What Happened To Mary-Anne?

"What Happened to Mary-Anne?" is the story of trans woman Mary-Anne and her insatiable adoration for the power of rock. It is electric! It is dramatic! It is loud and sometimes obnoxious! It is dirty and vulgar and everything you want at a rock and roll concert AND MORE!!! Featuring the musical stylings from rock and roll legends throughout history such as Stevie Nicks and Kiss! Audiences will be welcomed to come and fulfil their rock star fantasy as they get caught in Mary-Anne's web.

Mary-Anne has a lot on her plate. She is the youngest of 8 adult siblings, a night nurse, caretaker of her bid ridden father and a god fearing trans woman. Her ultra conservative siblings tolerate her because she runs around for the family, babysits the children, tends to her father’s every need and never complains. However, the family are in for a surprise when they find out that Mary-Anne rocks out to Led Zeppelin at night, belting secular music while her ailing father sleeps. They’ll be even more stunned when they find out she sings at the Pig Bucket every night. But they’ll never forgive her when they find out she’s been dragging their father to a dirty dive bar at night to do so… Watch as Mary-Anne slowly unravels her truth about how she lost herself only to find herself once again.

Show Credits: 

Directed by Benjamin Kilby-Henson
Produced by Brady Peeti and Te Huamanuka Luiten-Apirana
Musical Directed by Bray Jeffrey
Production and Stage Managed by. Teiaro Taikato
Lighting Design by Bekky Boyce
Audio Engineered by Paige Pomana

The Grotesque: Māia Huia, Bray Jeffrey and Rhohil Kishore

Artist Bio:

Brady Peeti (Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi, Ngāti Maniapoto), a pioneering, award-winning actress. She has shattered stereotypes as the first trans actress to take a leading role in the hit musical; Jekyll & Hyde. Graduating from the National Academy of Singing and Dramatic Art, Brady's remarkable talent shines on both stage and screen. Her theatre credits include unforgettable performances in Fever: Return of the Ula, Black Ties, Astroman, The Wizard of Otāhuhu, and Larger Than Life. Notably, she wowed audiences as Lucy Harris in the musical Jekyll & Hyde, and most recently the wonderful show Kōpū at Te Pou, which was a celebration of wāhinetanga, a hugely successful show, Kōpū pays tribute to the wāhine whose voices should matter the most on the marae; our nannies, mothers, and aunties.

Brady's versatility is evident in her portrayal of the man-eating plant Audrey II in Little Shop of Horrors at Christchurch's Court Theatre, a role usually assigned to a puppeteer.

Beyond the stage, Brady has left her mark on television with appearances in the Māori bilingual web series Ahikāroa, her incredible role in Mika's, GURL and most notably the emotional and necessary conversations of TransGenerations.