Saturday Morning With Jack Tame

One of the most legendary couples on the New Zealand theatre scene, Jennifer Ward-Lealand and Michael Hurst have acting resumes that range from pimps, to politicians, to animated versions of Buzzy Bee.   They’ve been in countless productions together, but it had never been just the two of them on stage until their most recent stage work - In Other Words.   In the show, the two play a married couple dealing with the onset of Alzheimer's, and it had a sold out run in Auckland last year.   This year, Ward-Lealand and Hurst are taking the show across the nation, which Ward-Lealand told Jack Tame they’re thrilled to be doing.  “It would be rare to find a New Zealander who hasn’t had some connection in some way to some, either member of their Whanau or friends, or friends of friends who’ve experienced dementia,” she said.  Despite the serious topic, Hurst says the play isn’t particularly heavy.  “It certainly confronts it, but it’s levity and uplifting and the human condition, and cari