DUETS Opens At The Fortune Theater, Runs 2/20- 3/14

The New Zealand Premiere of Duets by Peter Quilter is directed by Lyndee-Jane Rutherford.
Duets is a gloriously funny examination of love, relationships and why the grass is never greener!

The Play:
Two actors play five sets of characters in five crucial moments - asking the questions: Is the grass greener? Would my life be better with or without this person? Duets is a fast, furious and hilarious tribute to mankind!

MEET: The Characters: Wendy & Jonathan as they meet for the first time on a date organized through a ‘singles' advertisement. Will they be a match made in heaven or is the only common factor their appalling bad taste?

The Director:
Lyndee-Jane Rutherford is thrilled to be back at The Fortune Theatre and Dunedin. Known widely as a comedienne, Fortune audiences may remember her for the collection of nurses, carers and rest home administrators she played in Roger Hall's Who Wants To Be 100? In a funny coincidence, after here she goes to Palmerston North to direct their version of Who Wants To Be 100?
Lyndee is fresh from directing a sell-out season of a new NZ play Becoming the Courtesan at BATS theatre in Wellington and last year directed the hugely successful season of Toi Cabaret- Anything Goes for the infamous Toi Whakaari/New Zealand Drama School and the rewarding season of Vigil for Centrepoint Theatre in Palmerston North.

She is extremely proud of winning Most Promising New Director of the Year at the Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards in Wellington in 2006 for her production of LovePuke by Dunedin born Duncan Sarkies.
Later on this year she is excited about directing a new play for the Young and Hungry Festival in Wellington.

duets is exciting because ... "the audience will see on stage the transformation of the actors in to the multiple characters, the costume and physically - the whole transformation."

duets opens February 20 - March 14
Showtimes: Tuesday 6pm
Wednesday - Saturday 7.30pm
Sunday 4pm

For more information contact the Fortune Theatre marketing department Louise Moulin or Kate Barlow on 03 477 1693 and please visit our website: www.fortunetheatre.co.nz
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