Some of the Kerikeri Calendar Girls cast and calendar models - Judy Terry (left), Les Robinson, Penny Gorrie, Viv Thonger, Trudie Smith, Jocelyn Kroll, Stefanie Crawley, Denise Nawisielski, Janette Walker, Gill West and Janine Snowling. Picture / Peter de Graaf
A small group of Kerikeri women are preparing to bare almost all in the name of entertainment and charity.
The Stage Door Theatre Company's production of Calendar Girls, the heart-warming, humorous play that has toured the world raising money for cancer charities since the 1990s, will play the Turner Centre
over Thursday to Saturday next week (August 1-3) at 7pm, with one last show at 4pm on the Sunday.
Calendar Girls, which was a hugely successful movie, was inspired by the true story of a Women's Institute in Yorkshire that set about raising funds for a couch at a cancer unit in memory of the husband of one of the members. They agreed to pose nude in a raunchier — but still tasteful — version of their annual fundraising calendar.
Credit for bringing the play to Kerikeri goes to Stage Door Theatre Company committee member Jenny Blackler.
Artistic director David Crewe said the play "has everything," and the cast had truly got on board, due in part to the fact that between them they knew 42 people affected by cancer.
