{"id":31995,"date":"2015-02-24T14:56:33","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T00:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=31995"},"modified":"2021-09-29T14:41:41","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T00:41:41","slug":"new-zealand-theatre-troupe-presents-the-brave-at-the-leeward-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2015\/02\/24\/new-zealand-theatre-troupe-presents-the-brave-at-the-leeward-theatre\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand theatre troupe presents The Brave at The Leeward Theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/brave-banner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/brave-banner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"273\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-31993\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/brave-banner.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/brave-banner-260x177.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Family, love, loss, fear, hope, belonging, manhood and brotherhood are resounding themes of New Zealand theatre troupe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massivecompany.co.nz\/\">Massive Company&#8217;s<\/a> original production <em>The Brave<\/em>, to be shown at <a href=\"http:\/\/lcctheatre.hawaii.edu\/\">The Leeward Theatre<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leeward.hawaii.edu\/\">Leeward Community College<\/a> on March 7. Directed by Sam Scott and Carla Martell but devised by the entire company, <em>The Brave<\/em> is a bold and honest work that interweaves the stories of eight diverse Auckland based men to share their most sincere ponderings on what it takes to be a man.<\/p>\n<p>Created from true stories in Massive Company&#8217;s own style and method of devised theater, the eight actors were asked to write letters to important people&#8212;those who are, once were or perhaps never were in their lives&#8212;opening a floodgate of untold stories and survival tactics. Combining true confessions with raw athleticism, <em>The Brave<\/em> lays it all on the line.<\/p>\n<h2>Ticket information<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>$25 general admission<\/li>\n<li>$20 senior\/military\/<abbr>UH<\/abbr> system students, faculty and staff<\/li>\n<li>$15 Leeward <abbr>CC<\/abbr> student and children 18 under <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To purchase tickets, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/LCCTheatre.hawaii.edu\/\">The Leeward Theatre website<\/a> or call the box office at (808) 455-0380.<\/p>\n<h2>Massive Company<\/h2>\n<p>Massive Company is New Zealand&#8217;s leading theater company in creating and presenting experimental work by emerging and professional New Zealand practitioners. Through 21 years of devising and collaborating with leading playwrights, the Auckland ensemble theater company creates work where individuals are deeply seen.<\/p>\n<p>Describing themselves as a company of curious people their work is inspired by real life and presented in any combination of authentic physical and verbal story telling. According to the New Zealand listener, Massive Company show will &ldquo;enrich, enliven and entertain&rdquo; using stories combined with &ldquo;raw visceral movement and deep powerful articulation of the personal to explore universals.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Massive Company strives to engage their audiences with thought-provoking work that lives with them well beyond the theatre. <\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<em>A Leeward Community College news release<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Family, love, loss, fear, hope, belonging, manhood and brotherhood are resounding themes of Massive Company&#8217;s <em>The Brave<\/em> presented at The Leeward Theatre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[65,196,130,71],"class_list":["post-31995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-leeward-community-college","tag-leeward-community-college-theatre","tag-theatre","tag-uh-community-colleges","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31995"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148929,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31995\/revisions\/148929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}