Devised promenade theatre
Watch Party
If you didn’t post it, did it even happen? This site-specific promenade work explores how our online identities have become embedded in our reality.
We were commissioned to direct a show with a group of 16 young performers as part of Auckland Theatre Company's Here & Now festival. Joel Baxendale, Oliver Devlin and Karin McCracken travelled up to work with the cast for three weekends followed by a two week intensive rehearsal period.The result was Watch Party – a kaleidoscopic foray into the world of social media and online communication. Featuring 16 performers activating the public spaces of the ASB Waterfront Theatre, the promenade performance took place across the entire public space of the building.
An Auckland Theatre Company Production
Devised by Binge Culture and the cast
Directed by Joel Baxendale, Karin McCracken and Oliver Devlin
Cast: Emily Hurley, Nathanael Tan, Ophelia Wass, Michael Brown, Georgia Hoskins-Smith, Annie Duynhoven, Lucas Haugh, Adeline Esther, Jodi Fordyce, Augustine Dube, Catherine Yates, Natasha Verney, Alex Schofield, Gabrielle Dally, Tasman Clark, Chloe Bagayas
Stage Managers/Operators: Tate Fountain, Riley Blucher
Production Assistant: Else Strohmeier
26-30 April 2019, ASB Waterfront Theatre, Auckland Here and Now Festival 2019
"critically powerful, passionately social ... comedy gold". Theatrescenes
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