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AOTEAROA NZ | Trick Of The Light
A traveller arrives at a border with a stack of battered cases. From within them, whole worlds will emerge…
Suitcase Show is an eclectic box set of short stories from Trick Of The Light Theatre (The Devil's Half-Acre, The Bookbinder). Dark, spiky, and comic, each one is told out of a suitcase. The staging is inventive, from lo-fi shadowplay to wireless projection, from dancing disembodied hands to narratives that crackle from a 70s stereo suitcase.
Tiny in scale, but expansive in story, it touches on climate change, love and death, travel, and secrets that we carry with us – an overthrown autocrat finds themselves on the run from their own shadow, an astronaut turns their telescope back on earth and back in time.
Suitcase Show reunites multi-award-winning collaborators Hannah Smith, Ralph McCubbin Howell, Tane Upjohn-Beatson, Rachel Marlow and Bradley Gledhill (Filament 11 Eleven).
This presentation is made possible by the support of PANNZ.
Recommended for ages 12+ Contains haze, flashing lights, and theatrical references to death and violence.
Wheelchair access is through the main entrance. When one door is open, the entrance is 730mm and when both are open, the entrance is 1460mm. One door has a lever handle and can be opened by a person in a wheelchair but the second door is snibbed.
There are 20 steps between the front door and the theatre entrance, which are regular in height and depth. There is a stair lift, which is rated for a maximum weight of 185kg and must be operated by venue staff.
There is a wheelchair-accessible gender-neutral bathroom The door is sliding with a lever handle and the doorway is 780mm. The dimensions of the bathroom are 1900mm by 1600mm.
