The Basement Tapes, New Zealand Fringe Festival
The Basement Tapes, New Zealand Fringe Festival
The Basement
Tapes
Theatre
NZ Fringe Festival
Wellington
10-14 February 2017
The most visual medium for me is radio.
There's nothing more visual than sitting in the car
while the radio is playing
– Robert Lepage.
Cleaning out her dead grandmother’s basement, a girl finds recordings her grandmother made. While listening to the tapes she begins to question who her grandmother really was. But can the grandmother on the tapes be trusted as a reliable narrator? Not to mention the girl herself…
Both the audience and the solo performer fight to stay afloat among the waves of secrets and memories in grandma’s basement.
The Basement Tapes (NZ Fringe Festival, Wellington, 10-14 February 2017) explores how the things we leave behind outlive us. Part audio work, part live performance, the production brings the past into the present through mixed media.
The Basement Tapes sets itself in the nation’s capital and proudly celebrates the Wellington character. While adding to the increasing amount of sophisticated mixed-media work, Tapes also proudly boasts a 50% female identifying production team.
The Basement Tapes
NZ FRINGE 2017
Friday 10 – Tuesday 14
February
7:00pm - 7:50pm
Chaffers Apartments
1
Clyde Quay Wharf, Herd Street, Te Aro, Wellington
Concession/Student $15
Fringe Addict $15
Full $20
CAST
Granddaughter: Stella Reid
CREATIVES
Director: Jane Yonge
Creative Producer: Stella Reid
Sound Designer: Thomas Lambert
Spatial Designer: Oliver Morse
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