Go Solo 2007
Theatre Compositions Driven by Actors' Curiosity
This year Go Solo has twenty two new New Zealand compositions by third year actors from Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School.
As usual this year’s Solos are hugely varied, but overall they tend toward the macabre, surreal and outrageously funny. Snippets the students are jamming around include: What it is to be a ginger, a Samoan King with 30 pregnant wives, a Finnish Gypsy living with wolves, the dream life of a desert cactus, an accordion playing drunken dwarf and a famous Cambodian singer from before the reign of Pol Pot.
Go Solo 2007 is directed by Jade Eriksen (Migrant Nation, Yatra, Penumbra, Arcane) with support from second year entertainment technology student Paul Tozer, and Toi Whakaari design tutor Claudia Tolusso. There are six different groups of actors, and every group promises a rich collision of individual perspectives and bold theatre making.
This is the biggest group of actors the national drama school has ever graduated and there are some changes continuing to occur with the project – chief amongst them being a move away from the biography impetus of previous years to a more compositional focus of inquiry about how we as New Zealander’s express our identity through storytelling.
“It is such a privilege to witness these students becoming aware of their personal creative processes as they shape their own stories,” said Jade. “I am very interested in the work produced by the actor as instigator and composer. It has a potency fuelled largely by a focus on the audience’s experience.”
“I’m asking… How can we engage the audience? How can we make them integral to the meaning of the piece? How can they feel like it couldn’t happen without them and their prior experiences of the world? What have you always wanted to see or do on stage?”
| Where: | Drama One, Te Whaea National Dance & Drama Centre, 11 Hutchison Road |
| When: | 6.30pm & 8.30pm Monday 6 – Sunday 19 August; 2.30pm Wednesday - Sunday; 4.30pm Saturday & Sunday |
| Price: | $10 / $8 (see all six groups for $45 / $30) |
| Bookings: | 04 381 9251 |
Groupings
| Group A | Ahilan Karunaharan, Stephen Townshend, Evania Vallyon, Colleen Davis |
| Group B | Hollie Weir, Sarita So, Bryony Skillington, Asa Tofete |
| Group C | Natano Keni, Natasha Falconer, Shaneel Sidal |
| Group D: | Natalie Medlock, Anya Tate-Manning, Antonia Bale, Dan Musgrove |
| Group E | Ryan Richards, Sophie Roberts, Matt Whelan, Maria-Rose MacDonald |
| Group F | Sophie Hambleton, Byron Coll, Lee Smith-Gibbons |
For more information on the content of the Solos check this out.
Times
2.30pm |
4.30pm |
6.30pm |
8.30pm |
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| Mon 6 Aug | B |
A |
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| Tue 7 Aug | C |
D |
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| Wed 8 Aug | A |
E |
F |
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| Thu 9 Aug | B |
A |
B |
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| Fri 10 Aug | C |
D |
C |
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| Sat 11 Aug | D |
C |
E |
F |
| Sun 12 Aug | F |
E |
A |
B |
| Mon 13 Aug | C |
D |
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| Tue 14 Aug | F |
E |
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| Wed 15 Aug | D |
A |
B |
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| Thu 16 Aug | E |
D |
C |
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| Fri 17 Aug | F |
B |
F |
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| Sat 18 Aug | A |
B |
F |
E |
| Sun 19 Aug | C |
A |
E |
D |
