Colin McColl News

This June Auckland Theatre Company presents BLACK CONFETTI, a new play from award-winning writer Eli Kent, playing June 28 through to July 22 at the Herald Theatre.

Everyone in the remote township of Omoana is proud of Matt Paku, who left the East Coast to train as a doctor and now has a successful practice in Auckland. Proudest of all is his old, blind father Werihe, who basks in this success via his son's letters which are read to him by Emma Gilhooly, the no-nonsense local postmistress. Every New Year's Eve, Matt comes home and the whole community celebrates. But things are different this year: Gilhooly has devastating news; news that she must keep from old Werihe at all costs if he's to hold onto his belief in his son.

The TelstraClear season of Roger Hall's A SHORTCUT TO HAPPINESS by Auckland Theatre Company opens in Auckland tonight, June 7 and continues through to June 30, 2012 before moving down the country.

This June Auckland Theatre Company presents BLACK CONFETTI, a new play from award-winning writer Eli Kent, playing June 28 through to July 22 at the Herald Theatre.

The TelstraClear season of Roger Hall's A SHORTCUT TO HAPPINESS by Auckland Theatre Company opens in Auckland June 7 and continues through to June 30, 2012 before moving down the country.

Auckland Theatre Company's season of William Shakespeare's A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM opened May 3 and plays through to May 26, 2012 at the Maidment Theatre, Auckland.