Going DEEP with Auckland Fringe

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Hold your breath; we’re going Deep. SICKO Productions & Proudly Asian Theatre presents the pitch black of the Deep, where anything is possible.

When marine archaeologist Rebekah Poleman volunteers for a routine expedition in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, her thirst for isolation invites a nightmare scenario: untethered from her submarine, stranded four-thousand feet deep in the pitch-black Midnight Zone with only terrifying species of marine life for company.

Oh, and she’s got less than an hour’s oxygen left.

From a friendly blobfish, terrifying kraken and orgasm-inducing clouds of bioluminescence, deep sea creatures take our hero on a darkly humorous journey that explores the difficulty to ignore your negative inner voice and be kind to yourself.

“We thought, optimistically, it would take decades to find anything with our probes, but it seems a trio of sassy Angler fish may have led me directly to… I don’t quite know what it is.”

Starring Natasha Daniel (Pop Up Globe, Orientation), Cole Jenkins (Life Is Easy, The Last Man on Earth is Trapped in a Supermarket), Elle Wotton (The Road That Wasn’t There, Maggot), Edwin Beats (The Thirteen Storey Treehouse, Room on the Broom) and Jen Huang (Jacinda, The Wilds) who bring to life spectacular luminous puppets made from recycled and used materials.

Presented by Sicko Productions and Proudly Asian Theatre and penned by visionary filmmaker Hayden J. Weal (Chronosthesia, DEAD), Ryan Dulieu (Room on the Broom, The Thirteen Storey Treehouse) directs a host of Auckland’s finest creeps in a surprising, empowering and adult-only undersea adventure.

Puppets designed by PAT’s Chye-Ling Huang (Life Is Easy, Orientation) and Paul Lewis (Custard’s World, A Find Balance).

DEEP
Feb 25 – Feb 29
Presented by SICKO Productions & Proudly Asian Theatre
With Auckland FRINGE
Running time: 60mins
Tickets: $20 – $24
Vault at Q Theatre | 305 Queen Street, Auckland CBD

Filling the absence of regular puppetry productions, Auckland Fringe is the perfect environment for Deep to bring a fantastical, dark and transportational puppetry performance back to Auckland’s theatre scene with boundary-pushing elements that convey a timely and urgent conversation for people coping with ever-changing social revolutions.

“Live puppetry is a rarity across the cultural landscape of this city, and combined with cinematic soundscapes and a moving performance deep in the Pacific Ocean… It is something you simply cannot get elsewhere.”
– Chye-Ling Huang

 

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