The future is NOW at Explosives Factory this week, as Helene Tardif brings her exposing contemporary performance to our stage after an acclaimed season last year. Have a look at the gallery of shots from the 2025 season. Covid, lockdown, birthdays. The one decides to create a virtual reality to evade this dying world. His way to fight pollution, discord, inequality. The older generation is not ready, they want the past to come back. They fight against it, against each other
In today's Backstage Blog, we sat down with Rosie Roulette, the writer, director and producer of POKÉLESQUE , the drag / burlesque extravaganza opening at Theatre Works for a limited 5-show run next week. Q: It’s a play. It’s a Burlesque show. It’s Drag. It’s POKÉLESQUE! Where did the idea come from? My background is in musical theatre and classical voice. Whilst I have performed professionally throughout New Zealand and Australia as an actor/singer/dancer I fell deeply in lo
Check out these shots from inside the rehearsal room of I THOUGHT YOU SAID , the exciting debut work of Tip Toe Theatre opening at Explosives Factory next week. The stars are falling but what the hell are they supposed to do about it? It’s like every other nightshift for Sam and Frankie. They clock in, stock up the chips, steal some for themselves, bet on whether they’ll get one (or even two!) customers, and ignore the dying star outside. Everyone’s gotten used to it by now,
