After Eden Collective Presents: Together All Alone

Angie Farrow's 6 brand spanking new plays is coming to Wellington

After Eden Collective Presents:
Together All Alone

Six Short Plays by Angie Farrow
Directed by Jaime Dorner and Rachel Lenart

The After Eden Collective are back at BATS following a sellout season in 2013. These six new plays by internationally acclaimed and award winning playwright Angie Farrow, have at their heart a probing examination of the isolation, expectation and experience of ‘the city’. Brides, Mothers, librarians, lovers and gamers consider what is real, what is possible and what actually happened in this dynamic collection of new, New Zealand work. "Brilliantly clever, witty and sharp — these works contain a multitude of real and surreal characters and worlds, and they take you on theatrical journeys way beyond the length of the plays." — Stuart Hoar, Playmarket.

Together All Alone is an explosive collaboration between award winning ‘utterly driven’ director Jaime Dorner (A Midsummer Nights Dream) and Chapman Tripp Director of the Year nominee, Rachel Lenart (Constellations) ‘One of Wellington’s most adventurous directors’. Together, they weave this examination of urbanity and humanity into a series of crystalline moments and snapshots, that at times is cinematic, choreographic and chaotic using an evocative set and lighting design by Natala Gwiazdzinski. “…the two directors have stitched this programme together seamlessly. They and their actors ensure that this quirky, compressed and riveting pieces offer an experience that is richly layered, highly nuanced and thoroughly rewarding." Richard Mays, Tribune.

To perform, Chapman Tripp award winning actor Rob Lloyd (The Prophet) is joined, by Jess Hong (As You Like it)and Sam Daly (King Lear), in their debut on the Wellington stage, and the award-winning Hannah Pratt, returning for the first time since The Bowler Hat at BATS in 2007.

After Eden’s Dancing Till We Drop captivated audiences in 2013 with its ‘quality of experiential insight and existential truth’ (John Smythe, Theatreview) and Together All Alone marks the next step in this company’s evolution.

This production has already begun to garner awards: at the 2015 Globe Theatre Awards in the Manawatu it received prizes for Outstanding New New Zealand Works in Theatrical Production and Best Female Actor. The team are delighted to bring this production to BATS Theatre this April, and share the experience with Wellington audiences.

Together All Alone,
7-18 April 2015, 7.30pm (No Shows Sunday/ Monday)
BATS Theatre, 1 Kent Terrace
Book at www.bats.co.nz or 04-802 4175.

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