The Mountain

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Left: Sara Allen Right: Esther Green. Photo by Kate Baker

'The Mountain' – Media Release

Katipo Café 76 Willis Street

7.30pm 12-18 February

bookings phone Ph. 04 801 6946 or bookings phone Ph. 04 801 6946 or www.downstage.co.nz

The Mountain is a theatre show that takes you up into the wilderness and snow of New Zealand's tallest mountain It is performed by fresh new theatre company All The Way Home.

Coming to you as a part of the ever-popular Wellington Fringe Festival, The Mountain is an adventure story set on Aoraki Mount Cook, challenge and inspiration to many climbers and trampers.

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Left : Esther Green. Right: Sara Allen. Photo by Kate Baker

The show is devised by recent Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School graduates Esther Green, Sara Allen and Julia Croft. Together with designer Rose Kirkup, they have drawn inspiration from the poets Dante and Milton — and the writings and lives of iconic New Zealand mountaineers such as John Pascoe, Sir Edmund Hilary and Freda Du Faur — to create a high altitude fairytale-comedy.

Virgil told Dante of how the devil, when cast out of heaven, fell through to the center of the earth. His impact caused Mount Purgatory to erupt into existence on an island in the southern hemisphere.

What if that island was New Zealand? And Mount Purgatory was our own Aoraki (The Cloud Piercer) Mount Cook?

The story is told through the eyes of two women, Marjory (Maggie) and Beverly (B), who have grown up living and working in a cabin on Mt Cook hiring out gear. They introduce us to a variety of characters as they try to complete an important quest through Purgatory.

In keeping with their aim to promote entertaining theatre off the beaten track, All The Way Home theatre company presents The Mountain at Katipo Café, 76 Willis Street (up two flights of stairs — crampons optional).

The Mountain is on at 7:30 every night at Katipo Café from the 12th – 18th of February. Tickets are: $16 - Full, $12 – Concession, $10 – Fringe Addicts. They can be booked through Downstage Theatre, corner of Courtney Place and Cambridge Terrace, Ph. 04 801 6946, door sales on the night or online at www.downstage.co.nz

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Left: Esther Green. Right: Sara Allen. Photo by Kate Baker

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