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Suitcase Show - Wānaka Festival of Colour

Ticket Information

  • Adult: $48.00 each
  • Student: $25.00 each
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Dates

  • Mon 31 Mar 2025, 6:00pm
  • Tue 1 Apr 2025, 6:00pm
  • Tue 1 Apr 2025, 8:30pm

Restrictions

R12

Listed by

Elephant Publicity

Created by Ralph McCubbin Howell & Hannah Smith
Trick of the Light Theatre

A traveller arrives at a border with a stack of battered cases. From within them, whole worlds will emerge...

Suitcase Show is an eclectic box set of short stories. Dark, spiky, and comic, each one is told out of a suitcase. The staging is inventive, from lo-fi shadowplay to wireless projection, from dancing disembodied hands to narratives that crackle from a 70s stereo suitcase. Tiny in scale, but expansive in story, it touches on climate change, love and death, travel, and secrets that we carry with us –an overthrown autocrat finds themselves on the run from their own shadow, an astronaut turns their telescope back on earth and back in time. The work was developed through a series of showings in unusual site-specific spaces, from a pub to a photography darkroom.

Trick of the Light is renowned for crafting inventive shows and intricate narratives. Suitcase Show reunites multi-award-winning collaborators Hannah Smith, Ralph McCubbin Howell, Tane Upjohn-Beatson and Filament 11 Eleven.

Ingeniously and inventively told with humour, meticulous craft and a mischievous glint in the eye. Edinburgh Guide

‍Weaves a bright, dark magic. ★★★★ - The Scotsman UK

A masterful weaving of stories... Crafty as all hell. – Art Murmurs

Few words are capable of capturing the magic this innovative theatre company brings to the stage. – Regional News

‍Photo: Rebekah de Roo

Presented in partnership with PANNZ

On as part of the Wānaka Festival of Colour.

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