The Gift

Multi-award winning actor Sarah Peirse stars in Auckland Theatre Company’s The Gift, a superb, funny, provocative new work by Joanna Murray–Smith about the anxieties of marriage, parenthood and creative life.

Sadie (Peirse) and Ed meet Martin (Simon London) and Chloë at a luxurious Pacific Island resort and instantly hit it off, despite coming from completely different worlds. When Martin (London) saves Ed’s life, everyone knows the debt can never be properly repaid. But Ed is rich and Chloe and Martin have a need so great it seems divine providence when Ed, wanting to show his gratitude, offers to gift them whatever they wish for. But what they want is surely a wish nobody could possibly grant.

"The Gift is theatre unnerving and vital enough to have you arguing about it all the way home." - The Age

In her slick, superb, very funny, provocative new work Murray-Smith tackles the anxieties of marriage, parenthood and creative life."

I've had the pleasure to direct two of Joanna Murray-Smith'shuge hits, Honour and The Female Of The Species. Both these plays have had performances throughout New Zealand, Australia, Britain, Europe and the United States. I'm looking forward to getting to work on this new one, which is a stylish and witty meditation on selfishness, and am thrilled to be working again with brilliant Kiwi actress Sarah Peirse, who we've enticed away from her busy Australian career to star in The Gift." - Colin

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