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Raymond Hawthorne
Raymond Benjamin Thomas Hawthorne (3 May 1936 – 5 April 2025) was a New Zealand theatre director, regarded as one of the country's most senior performing arts practitioners. Based in Auckland, he was founder of theatre company Theatre Corporate, director of the Mercury Theatre, Auckland, Mercury Theatre for seven years and influential in as a teacher and director over the many decades of his career. Background Hawthorne grew up in Hawke's Bay. He used to ride a horse to his schooling at Pakipaki, Pakipaki School (now Te Kura Pakipaki) and Hastings Boys' High School, Hastings High School. At age five, he won a primary school singing competition judged by Emma Natzke, the mother of Russian New Zealand opera singer Oscar Natzka. He also performed with Hawke's Bay community opera and theatrical companies. Career In 1955, Hawthorne became a member of the New Zealand Players, the nation's first major professional theatre company. It was directed by Richard Campion (theatre dir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hastings, New Zealand
Hastings (; , ) is an inland city of New Zealand and is one of the two major urban areas of New Zealand, urban areas in Hawke's Bay Region, Hawke's Bay, on the east coast of the North Island. The population of Hastings (including Flaxmere) is (as of with a further people in Havelock North and in Clive, New Zealand, Clive. Hastings is about 18 kilometres inland of the coastal city of Napier, New Zealand, Napier. These two neighbouring cities are often called "The Bay Cities" or "The Twin Cities". The city is the administrative centre of the Hastings District, New Zealand, Hastings District. Since the merger of the surrounding and satellite settlements, Hastings has grown to become one of the largest urban areas in Hawke's Bay. Hastings District is a food production region. The fertile Heretaunga Plains surrounding the city produce stone fruits, Pome, pome fruit, kiwifruit and vegetables, and the area is one of New Zealand's major red wine producers. Associated business incl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theatre Corporate
Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors to present experiences of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music, and dance. It is the oldest form of drama, though live theatre has now been joined by modern recorded forms. Elements of art, such as painted scenery and stagecraft such as lighting are used to enhance the physicality, presence and immediacy of the experience. Places, normally buildings, where performances regularly take place are also called "theatres" (or "theaters"), as derived from the Ancient Greek θέατρον (théatron, "a place for viewing"), itself from θεάομαι (theáomai, "to see", "to watch", "to observe"). Modern Western theatre comes, in large measure, from the theatre of ancient Greece, from which it borrows technical terminolog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
