The Auckland Theatre Company season of A Fine Balance is at Q Theatre from June 14 –July 06. Tickets are available at QTheatre.co.nz Sit down with Amit Ohdedar, the Founder of Prayas and Historical & Cultural Advisor for the show, and Lynne Cardy, Associate Director of Auckland Theatre Company who were very instrumental in bringing together these two companies to talk about the collaboration.

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Script to Stage: A Fine Balance (Part 4)

The Auckland Theatre Company season of A Fine Balance is at Q Theatre from June 14 –July 06. Tickets are available at QTheatre.co.nz Join Assistant Director Sandra Chatterjee, Gayatri Adi, Maulik Thakkar & Alisha Iyer for a discussion about how the history of the emergency was rewritten.

Script to Stage: A Fine Balance (Part 3)

The Auckland Theatre Company season of A Fine Balance is at Q Theatre from June 14 –July 06. Tickets are available at QTheatre.co.nz A Fine Balance Assistant Director Sananda Chatterjee sits down with the creative team behind the Auckland Theatre Company and Prayas Theatre season to discuss how they are bringing the story and history to life on stage.

Script to Stage: A Fine Balance (Part 2)

The Auckland Theatre Company season of A Fine Balance is at Q Theatre from June 14 –July 06. Tickets are available at QTheatre.co.nz Join Prayas' Assistant Director Sandy Chatterjee & Founder and Historical Adviser Amit Ohdedar discuss the history of the emergency.

Script to Stage: A Fine Balance (Part 1)

From acclaimed feminist theatre makers Julia Croft, Virginia Frankovich and Nisha Madhan comes a new work of dissection and dissent on female bodies, female violence and female rage. Medusa opens October 24 and tickets are on sale now. This conversation features one of the three creator/performers, Julia Croft with host Saraid Cameron as they explore the complex origins of the show's namesake and interigate how to truly create feminist work in a theatre context.

Medusa: One of feminism’s great reclamations

Orientation is a new work from writer/director Chye-Ling Huang exploring sex and race in Aotearoa. It opens September 5 and tickets are on sale now. In this conversation, host Saraid Cameron and guest Chye-Ling Huang discuss the complex, frustrating and often hilariously stupefying situations throw up in present-day dating involving the intersections of race, skin colour, sex and identity in this modern minefield. More about Orientation: A hot mess of sexual stereotypes, no Asian man is left un-turned in Mei’s quest to root herself back to her roots. When a shock event leaves her questioning everything about love, Chinese-Pākehā Mei dives ferociously back into the dating game. A film star from Singapore, an Indian Taika Waititi and the Asian answer to Channing Tatum lift the sheets on how sex and race collide in little old New Zealand, where Asianess is both fetishised and feared. An ensemble of the sexiest storytellers from the Asian diaspora play out your wildest dreams and cringiest tropes as Mei uncovers that love is simple but race is not. NB: in this kōrero, Chye-Ling refers to Becky Kuek rehearsing the role of Mei, but this role is performed by Natasha Daniel during the season.

Orientation: Race, sex and stereotypes

Burn Her is a new political drama by Sam Brooks, one of New Zealand's most exciting young contemporary playwrights. The show opens on August 2 and tickets are on sale now.Saraid went to star Miriama McDowell's house to chat to her and playwright Sam Brooks about the subversive feminist elements of this show and why you should definitely go and bring your mum with you. More about Burn Her: It's election night and a fledgling new party, led by the charismatic and idealistic Aria, has captured an unlikely seat in the new parliament. As deals are made that pit the reality of government against the high rhetoric of the campaign, a crisis looms that could destroy the party’s future and Aria must decide what or who she is willing to sacrifice for her ambitions.

Burn Her: A contemporary political drama

Yorick! is a brand new musical about death opening on June 12. Tickets are on sale now.Saraid chats to creators Joel Baxendale and Rachel Baker of Binge Culture about the use of Hamlet as a trope for our demise, Scandinavian death cafes and how we shy away from death in modern Western culture. More about Yorick!: From the fear of the unknown, the vastness of outer space and those bad jokes you inevitably make at funerals, Yorick! sends our reality into hilarious, moonwalking disarray and leaves us with the only certainty - our end is on its way. With songs.

Yorick! A new musical about death

Q Theatre is Auckland’s home of independent performing arts. To bring you closer to the people making the amazing work we showcase year round, we are creating podcasts featuring conversations with some of the amazing artists in theatre, film, music, and more. Please subscribe to receive our first series of conversations hosted by Saraid Cameron. She’ll be talking with the incredible story tellers who will soon be starting fires in our MATCHBOX 2018 Season.

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Q Theatre is Auckland’s home of independent performing arts. To bring you closer to the people making the amazing work we showcase year round, we are creating podcasts featuring conversations with some of the incredible artists in theatre, film and music we love working with. Subscribe now to receive our first series of conversations hosted by Saraid Cameron. She’ll be talking with the incredible story tellers who will soon be starting fires in our MATCHBOX 2018 Season.

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