FUEL 2006 – Festival of New Zealand Theatre
Festivals
Artistic Director, CEO and founder of New Zealand’s premiere national theatre festival.
Location: Hamilton, New Zealand
Dates / Year: 19 June – 8 July, 2006
Venues: Meteor Theatre, Waikato Museum, WEL Energy Trust Academy of Performing Arts
Sponsors Scottwood Group, WEL Energy Trust, Trust Waikato, Sky City Trust, Creative New Zealand, Lion Foundation, Hamilton Community Arts Council, University of Waikato, Hamilton City Council, Waikato Times, RadioWorks, Novotel Tainui, Environment Waikato, Calder and Lawson House of Travel
About
FUEL – Festival of New Zealand Theatre is an outstanding national arts event that showcases the ingenuity, inspiration and diversity of New Zealand theatre.
The 2006 program included sixty- four performances by twenty-five companies including the ground-breaking Pacific Island theatre company The Conch production of Vula, the chamber opera, The Prodigal Child, A House Across Oceans directed by Christian Penny, and the New Zealand International Festival of the Arts commission- King and Country.
The Festival hosted, in association with Playmarket New Zealand, the Aotearoa Playwrights Conference, bringing together New Zealand’s master playbuilders and theatre innovators for a week of development workshops.
The FUEL 4 Youth program offered a full range of theatrical experiences to students in the region with major productions in the Festival are also available as exclusive school matinees. The Festival also included the STIR– a youth-theatre commissioning project for emerging talent in the theatre arts.