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Haste Away Home: Wellington Fringe Festival
Haste Away Home (A Blacklight Fairy Tale)
a part of the Wellington Fringe Festival
The company that brought you Raiders of the Lost Harlot and A Study in Pink, GDP Productions is proud to enter the New Zealand Fringe Festival this March with Haste Away Home, a Saturday night cartoon inspired retelling of several of our favorite Grimm’s Fairy Tales. Black light theater (performed in pitch black under ultraviolet lights) bridges the gap between puppetry, illusion, and animation, and is famous for being an accessible and unique form of storytelling. Haste Away Home is a dark show for all ages directed by James Kiesel, with live music by Ty Butterfield and Scott Roy, local celebutante Jon Lemmon spinning discs, puppets constructed by local puppet maker Felix Millar (son of renowned Australian puppet creator Philip Millar), and featuring an international cast including Philadelphia-based actress Jess Brownell and local vaudevillain Eli Joseph.
| This show and this medium,
more than any other I’ve been a part of, is capable of
inspiring wonder, like a magic trick you can’t get out of
your head, weeks after you’ve seen it. ~ James Kiesel | Making black light theater is really
empowering because you have complete control over exactly
what the audience sees or doesn’t see, and so watching it
live is like watching a movie happening before you, in real
life. ~ Felix Millar |
WHERE: Concerned Citizen’s Collective
19 Tory Street, Wellington
WHEN: March 11th - 13th, 8pm
Doors will open at 7:30; approximately 50 minute run time.
PRICE: $15, or $10 unwaged
tickets available at the door, the Fringe box office, or online.
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