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Current Production

The Lady in the Van by Alan Bennett

Directed by Sian Davis

November 14 - 28, 2026, at The Rose Centre Theatre

‘A wonderfully bittersweet comic diary of the years in which a lethally dotty and very smelly old bat parked her unroadworthy vehicle in Bennett’s Camden garden, thereby providing him with roughly equal amounts of good journalistic copy and guilty landlord irritation’ –
The Spectator

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Information 

Venue: The Rose Theatre, 4 School Road, Belmont, Auckland

Running Time: 2 hours plus 20 minutes of interval

Standard Prices:

Adult - $30.00

Senior Gold card (65+) - $27.00

Student - $27.00  School Student - $15.00

Company Theatre Member - $27.00

Saturday Special:

$22 tickets - Opening Saturday 14 November performance only

Performance Times

Saturday 14 November 7.30pm — Saturday Special - Opening Night

Sunday 15 November  2.00pm — Matinee 

Wednesday 18 November   7.30pm

Thursday 19 November  7.30pm

Friday 20 November  7.30pm

Saturday 21 November  4.00pm —  NEW TIME  

Sunday 22 November  2.00pm — Matinee 

Wednesday 25 November  7.30pm

Thursday 26 November    7.30pm

Friday 27 November   7.30pm

Saturday 28 November  7.30pm — Closing Night


CAST
Miss Shepherd played by Susan Hargraves
Alan Bennett played by Reg Williams 
Alan Bennett 2 played by Scott Hayden
Mam/Leone Fairchild/Undertaker 1 played by Donna Franks 
Rufus/Underwood/Undertaker 2 played by Mark Jensen 
Pauline played by Ann-Marie (Anna) Jacobs 
Social Worker/Council Worder 1/Ambulance Crew played by Emma Taylor 
Mam’s doctor/Miss Shepherd’s Doctor/Interviewer/Council Worker 2 played by Heidi Bremner 
Lout, Priest/Ambulance Driver/Man with Wheelbarrow played by Richard Jones 


PRODUCTION TEAM

Director Sian Davis
Director’s Assistant/Production Manager Kathy Gent
Stage Manager Lauren Brenner
Stage Crew Sherry Yang
Set Design/build Scott Thomas
Set Assistant Anne Rimmer
Costumes Siobhan McPherson
Sound and Lighting Stephen Hood
Music Richard Jones
Social Media Rhema Sutherland
Programme Catherine Maunsell
Props Sarah Dettwiler, Vettinia Ross, Sherry Yang
Website Sherry Ede
Bar Sherry Ede/Linda Camplin
Front of House Lesley Hawkey 

With thanks to Kathryn Nobbs Photography. 

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