
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- Director: Craig Hutchison
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
- 01-Oct-2020 to 10-Oct-2020
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- Director: Rebecca Wakelin
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
- 03-Oct-2019 to 12-Oct-2019
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- Director: Craig Hutchison
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
- 11-Jul-2019 to 20-Jul-2019
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- Director: Pene Maddock & Ray Williamson
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
- 18-Apr-2019 to 27-Apr-2019
- Writer: Dan Bain & Brendon Bennetts
- Director: Rebecca Wakelin
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
- 20-Dec-2018 to 31-Dec-2019
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Allo Allo
- 04-Oct-2018 to 13-Oct-2018
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- Director: Craig Hutchison & Pene Maddock
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
- 12-Jul-2018 to 21-Jul-2018
- Writer: April Phillips
- Director: Craig Hutchison
Old Golfers Never Die, They Just Lose Their Balls!
The Beverly Hillbillies
- 19-Apr-2018 to 28-Apr-2018
- Writer: Paul Henning
- Director: Rebecca Wakelin
Come and see Jed, Granny, Elly May, Jethro and all your favourites from the popular T.V Show!!
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
- 05-Oct-2017 to 14-Oct-2017
- Writer: Roger Hall
- Director: Pene Maddock
A comedy by Roger Hall
Middle Age Spread
- 13-Jul-2017 to 22-Jul-2017
- Writer: Roger Hall
- Director: Craig Hutchison
A comedy by Roger Hall
Taking Off
- 20-Apr-2017 to 29-Apr-2017
- Writer: Roger Hall
- Director: Ray Williamson
A Comedy by Roger Hall
Dad's Army
- 29-Sep-2016 to 08-Oct-2016
- Writer: Jimmy Perry
- Director: Craig Hutchison & Rebecca Wakelin
Popular BBC comedy series set in the fictional south coast seaside town of Walmington-On-Sea during World War 2.
Social Climbers
- 14-Jul-2016 to 23-Jul-2016
- Writer: Roger Hall
- Director: Ali Robb & Craig Hutchison
"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
- 22-Apr-2016 to 30-Apr-2016
- Writer: April Phillips
- Director: Craig Hutchison
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
- 21-Apr-2016
- Writer: April Phillips
- Director: Craig Hutchison
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
- 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
- 01-Oct-2015 to 10-Oct-2015
- Writer: Celine Gibson
- Director: Craig Hutchison & Ray Williamson
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
- 15-Jul-2015 to 18-Jul-2015
- Writer: Jeffrey Thomas
- Director: Craig Hutchison
A tale of a woman's cricket team with a couple of escaped convicts and a cross-dresser thrown into boot!
The Sex Fiend
- 09-Apr-2015 to 18-Apr-2015
- Writer: Danny Mulheron & Stephen Sinclair
- Director: Craig Hutchison
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
- 02-Oct-2014 to 11-Oct-2014
- Writer: Devon Williamson
- Director: Pene Maddock
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
- 17-Jul-2014 to 26-Jul-2014
- Writer: Alison Quigan
- Director: Craig Hutchison & Ray Williamson
A celebration of the comedy and tragedy of your typical 80's New Zealand School Ball.
Sex Drive
- 24-Apr-2014 to 03-May-2014
- Writer: Lorae Parry & Pinky Agnew
- Director: Craig Hutchison
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?
- 01-Jan-2014 to 31-Dec-2014
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- Director: Craig Hutchison
Supporting Canterbury Repertory Theatre's production of ARE YOU BEING SERVED.
Directed by Craig Hutchison, November 2014.
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Netballers
- 21-Nov-2013 to 30-Nov-2013
- Writer: Alison Quigan & Lucy Schmidt
- Director: Pene Maddock
A popular comedy about an electric group of women who play for the Red Hot Mamas' Social Club Netball Team.
Manic to Madness
- 03-Oct-2013 to 12-Oct-2013
- Writer: Karl Hitchcock & Nic Farra
- Director: Craig Hutchison
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)
- 13-Aug-2013 to 24-Aug-2013
- Writer: April Phillips
- Director: Todd Rippon
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
- 06-Jun-2013 to 14-Jun-2013
- Writer: April Phillips
- Director: Craig Hutchison
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)
- 09-Aug-2012 to 18-Aug-2012
- Writer: April Phillips
- Director: Craig Hutchison
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
- 09-Aug-2012 to 18-Aug-2012
- Writer: April Phillips
- Director: Craig Hutchison
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
- 09-Aug-2012 to 18-Aug-2012
- Writer: April Phillips
- Director: Craig Hutchison
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
- 07-Mar-2012 to 17-Mar-2012
- Writer: April Phillips
- Director: Craig Hutchison
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
- 01-Dec-2010 to 04-Dec-2010
- Writer: Devon Williamson
- Director: Craig Hutchison
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!
- 29-Jun-2010 to 02-Jul-2010
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- Director: Craig Hutchison
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
- 12-May-2010 to 22-May-2010
- Writer: Devon Williamson
- Director: Craig Hutchison
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
- 12-Aug-2009 to 22-Aug-2009
- Writer: Alison Quigan
- Director: Craig Hutchison
A celebration of the comedy and tragedy of your typical 80's New Zealand School Ball.
Ugly Customers (past)
- 12-Mar-2008 to 22-Mar-2008
- Writer: Joseph Musaphia
- Director: Craig Hutchison
A play which explores a frustration many of us recognise - the service, or lack of it, we receive from our financial institutions.
Stiff
- 15-Aug-2007 to 25-Aug-2007
- Writer: April Phillips
- Director: Craig Hutchison
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
- 09-Aug-2006 to 19-Aug-2006
- Writer: Anthony McCarten & Stephen Sinclair
- Director: Craig Hutchison
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
- 18-May-2005 to 28-May-2005
- Writer: Danny Mulheron & Stephen Sinclair
- Director: Craig Hutchison
Outrageous farce ensues when Anna arranges to have a meeting of her women's poetry group at her flat.