Places to go: Glen Eden Playhouse and Flicks Titirangi

Black Adder in Love

After a very quiet 2020, which saw all planned shows cancelled, Playhouse Theatre Incorporated is bursting back into life with a medley of three Black Adder episodes highlighting the misadventures in love of Edmund Black Adder.

Taken from the original scripts which have been revered by fans of great comedy for the past 38 years, Black Adder is still outrageous and still very, very silly.

The scripts feature a raft of comical characters including Baldrick, Lord Percy, Lord Flashheart, Kate/Bob and of course the witty, ruthless, unlucky-in-love Edmund Black Adder.

Directed by award winning Bob Lack, Black Adder in Love will be a night out that will make you laugh out loud, full of plans so cunning you could put a tail on them and call them a weasel, and twists and turns like a twisty turny thing.

When: April 17 – May 1

Where: The Playhouse Theatre, Glen Eden

Bookings: http://www.playhousetheatreinc.com or from Eventfinda

>> Inventor, communications engineer ... and violinist

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“For nearly 40 years I played in a four piece band called The Country Accent. Our lead vocalists were country music award winners and we enjoyed repeat bookings everywhere.”

David says he rarely visits clubs these days. “After playing in bands for so long just watching is not too satisfying. The friendly Pinnacle CM Club and The Waitematā CM Club hold great memories and remain the best clubs I know of.”

Also a keen craftsman and inventor, David built his own violin.

“Hewitt’s fiddle shop in Auckland sold me the traditional wedges of spruce and maple, the purflin strips and willow pieces. For the neck I was sold an old maple piano leg which was just big enough to make a neck and scroll in one piece. I paid only $150 for nearly all the required wood, a ‘gift’ really! Cath at the Stringed Instrument Shop supplied the hide glue and lent me a taper reamer to properly make peg holes. She might have thought I was mad. I couldn’t justify buying expensive specialist tools so I made my own.

“It is the best-sounding violin I have ever owned and the one I play most. It is unlikely I could make another as good and I am not going to try. It took just over two months, though I never realised how the imperfections would be magnified after varnishing!

“I also built theremins, lap steel guitars and flutes. The violin pickup I invented gained a US patent – 6,274,801, B1. dated August 14, 2001. My Dad wrote and had music published, but I never did. My highlights in music are winning that senior instrumental in the Auckland Town Hall, and building my lovely violin.”

David hopes to be busking in Titirangi again soon – Covid permitting. Look out for him there, and check out David’s musical and radio communication endeavours at http://www.zl1bjq.co.nz, http://www. zl1bjq.co.nz/myfiddle/ and http://www.zl1bjq.co.nz/tesla2/silentnight. m4v (Silent Night on a theremin).

FLICKS cinema (Titirangi) will be showing the newly-released The Pinkies Are Back as a special fund raising event for Breast Cancer Research on Wednesday April 14. In this feature-length documentary the Pink Dragons are back to have a crack at the Auckland regional championships after doing well at the nationals. The Pink Dragons team is made up of breast cancer survivors who use the sport to exercise and find a feeling of community. Although the team has a few veterans, many have never so much as touched a paddle. This is a heart-warming and hilarious film. (“Oh my god, that was the most exhilarating performance ever! Maybe better than sex”– says one team member after a race.) Showing at Lopdell House Theatre; 6pm and 8pm; tickets $15 adult, $12 concessions from eventfinda. co.nz and on door if not sold out. Text bookings to 0210 222 5558.

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