One Question Theatre

There's a great deal of exciting new work being staged at the The Meteor currently, Including Footnote New Zealand Dance's MODERN GOD; an original piece of dance theatre that has received rave-reviews from publications like Stuff. MODERN GOD has sold out a number of its performances already, so make sure to purchase tickets for this Saturday's show ASAP.

Company member Liam Hinton is currently working upon a production of Adam Rapp's The Sound Inside; read what he said about the play below.

Liam Hinton plays Christopher, the enigmatic writing student. Liam loves the play; do read a few of his thoughts:

“Adam Rapp’s The Sound Inside contains, as all great literary works do, a host of contradictions: it’s an enigmatic, narratively slippery piece but honest & matter of fact in its presentation. It is, in part, about the ways artists hide themselves, yet the work, & by extension its writer, hides behind nothing - it is unflinchingly human.

As a play intensely concerned with loneliness & mortality, it is dark & at times confronting, but there’s something in it, I can’t readily articulate, that I find strangely comforting.

The title speaks to something within, invisible yet audible, standing in opposition to silence & emptiness. It calls to mind this Leonard Cohen quote/lyric: “There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”

As someone with pretensions of being a writer, it is a cautionary tale, its conclusion (depending on one’s interpretation) can leave you with a chill. But I don’t think you need to write, or read, to connect with this work. I think you need to have felt desolate or experienced a moment of isolation you felt you couldn’t bridge, & no-one has dodged that bullet.

This play has been a privilege to have been exposed to & work upon.”

'When I dream of a mother and father, I dream of dreaming. I want to want, it is not the same as wanting. I know.'

ON TRAVELLING BACKWARDS TO PUNISH OURSELVES AS GHOSTS
📅8-10 August
🕰7:30pm
🎟$30 General Admission and $25 Concession
🔗Tickets: https://themeteor.co.nz/.../on-travelling-backwards-to.../
🚫Content warning: Strong language, discussion of death, themes of su***de and mental-illness

Another great review, this time from Cate Prestidge!

ON TRAVELLING BACKWARDS TO PUNISH OURSELVES AS GHOSTS
📅8-10 August
🕰7:30pm
🎟$30 General Admission and $25 Concession
🔗Tickets: https://themeteor.co.nz/.../on-travelling-backwards-to.../
🚫Content warning: Strong language, discussion of death, themes of su***de and mental-illness

New play from local writer cleverly explores memory and loss Show: On Travelling Backwards to Punish Ourselves as Ghosts Presented by: One Question Theatre Where: The Meteor Theatre When 8-10 August Tickets: On Travelling Backwards to Punish Ourselves as Gho…

Introducing cast-member Georgia Po***ck, who plays DAUGHTER.

Georgia is a prolific, multi-disciplinary performer with extraordinary commitment and talent; we've had the pleasure of working with her previously on The Longest Drink in Town and we're so enlivened to have her returned to us!

ON TRAVELLING BACKWARDS TO PUNISH OURSELVES AS GHOSTS
📅8-10 August
🕰7:30pm
🎟$30 General Admission and $25 Concession
🔗Tickets: https://themeteor.co.nz/.../on-travelling-backwards-to.../
🚫Content warning: Strong language, discussion of death, themes of su***de and mental-illness

'Terrible knowing you've forgotten something, and it's the same whether it's big or small.'

ON TRAVELLING BACKWARDS TO PUNISH OURSELVES AS GHOSTS
📅8-10 August
🕰7:30pm
🎟$30 General Admission and $25 Concession
🔗Tickets: https://themeteor.co.nz/.../on-travelling-backwards-to.../
🚫Content warning: Strong language, discussion of death, themes of su***de and mental-illness

'Some things die for other things when they die, insects, plants, why not people?'

ON TRAVELLING BACKWARDS TO PUNISH OURSELVES AS GHOSTS
📅8-10 August
🕰7:30pm
🎟$30 General Admission and $25 Concession
🔗Tickets: https://themeteor.co.nz/.../on-travelling-backwards-to.../
🚫Content warning: Strong language, discussion of death, themes of su***de and mental-illness

'I'd like a photo of my brother. What do you need from me for that to happen?'

ON TRAVELLING BACKWARDS TO PUNISH OURSELVES AS GHOSTS
📅8-10 August
🕰7:30pm
🎟$30 General Admission and $25 Concession
🔗Tickets: https://themeteor.co.nz/.../on-travelling-backwards-to.../
🚫Content warning: Strong language, discussion of death, themes of su***de and mental-illness