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Helen Moulder from New Zealand received rave
reviews for her performance in the solo play Playing Miss Havisham
on September 25, 2010. The New York performance, sponsored by the
Dickens Fellowship of New York, directly followed a successful
tour in England and represented the United States premiere of the play.
The appreciative audience of Fellowship members as well as the general
public enthusiastically applauded Ms. Moulder's virtuoso performance.
Playing Miss Havisham is
an
intimate comedy with music, song and an array of endearing characters
including
Claudia who lives an hour and five out of Christchurch.
Her husband is a farm accountant and her son Ben plays in a band. When
an eccentric Irish film-maker comes to New Zealand
to make a film of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, Claudia is keen
to audition for the role of Miss Havisham as she sees it as a way out of
her humdrum existence. As she prepares for the role, Claudia finds her
own life takes on the twists and turns of a Dickens novel.
A work of unexpected visual richness, Playing
Miss Havisham unfolds with mystery, music and surprise.
The play is directed by Sue Rider and
features music by Bach, Chopin, Schubert, Granados, Debussy & Gareth
Farr recorded on the piano by Richard Mapp. Ms. Moulder will perform the play
as an entertainment feature at the International Dickens
Conference in Christchurch, New Zealand in April, 2011.
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