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Director & Playwright's Note

Before We Slip Beneath the Sea is the culmination of many years' worth of artistic obsessions of mine. I've always been excited by the storytelling possibilities of Immersive theatre; the ways that the audience's relationship to the narrative completely changes when they are asked to navigate their own way through it. I've seen a lot of Immersive theatre that I've loved and a lot that has frustrated me, and Before We Slip is a response to all of those works. I didn't originally set out to make a 'climate change play' – I wanted to tell the story of a community, and the story of Eglantyne pieced itself together from there.

 

I have great affection for all seven of the Eggies, and have loved working with this very talented cast as they have made the characters their own. Thank you to Abby for her artistic and logistic support throughout the process, and Lucas for his design work. This play was developed with the keen guidance of my PhD supervisors, Nicola Hyland and Ken Duncum – thank you to Ken in particular for sitting down with me and talking through each of my characters like they were mutual friends of ours. And of course, thank you to Jamie, my forever first reader. 

CAST

Bree – Charlie Potter

Carla – Hannah McKenzie Doornebosch

Clive – Ralph Johnson

Eden – Megan Connolly

Kip – Billie Deganutti

Maggie – Helen Jones

Marty – Craig Geenty

CREW

Director & Playwright – Cassandra Tse

Assistant Director & Stage Manager – Abby Lyons

Production Design – Lucas Neal

Marketing & Publicity – Jamie Cain

Intimacy Direction – Aimée Sullivan

Fight Choreography – Nina Hogg

Photography – Joshua Hopton-Stewart, Roc Torio, Alex Rabina

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What did you think?

We are conducting an online survey of audience members who participated in this event. Your response will help our playwright, Cassandra Tse, in her PhD dissertation on narrative immersion in Immersive theatre.

Please click here to fill out this survey, which will take approximately 15 - 20 minutes. Survey participants can enter into a draw to win a $50 supermarket voucher.

This research has been approved by the Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington Human Ethics Committee 0000031466.

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