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There are lovely reviews on 3news.co.nz and Stuff.co.nz on The Vagina Monologues, in particular, they mention both Beth Allen’s and Antonia Prebble’s performance in the production.
Here’s what 3news.co.nz said about Antonia Prebble:
With sass and spunk Antonia Prebble delivered a great monologue on the angry vagina. She listed her character’s reasons and summed up that a more vagina-friendly world would eliminate tampons, g-strings and the chilling unpleasantness of visits to the gynaecologist.
And on Beth Allen:
Beth Allen deftly portrayed pain, confusion and panic during one of her monologues when her character feared she’d lost her clitoris. There was a happy ending to the tale however and again Allen captured the elation and joy of her character’s freedom and empowerment.
Gabrielle Henderson, Jodie Rimmer and Rachel Nash are also mentioned in the review as they feature in the same ‘shift’ as Beth and Antonia in The Vagina Monologues.
The Stuff.co.nz review said the following: “Last night I was lucky enough to stumble upon Brooke from Shortland Street (Beth Allen) with the bonus of Loretta from Outrageous Fortune (Antonia Prebble). Both were very engaging, as were the other ladies who joined them – Gabrielle Henderson, Rachel Nash and Jodie Rimmer”.
With thanks to Jess of AntoniaPrebble.com for the info and to BethAllen.Webs.
For more details on The Vagina Monologues, currently running at the Basement Theatre in Auckland, click here.
 Antonia Prebble has landed the role of Sally Bowles at The Court Theatre, Christchurch, in their future production of Cabaret – perfect casting!
Antonia Prebble will be singing, dancing and acting. Talk about a triple threat!
The news came via their Twitter account, follow them to keep updated.
In an interview with the Auckland City Harbour News, by Rhiannon Horrel, Fleur Saville speaks about the upcoming theatre production of The Vagina Monologues. You can read the article online at Stuff.co.nz or below…
Key quote from Fleur: “Come along, it’s a great play for groups of women to get a bottle of vino and relate to.”
- So you better get on down! Full details on the production, running from Wednesday 25th August 2010 to Saturday 11th September 2010, can be found here. Photo of Fleur Saville is by Jason Oxenham.
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Check out these lovely promo images for the Auckland 2010 stage production of The Vagina Monologues. The VM features a plethora of talented New Zealand actors, amongst them Antonia Prebble (Outrageous Fortunes Loretta West/Trudy in The Tribe), Beth Allen (Shortland Street’s Dr Brooke Freeman/Tribe’s Amber) and Fleur Saville (Shortys Libby Jeffries/Being Eve/Tribe’s Ruby).
The Vagina Monologues will run from August 25th -September 11th 2010 at the Basement Theatre, Auckland. To book your tickets visit iTicket, more info can be found on The Vagina Monologues Facebook page.
The full cast of The Vagina Monologues have been been split into teams of four and when you turn up at the Basement you won’t know which four will perform the monologues for you on the night… However, the comments on this pic here reveal the nights Beth Allen will be on stage! Also Beth Allen talks about the production on Shortland Street’s website.
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Many of us first came across Beth Allen as Amber in The Tribe. Our fondness of The Tribe, the storylines, tribal gear and the actors may have had some New Zealanders scratching their head wondering ‘What’s with all this Tribe malarky?’ – the series never caught on in it’s homeland.
To those in the know The Tribe was a cult TV series filmed in Wellington, New Zealand, and spanned a total of five seasons accumulating a total of 260 episodes. It had quiet a following in Europe, USA and currently in Australia.
In an interview with Nicola Russell, for The Sunday News, Beth talks about what attracted her to the up-coming theatre production The Vagina Monologues (which Beth is producing as well starring in), filming her current role as Dr. Brooke Freeman in Shortland Street and also talks about The Tribe…
Here’s some quotes from Beth Allen on The Tribe:
“It did really well. It’s inexplicable to me, because to me it was fine but it wasn’t an Emmy award-winning drama but it seemed to have found a little niche in its audiences and internationally it’s still huge.”
“They are the most dedicated fans. And it went on for years, we shot the first series and I thought, `well, that’s that’ and we shot it for another four years.”
Shortland Street publicist Rachael Keereweer is also quoted as saying, “I don’t know how they figure it out but the minute anyone from The Tribe turns up on Shortland Street they’ll email and ask for pictures”. (Lol!)
There are a few more Tribe references in the article by Nicola Russell. Read the full article here or below. More information on Beth Allen can be found on her official Facebook page and also at the fansite BethAllen.Webs.
The Vagina Monologues will be run at the Basement Theatre in Auckland, August 25th – September 11th 2010. To book tickets click here.
With thanks to Shorty fan Emma H for the article info. Continue reading…
 Earlier this week Antonia Prebble was starring in a stage production called Idiots, written by Nic Sampson and directed by Tom Sainsbury, Peter Salmon, Dena Kennedy and Jonathan Brugh.
Idiots is a comedy production that follows a set of, er, Idiots as they go about their daily activities… Antonia got a good review in her role as the ‘disingenuous receptionist’ on TheatreReview.org which said: “… Antonia Prebble’s performance in the ‘Receptionists’ scenes (where the bitchy receptionist shows the new assistant receptionist the ropes… or the staples, as it happens); a particularly hackneyed theme which rarely enjoys such comic perfection”.
The production ran for three nights at Te Karanga Gallery, Auckland on 20th July 2010 to 22nd July 2010. And what made a change from usual theatre productions is that at the end viewers were asked to pay what they thought the production was worth, so it ran on a ‘pay what you think it’s worth!’ basis. More details are in the press release (below). Continue reading…
Fleur Saville, Beth Allen and Antonia Prebble are just three (of the many) top New Zealand actresses to appear in The Vagina Monologues at the Basement theatre.
The Facebook page here has more info (also pasted below).
 News comes via @Jebrill from (the recently updated) Tribe-Cast.com (the Fleur Saville pic can be seen in better detail there).
As previously mentioned, Beth Allen is also producing as well featuring in the production and all three actresses are definitely no strangers to the stage. If you’re in the area head on down, the Vagina Monologues will run during August 25th -September 11th 2010 at the Basement Theatre, Auckland.
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 Beth Allen has recently been on stage in the Lily Richards & Thomas Sainsbury produced The Sinful Monologues. The production ran at Te Karanga Gallery in Auckland during 25th to 27th May 2010.
The Sinful Monologues cover the seven deadly sins, each monologue is written by a different writer. The TheatReView said the following of Beth Allen who performs the monologue Lilith, written by Lily Richards:
Lilith
Lilith gets to the fiery gates of Hell and has quite a lot to say for herself before she signs God’s contract. Beth Allen plays a feisty Lilith, in Lily Richards’ light-n-tasty treatise on the original battle of the sexes.
In another featured article The TheatReView talked about forth coming Beth Allen projects:
Beth is currently on the telly playing Brooke Freeman on Shortland Street, where she gets to wear killer heels and say nasty things. She’s producing and acting in The Vagina Monologues at The Basement Theatre in August and doing the same for a Christmas show written by Natalie Medlock and Dan Musgrove in December. She loves Lamebook.com, new stationery and poached pears.
 So in August Beth Allen will be in the Vagina Monologues and in December looks like she’ll be doing more comedy with comedians Natalie Medlock and Dan Musgrove (they recently worked with Fleur).
With thanks to BethAllen.Webs for the news, where it appeared first. Check it out! [This post has been backdated]
Here’s some Dwayne Cameron news for his fans out there!
Earlier this month Dwayne Cameron was filming in a short film in Auckland called The Puzzle. The short film is directed by Danny Phillips, it is set in 2010 and is about a woman who loves doing jigsaw puzzles, but then one day ends up in a puzzle she’s working on – an 1880s house.
Jill Roberts who plays the lead role in the short film told The Timaru Herald about working on the short. She said about Dwayne Cameron: “Dwayne is an excellent actor, a very strong but subtle performer”.
More news… According to his updated agency profile, Dwayne has been in rehearsals for an up coming Thomas Sainsbury theatre production The Continental Monologues at the Te Karanga Gallery. Dwayne already featured in Thomas’ play Psychopaths earlier this year. I’m guessing The Continental Monologues will open to theatre audiences later this year.
Fleur Saville appeared on the TVNZ Good Morning show to promote The Gaint Face – a comedy theatre production, running as part of 2010′s New Zealand Comedy Festival. Check the interview out below…
Fleur features in the stage production with her former Shortland Street co-star Harry McNaughton. In the interview Fleur also talks about leaving Shortland Street.
Ooh and according to this article here Antonia Prebble (who was Trudy in The Tribe, now a New Zealand starlet) will get a bit of a send up in the production The Giant Face… (She’s not starring in, but will be parodied I guess!)
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New Tomorrow 
"Saaay whaaaat?"... The Tribe spin-off series The New Tomorrow is currently showing on channel Five in the UK around 5:00am in the morning!
Check out: TVguide.co.uk.
DVD Deal… Miriama Smith (The Tribe's Moz), Tom Hern and James Napier (Tecno boy's Ram and Jay) have lead roles in Dino Thunder. The series also guest stars Dwayne Cameron (Bray) and Antonia Prebble (Trudy). Own the complete series now in this 7 disk DVD set!
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