Steel Magnolias

Steel Magnolias is a comedy-drama about the bond among a group of Southern women in Louisiana. As the title suggests, the female characters are “as delicate as magnolias but as tough as steel”.
The play opens at Truvy’s in-home beauty parlour where a group of women regularly gather. They discuss Shelby’s upcoming wedding to her fiancé, Jackson. The plot covers events over the next three years relating to Shelby’s Type 1 diabetes, and with how the women cope with their conflicts, while remaining friends.

Rams – The Movie

In remote Western Australia, two estranged brothers, Colin (Sam Neill) and Les (Michael Caton), are at war. Raising separate flocks of sheep descended from their family’s prized bloodline, the two men work side by side yet are worlds apart. When Les’s prize ram is diagnosed with a rare and lethal illness, authorities order a purge of every sheep in the valley. While Colin attempts to stealthily outwit the powers that be, Les opts for angry defiance. But can the warring brothers set aside their differences and have a chance to reunite their family, save their flock, and bring their community back together?

Rams is rated for PG audiences.
Tickets $10 adults; $5 school pupils.

Sunday 28 July 2024 2:00pm

NOTE: Tickets are non refundable once purchased, the exceptions to this are if OSPA changes the dates or times of the shows

OSPA INDOOR MARKET

Coming to Onewhero Society of Performing Arts this month!

A local indoor market with crafts, clothing, food and more.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Jubilation Choir

STARS COMING TO OSPA

Jubilation can’t wait to head south with a sea of harmony, for one night only at OSPA Theatre on Sunday 23 June.

Jubilation strives to live in that magic place where music really leaps off the stage and into the hearts of the audience. By marrying absolute attention to detail from the choral tradition to the exhilarating freedom of soloists lost in improvisation, Jubilation creates a truly unique, soulful rock’n’roll experience for audiences of all ages.

Put the date in your diary now because where else would you near NZ theatre icon Jennifer Ward-Lealand Te Atamira CNZM let loose in a gospel quartet Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody, or actor/writer Fiona Samuel MNZM melt hearts on the traditional folk song Poor Wayfaring Stranger, or entertainer extraordinaire Jackie Clarke MNZM bring the house down with vintage Tom Waits?

Steel Magnolias

OSPA is very excited to call for auditions for this amazing play by Robert Harling, which later became the movie we all know and love.

Hilarious and touching, this play for six women is set in a beauty parlour in Louisiana. Through four scenes spannin three years, the staff and customers engage in small-town gossip. But we see a deep strength and purposefulness emerge when Shelby – a diabetic – dies following a kidney transplant operation.

Auditions are at OSPA in Hall Rad, Onewhero, on 11 and 12 May 2024.

This is going to be a play you won’t want to miss!

magnoliasospa@gmail.com

Operation Mincemeat

The ground-level realities of military intelligence operations make fine fodder for this entertaining true story behind a huge gambit undertaken by the British during World War II.

In 1943, the Allies need Hitler to think they’re about to invade Greece, when in fact it’s Sicily they’re heading for.

Operation Mincemeat stars Colin Firth. It is rated for mature audiences.

OSPA AGM

NOTICE OF OSPA ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

The Annual General Meeting of Onewhero Society of Performing Arts Inc. will take place at OSPA Theatre at 7.30pm on Wednesday 17 April 2024.

Clue

Inspired by the classic Hasbro board game, Clue is a hilarious farce-meets-murder mystery. The tale begins at a remote mansion, where six mysterious guests assemble for an unusual dinner party with murder and blackmail on the menu. When their host turns up dead, they all become suspects. Led by the butler, Wadsworth, Miss Scarlet, Professor Plum, Mrs White, Mr Green, Mrs Peacock and Colonel Mustard race to find the killer as the body count stacks up. Clue is the comedy whodunit that will leave audiences in stitches as they try to figure out…WHO did it, WHERE, and with WHAT!

Friday and Saturday evenings at 7:30pm, Sunday Matinees at 2pm.

Arts on Tour NZ Presents … Whirimako Black

We are gutted to announce that due to unforeseen circumstances, Whirimako Black will no longer be able to visit Onewhero this week! We are so sorry for any disappointment this may cause.

We’d like to take this opportunity to thank all you awesome people who got out and pre-bought tickets – we would have had a good crowd! You will receive an email with refund details for your ticket if you bought on-line, or if you have purchased a ticket from the Urban Market please return your tickets to them for a full refund. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact Ellise on 027 433 9743.

Arts on Tour NZ presents… Austen Found

“Jane Austen would be turning in her grave with delight…Rollicking good fun!” – Rip It Up Adelaide

“Austen Found: The Undiscovered Musicals of Jane Austen is the good pavlova, the one someone has taken a few goes to get just right. The brilliant version.” – Waikato Times

Addicted to Darcy? Lost all Sense and Sensibility? Bonkers for Big Balls? Well put down your cross-stitching and join Penny Ashton, Lori Dungey and Jamie Burgess, as they swoon, romp, and pianoforte their way through an entirely improvised Austenian Musical. Charming suitors, meddlesome mothers, tight breeches and surprisingly well-educated girls will all paint a vivid picture in song, dance and passionate handholding.

For her fifth Arts on Tour NZ Penny Ashton (Olive Copperbottom, Promise and Promiscuity, Sense and Sensibility – The Court Theatre, Hot Pink Bits) is bringing along her most accomplished improvising friend; Lori Dungey (M3GAN, Lord of the Rings, Xena) and her most melodical musical maestro; Jamie Burgess (Canterbury Opera, K Rd Strip, Basil Fawlty) to perambulate the NZ countryside spreading laughter and delightful bonnets as they go. An entirely improvised Austenian Musical.

Complete Sell-out Comedy Festival (2007 and 2021) and Adelaide Fringe (2010)

“Penny Ashton and Lory Dungey – two excellent improvisers who know what they’re doing.” – Dominion Post