Circa Play Readings - Funny Girl

Funny Girl by Anthony McCarte
12 March
Circa Theatre

Anthony McCarten (Ladies Night, The Theory of Everything) has dramatised his explosive novel; pleading to for tolerance, the freedom of individuals, and the freedom of art. Azime is 20 years old and shy. She is Kurdish but grew up in London. She lives in two different worlds. She secretly visits a comedy course, and later slips into a niqab and becomes the world's first Muslim comedian. Her appearance is explosive: her family is against her, the British press celebrates her as a sensation, and the Internet is hot with death threats.

Her appearance is explosive: her family is against her, the British press celebrates her as a sensation, and the Internet is hot with death threats.

In our 40th birthday year we are delighted to be part of the New Zealand Festival Writers Week. In true Circa traditiona New Zealand playwrights are centre stage.

Circa will celebrate the 100+ playwrights whose work has captivated audiences over the years; from Roger Hall's first play, Glide Time, in 1976 to Kate De Goldi's, The ACB with Honora Lee, adapted for stage by Jane Waddell and part of the 2016 festival.

A Play Reading will include actors on stage reading the play in full, directed and rehearsed in advance of the public reading.

Tickets are available from the Circa Box Office.

To reserve a ticket, please call the Box Office on 04 801 7992