Basement Theatre Salon Performance Series Week 3
Auckland Fringe Festival
Basement Theatre presents its final week of stirring performance by an array of makers working in experimental
Theatre/Dance/In-between/Performance Art
Over five nights these exciting artists will share one space. Alice Canton, Billie Staples, Jasmine Donald, Johanna Cosgrove, Thomas Press & Virginia Frankovich, Tallulah Holly-Massey & Kate Bartlett.
This line-up of performers have had many critically positive things said about their respective works…..
“The piece is like a festival film about a teenager’s coming of age and I don’t want it to end”
“ ..establishes a boldly experimental vibe …” “… a strong, eloquent, dexterous performer…”
“There is nothing in this piece that does not echo with conviction” “Majestically outstanding”
Billie Staple’s PIG is about consent, consent, consent, evoking your anger, igniting your hope and leaving you smiling in the dark at the darkest parts of our humanity. In I AM WHO, Jasmine Donald performs a playful look into her mind, questioning through dance and video the conversations that go on between the mind and the body.
Johanna Cosgrove brings in her real actual aunt to sit on a deck chair and order you around in AUNTY, exploring differences in mentalities across generations. In WHAT’S WRONG WITH THE LIGHT? Kate Bartlett and Tallulah Holly-Massey explore escapism and space-negotiation by moving, talking, and placing their way across a room to reach fresh air.
NO/I/SE(LF) is an exploration of sound in space (with or without bodies) created by Thomas Press and Virginia Frankovich. And LITTLE SISTER, Alice Canton’s contemporary reimagining of the ballet Petrouchka, continues to develop over the entire Salon season.
There is no mutual provocation and zero parameters beyond the parameter of the room, anything and nothing could happen in Basement’s studio space.
Presented in the style of a performance salon, these works will take place at different points within the four hour programme – wedged nicely between installations, and the comfort of a room with seats and a bar. You can move about the space, leave, re-enter, leave again, re-enter and then leave at your leisure.
7 – 11 March, 6pm – 10pm, Basement Theatre Studio, Lower Greys Avenue, $5 Pay on entry or $25 Pre-reserve
Book at https://www.iticket.co.nz https://www.aucklandfringe.co.nz/
