Sian Davis
The House of Angels first came to my notice back in 2015. Ruth Mayo had written the play the year before and sent it for comment to a mutual friend in New Zealand. He gathered a group of actors together to read and to make suggestions about possible changes to the script and I was one of those participating. I was much taken by the play’s quirkiness and strong characterisations, loosely based on some of the Mercury Theatre actors of the ’70s, with whom Ruth had acted and knew well. Folk I remembered also. Sian Davis has attachments to ‘the territory’ and from much the same time. After much stage experience, Sian turned to directing in 1998. (Not totally true as she had directed at school as a teacher.) The 1998 opener was Hedda Gabler, which really gave her a taste for ‘quality stuff’. Since then she has directed a melange of the classical and most wonderful (in her book) and, occasionally, the not-soentrancing – an eclectic mix in any case. From Twelfth Night for the Auckland University’s Summer Shakespeare (2004) to The Mousetrap for Company Theatre (2012) – her ‘ditziest’ in her accounting – which was probably the most popular of her productions with audiences. |
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For Ellerslie Theatre | The House of Angels(2018) | director |
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Social Climbers(2015) | director | |
Loot(2013) | director | |
Cherish(2011) | director | |
Doubt: A Parable(2009) | director | |
Picasso At The Lapin Agile(2005) | director | |
Wit(2003) | director | |
The Farm(2002) | director |