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Aranui's Romeo & Juliet, 2007From school drama to professional theatre and everything in-between.

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* Canterbury Repertory
The Canterbury Repertory Theatre Society (Inc.) is committed to staging five productions per year, filling all the key roles from its membership. Repertory is run by volunteers who love entertaining and being involved.
* The Court Theatre
Canterbury's professional theatre company
* Drama groups and classes
Search the CINCH community database for groups and classes in Christchurch and Canterbury.
* Free Theatre Christchurch
Stages old and new rarely staged European plays in original translations, new New Zealand plays, and classical English texts in an unusual and experimental style. Free Theatre Christchurch consistently strives for its productions to be "free": free from social conventions, free from political limitations, free from audience expectations and, as much as possible in contemporary society, free from bottom-line financial considerations.
* Pacific Underground
Christchurch based music and performing arts group who perform concerts, and stage theatre productions throughout the Pacific. Former members include Oscar Kightley, Ladi 6, and Joe Dukie.
* Stage Challenge
Part of the Global Rock Challenge - a global effort to encourage young people to make the best choices they can. The concept was introduced into New Zealand in 1993 and travels nationwide.
* Stage One
StageOne has been specifically designed for young people and offers classes in acting, physical movement, voice and character analysis plus opportunities for you to research scenes and characters in depth. The course involves a complete shift away from the more traditional game-playing, improvisation-based teaching models because the people at StageOne believe that young students are more capable than this.