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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