Waiheke Theatre Company are busy rehearsing for their upcoming production of Calendar Girls which opens at Artworks Theatre on Wednesday 1 July.
The play, written by Tim Firth, is based on the extraordinary true story of a group of middle-aged Yorkshire women who produced their own nude calendar in April 1999.
Annie, whose husband John is diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and her best friend Chris, decide to raise money to buy a new sofa for the family waiting room at the Skipton General Hospital. Together they come up with the idea of creating a nude calendar featuring members of their local Women’s Institute, with strategically placed props so the ladies don’t reveal all.
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