Tag: Auckland Theatre Company
One of Australia’s greatest contemporary playwrights, Joanna Murray-Smith, talks about ATC’s latest production of her play Switzerland, based on the renowned queer author Patricia Highsmith (The Talented Mr Ripley). Joanna discusses the dark character and working with Dame Helen Mirren on the upcoming film adaptation.
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Benjamin Kilby-Henson, Co-Director of Auckland Theatre Company’s King Lear, ponders the question, ‘How does my queerness influence my work and artistic output?’
Well, fuck, I suppose the answer would be ‘wholeheartedly,’ as my queerness is so central to who I am, what I want to say, and how I see...
They say there is a role that every actor was born to play. When Auckland Theatre Company cast the role of Arie in Emily Perkins’ The Made, they found that actor in Hannah Tasker-Poland, a queer progressive-feminist fresh from producing her own first full-length work, The Most Naked. Hannah...
Chicano (Mexican-American) actor Esaú Mora stars in Auckland Theatre Company’s first production of 2022, Grand Horizons. He talks to express about the play’s LGBT theme’s, how theatre needs to evolve and the oppression of minority groups in NZ.
There are some interviews we do where immediately you know the...
Wellington-based Director Casandra Tse has been selected by Auckland Theatre Company to bring the ground breaking Australian play Single Asian Female to NZ’s stage for the first time. She discusses her lived experience as a NZ-Chinese bisexual woman and the importance of telling intersectional stories
Single Asian Female was Australia’s...
