At the Bay – by Katherine Mansfield

Wellesley College at Days Bay is the perfect setting for the first screening of this production. It is one of the few buildings that survive from 1908, when Mansfield stayed at her parents’ cottage at nearby Downes Point. Known then as Days Bay House, a hotel, the impressive facade of the main building is much the same today. The feature is a new production by local film maker Simon Hoyle (Southlight) and includes actors from Eastbourne’s Butterfly Creek Theatre Group. Directed by Anne Manchester, it also draws on many contemporary images of the setting for “At the Bay”, chosen by historian Alison Carew.

Mansfield scholar and musician, Martin Griffiths (cello), together with pianist Sherry Grant, will perform pieces by Edwin Carr, Arnold Trowell and one of Mansfield’s favourite composers, Chopin.

Redmer Yska, the author of the acclaimed book about Mansfield’s early childhood, A Strange Beautiful Excitement, will talk about his new book about Mansfield’s years in Europe.

A discussion of the project and a profile of one of the actors, Sir Ashley Bloomfield, can be
found at: https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/film/131918675/sir-ashley-bloomfield-back-in-front-of-the-camera-with-new-acting-gig

 Sunday 2 July 2023
 7.00 pm – 8.30 pm
 Auditorium, Wellesley College, Days Bay, Lower Hutt 5013

$16.20  Tickets for At The Bay – Wellington – Eventfinda