Pegasus Post: January 02, 2018

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Tuesday January 2 2018
News
Funding to buy CCTV
cameras reached
•From page 1
A man was charged with three
of the four aggravated burglary
offences, including that of Miss
van Ras. He has been remanded
in custody and will next appear in
court on February 21.
Johnston Architects owner
Regan Johnston said the business
has recently moved to Sumner
from the central city so the
company wanted to get involved
in an important community
initiative.
“It’s important to the community.
We thought, we’re new – let’s
do our part,” he said.
Ms Preston said any leftover
money would go straight back to
the community via the Sumner
Residents’ Association.
Ms Preston said residents have
been concerned for a number of
years that property-related crime
was on the rise. However, she said
it was the burglary of Miss van Ras
that sparked the group into action.
“The idea is that if something
does happen we’ve got footage
to help track down whoever was
involved,” she said.
But she said the cameras would
also act as a good deterrent to
crime.
Any footage captured would
only be viewed by police, who
support the initiative, and
security staff.
Shakespearean stage beckons
Actress off
to London’s
Globe Theatre
• By Julia Evans
“ROMEO, ROMEO, wherefore
art thou Romeo?”
Tigerlily Perry may soon
be reciting the famous
Shakespearean quote at the
theatre his plays were first
performed in four centuries ago.
Although Romeo and Juliet isn’t
her favourite play.
“It’s a tie between Much Ado
About Nothing and Julius Caesar,”
she said.
The 17-year-old who has just
finished school at St Margaret’s
College is hoping to send her
acting career into overdrive
after landing a coveted spot in
the New Zealand Young Shakespeare
Company.
From more than 5000 applicants,
Tigerlily was selected
as one of the 24 students who
will fly to London to perform
at the Globe Theatre. Only one
other student from Christchurch
made the cut, Cashmere’s Ben
Kelly.
Tigerlily and Ben will
perform and take part in several
CURTAINS: Tigerlily Perry is set to head to London and
perform Shakespeare at the Globe Theatre and in
Stratford-upon-Avon. ​
workshops and talks at the
Globe before heading north
to Shakespeare’s birthplace,
Stratford-upon-Avon.
“It’s really exciting thinking
about performing there.”
Tigerlily said she expects it
will be “life-changing.”
Although the trip isn’t until
July, Tigerlily is already hard at
work fundraising for the $8500
it will take to get her there.
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“I’ve been doing odd jobs,”
she said. But a funding grant
of $1000 from the Shakespeare
Globe Centre New Zealand has
been “amazing,” she said.
It comes after her recent role
as the lead in the international
award-winning film, A Perfect
Child, made by Christ’s College
and St Margaret’s students.
“I’ve always been into acting.
It started with the Shakespeare
festival at school,” she said.
Her mother was an actress,
although never professionally.
“Mum was an actress, she
exposed me to that world and
it developed when I was a kid,”
she said.
Tigerlily grew up with a
love of reading play scripts –
something she always thought
was “a bit weird.”
She has played Paulina and
Hermione in The Winter’s Tale,
Mark Antony in Anthony and
Cleopatra, Trebonius from Julius
Caesar and has taken the lead in
Timon of Athens, Timon.
But she couldn’t pick a
favourite. Instead, she’s hoping
to add new characters to her
repertoire at the Globe in July.
•If you want to help
Tigerlily with the fundraising
campaign, go to https://
givealittle.co.nz/cause/
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