Eli Kent - The Voice a Generation

Eli Kent - The Voice a Generation

Auckland Theatre Company proudly presents BLACK CONFETTI, a new play from award-winning writer Eli Kent (The Intricate Art Of Actually Caring and Thinning) which opens Thursday 28 June, at 8pm, at the Herald Theatre.

We are all standing on the fault lines...

Siggy is a Generation Y casualty. He maxed out his student loan; uni is ejecting him; his uncle is behaving strangely; and his father, a famous seismologist, has disappeared off the face of the earth. But Siggy is clever. And is curious. Together with his best mate, Elvis, he is on a mission to get some adhesive in his life and find out the truth about his dad.

Packed full of big ideas and a squillion little surprises, poetry, mysteries and full on theatricality, BLACK CONFETTI is about the death of the party and surviving the earthquakes in our lives.

"Every so often a new playwright comes along who blows your socks off. Eli Kent has been proving his worth and winning awards with highly original, complex, funny and moving plays like THE INTRICATE ART OF ACTUALLY CARING and THINNING", says Colin McColl, ATC's artistic director.

Winner of the 2010 Bruce Mason Play Writing Award, Eli Kent's first full length play RUBBER TURKEY was featured in the 2008 NZ International Comedy Festival and Eli went on to win the Peter Harcourt Award for Outstanding New Playwright of the Year at the 2008 Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards as a result. 

THE INTRICATE ART OF ACTUALLY CARING, which has toured throughout New Zealand, won Best Theatre in the NZ Fringe Festival 2009, and three Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards, including Most Original Production. That year, Eli also wrote BEDLAM, a musical based on London's infamous insane asylum, which was performed as part of the Toi Whakaari Pitched Project. 

Auckland Theatre Company premiered THINNING as part of the 2010 Young and Hungry Festival. Eli has completed an MA in Script Writing at the prestigious International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University of Wellington and is a founding member of The Playground Collective, with whom he is currently writing THE TINDER BOX. 

We're all very excited about BLACK CONFETTI, the new work we've commissioned from Eli. Think HAMLET mixed with ALICE IN WONDERLAND and BREAKING BAD. It's streetwise, yet highly literate, very funny yet profoundly moving. Eli Kent is an extraordinary new voice in New Zealand playwriting.", says Colin.

Auckland Theatre Company commissioned BLACK CONFETTI, which featured in The Next Stage 2011 directed by Colin McColl. 

Tickets for BLACK CONFETTI can be purchased from 0800 BUT TICKETS (0800 289 842), or www.atc.co.nz .

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