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Big Aspirations: Actor Bree Peters
says her dad, Winston, is "happy that I'm working." Photo Phil Doyle/Sunday Star Times Winston Peters' actor daughter
Bree wants to take on the world, but she is starting with The 24-year-old is acting in
Auckland Theatre Company's production of The Crucible which opens on July 5 -
her first professional job since graduating from national drama school Toi
Whakaari. At present her ambitions are
modest. "I just want to be able to
work consistently and not have to go back to being a nanny," she says. But eventually she hopes to work
in film, television and theatre overseas. "I have big aspirations, but
I'd rather not put it in the paper, I'd rather just say `I've done it'."
She has wanted to be an actor
since she was four years old. "I told mum I wanted to be an
actor and marry Tom Selleck. I trusted men with moustaches when I was
four." In Tauranga, where she grew up,
she borrowed films from a video shop every day and acted in school
productions at After several years travelling,
she spent three years at During the final year, she lived
on and off with her New Zealand First leader father Winston - who split from
her mum, Louise, in 1995. Bree says her father "has a
lot of wisdom to impart" - but not about acting. "He's happy that I'm working
but I've never really asked (for advice) because it's always been, `this is
my thing, you have your thing and it seems to be working OK, and here's my
thing over here'. "In the end he's glad it's a
degree." He will be invited to see her play
Mercy Lewis, the "fat, sly and merciless" one in a group of five
hysterical teenagers who accuse other women of being witches. Arthur Miller's 1952 play of The
Crucible is based on the 1692 witch trials of "The Peter Ellis Christchurch
creche thing is a perfect example of a community gone mad with a witch
hunt." McColl says Peters was "stroppy"
at auditions. "I thought, she's probably an
independent soul with a good spirit." The Crucible is at |
