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Written by
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
After their father dies, the Lafayette siblings gather at their crumbling ancestral estate to clear out the family house for sale. There, they discover the most unexpected of secrets and are forced to confront realities they would prefer had never been revealed. At once familiar yet shocking, Appropriate’s audacious and unexpected humour will leave you as open-mouthed as its revelations.
“A bracingly clever play, as twisted and pointed as a corkscrew... viciously funny and profoundly unsettling... Jacobs-Jenkins springs many surprises as his drama runs its suspenseful and gripping course.”
– WhatsOnStage
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Key Dates
- 6 May 2023: Opening night
- 8 May 2023: Forum - a special performance where audiences get to ask cast and crew questions after the show
- 9 May 2023: Pay what you can
- 27 May 2023: Matinee performance at 4pm
- 3 June 2023: Matinee Communication Friendly performance at 2pm
- 3 June 2023: Closing night
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Tickets
- Adult $62 - $68
- Senior (65+) $55 - $62
- Group (6+) 10% Discount on Standard Adult, Friends, Child and Senior price tickets
- Friends of The Court Theatre $52 - $58
- Child (under 18) $34
- Student $34
- Community Services or Hāpai Access cardholders $34
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Subscribe
Appropriate is included in your Super Subscription, or you can bundle it with at least two other shows to Build Your Own subscription.
If you want more Drama in your life, you could create a Drama Lover’s Subscription with:
- Rēwena
- Be Like Billy
- Next to Normal
- The Haka Party Incident
Add on - Sweet Science of Bruising (Performed by our Youth Company)
If you want more to see more New Zealand premieres, you could create a Premiere Subscription with:
- Sense and Sensibility
- Be Like Billy
- The Appleton Ladies Potato Race (NZ professional premiere)
- Something Rotten!
If you want more some more laughs in your life, you could create a Shades of Comedy Subscription with:
- Sense and Sensibility
- The Appleton Ladies Potato Race
- Dance Nation
- Something Rotten!
Add on – Scared Scriptless, Scriptless Attempts and The Jesters’ Holiday Show
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Covid – Your Booking is Safe with Us
To minimise the impact of possible Covid-related closures we employ understudies and swings for our cast and have contingencies to cover essential crew absences.
However, if a performance is affected by Covid and cannot go on, you will not lose out. We will attempt to rebook you to another performance in the show’s season or, if that is not possible, we can explore other options with you such as Court account credits or transferring your tickets to another show.
There are currently no Covid-related restrictions on attending The Court Theatre. However, as always, we encourage you to be mindful of good hygiene, for the sake of your own health, and that of other members of the audience, our cast, crew and staff.
If a show is cancelled:
- Performances most immediately impacted will be texted – to ensure that your details are up-to-date for this purpose, please log into your account (top right on our web pages) and review them now.
- Emails will be sent to all patrons affected outlining the dates of affected performance and the process that will follow to rebook. Typically this will be:
- rebooking your seats for the same night of the week within the following two weeks,
- endeavouring to book you into a similar spot in the auditorium, if possible.
- We telephone anyone we cannot contact via email.
- Your new booking will be emailed to you. If you require further changes, please email us.
We ask people not to phone our Box Office but rather to email us with special requests – this is easier for the team to handle when dealing with significant rebookings.