It's a 'Disaster' waiting to happen – and that's a good thing for all involved. Find out how the NZ debut of an immersive theatre game is opening doors for local shows to find new life overseas.
Touring performing arts. Photo: Joseph Phillips, Pexels.
The tyranny of distance, the roadblock of language barriers, the moral conundrum of carbon footprints. Each issue can be enough to snuff out a creative ambition before it even gets a chance to take flight – but one Wellington theatre company has found a way to overcome all three of them at once, thanks to a new partnership that is innovative, with the potential to be transformative.
Binge Culture – a much-loved and established creative collective helmed by Artistic Director Joel Baxendale that’s coming off a sold-out season of comedy-thriller Werewolf at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe – is set to reveal the first step in what it hopes is a long and fruitful path in a new performance exchange.
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