What’s on in Wellington this week

Close-Up: An Evening with Jane Campion

Marsden Auditorium, Samuel Marsden Collegiate School, Marsden Avenue, Karori, Nov 1, 6pm, $35-$65 Hear renowned director, producer and screenwriter Dame Jane Campion discuss her love of books, her international success and what inspires her at a special fundraising event for Katherine Mansfield House & Garden.

Tickets: katherinemansfield.com

Fab Beasts

BATS Theatre, Nov 1-5, 6.30pm,

$20-$25.

Relaxed matineé performance Nov 5, 2pm Come with us from the big city offices, to the far side of Loch Ness, to discover where the Fab Beasts went. Featuring unicorns, plesiosaurs, and mystery. Tickets: bats.co.nz

Verb Readers & Writers Festival Various venues, Nov 2-6, $0-$55 Celebrate books, writers, stories and ideas with some of Aotearoa and the world’s great writers coming together over the theme of ‘Radical Possibility’. The festival includes the ninth annual LitCrawl on November 5 – the country’s biggest one-night literary celebration. Tickets: verbwellington.nz

The Woman in Black

Gryphon Theatre, Nov 2-12, 7.30 pm; Nov 6, 3pm;

Nov 8-9, 6.30pm,

$20-$25

The haunting begins after All Souls Day at the Gryphon Theatre, where The Woman in Black will make its ghostly, ghastly appearance to thrill and chill all souls who dare to behold this grim and terrifying tale.

Tickets: iticket.co.nz

Michaela Cadwgan and Bruce Greenfield

St Andrew’s on The Terrace, Nov 2, 12.15 pm, koha

The pair in a recital of song cycles and French art songs: French mélodie by composers Duparc and Poulenc, Ravel’s Shéhérazade (1903), and selections from Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder, WWV91. Making Space: A history of NZ women in architecture National Library auditorium, Aitken St access, Nov 2, 12.10pm-1pm, free or virtually

Hear stories about women making space for themselves in a maledominated profession, including many whose careers had until now almost entirely been lost to the historical record.

Register at natlib.govt.nz

Owls Do Cry

Circa Theatre, Nov 3-13, various times, $25-$54

Janet Frame’s Owls Do Cry follows the story of the Withers siblings, Daphne, Chicks, Toby and Francie, and their lives in small town New Zealand following a family tragedy. Tickets: nz.patronbase.com