Auckland Theatre Company - Creative Learning 2025
Auckland Theatre Company's 2025 11am schools programme is selling fast.
Each performance is followed by a Q&A with cast and creatives, and we offer workshops to unpack the plays.
In 2025 every school group booking includes a free recording of the production, and an education pack with curriculum linked resources.
Please get in touch to chat through the plays or to book in your ākonga.
Sam Phillips
Head of Learning & Participation
a mixtape for maladies
By Ahi Karunaharan
4 – 23 Mar
Seventeen tracks on an old mixtape reveal bittersweet memories of a family’s resilience behind every song.
School Matinees: Wed 12 Mar 11am, Thurs 20 Mar 11am
Curriculum Connections: Theatre Aotearoa, stories and histories from Sri Lanka, live music
Suitability: Year levels 11 – 13
Advisory: Includes themes of war and trauma
Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express
adapted for the stage by Ken Ludwig
22 April – 10 May
One murder, eight suspects and a wild ride that’s about to go off the rails.
School Matinees: Wed 7 May 11am
Curriculum Connections: Crime and mystery fiction, ensemble cast
Suitability: Year levels 11 – 13
Advisory: Includes references to the death of a child and suicide, depictions of death
William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet
15 Jul – 9 Aug
The greatest love story of all time, set in 1960’s Verona. Directed by Benjamin Kilby-Henson.
School Matinees: Thurs 7 Aug 11am (Wed 23 Jul, Fri 25 Jul, Wed 30 Jul, Fri 1 Aug booked out)
Curriculum Connections: Elizabethan Theatre
Suitability: Year levels 9 – 13
Advisory: Includes depictions of drug use, suicide and violence.
MARY: The Birth of Frankenstein
by Jess Sayer
19 Aug – 7 Sep
A terrifying re-imagining of the night Mary Shelley became the mother of horror.
School Bookings: School groups welcome to attend evening performances
Curriculum Connections: Theatre Aotearoa, Gothic Literature, NZ Feminist Theatre
Suitability: Year level 13
Advisory: Includes offensive language, depictions of drug use, sexual content and violence
TIRI: TE ARAROA
WOMAN FAR WALKING
By Witi Ihimaera
4 – 23 Nov
I am 185 years old. I was born on 6 February 1840.
185 taku pakeke 6 o Pēpuere 1840 taku rā whānau.
For the first time, Witi Ihimaera’s extraordinary play will be performed in both English and te reo Māori, with both versions capturing the enduring spirit of Te Ao Māori.
School Matinees: Thurs 20 Nov 11am
Curriculum Connections: Theatre Aotearoa, Te reo Māori, Contemporary Māori performance, NZ Feminist Theatre, Monologue.
Suitability: Year level 9-13
Advisory/Whakatūpato: Includes descriptions of violence.