Suitcase Show
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Suitcase Show

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

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Thursday, October 3 · 7 - 8pm NZDT

Location

Tapere Iti, Te Auaha

65 Dixon Street Te Aro Wellington, Wellington 6011 New Zealand

Refund Policy

Refunds up to 2 days before event

About this event

From the makers of The Bookbinder comes 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.


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, Rachel Marlow and Bradley Gledhill (Filament 11 Eleven).


“A masterful weaving of stories… Crafty as all hell.”
Art Murmurs

“Weaves a bright, dark magic.” ★★★★ The Scotsman


Director Hannah Smith

Writer Ralph McCubbin Howell

Performers Ralph McCubbin Howell Hannah Smith

with Anya Tate-Manning Richard Falkner

Sound Design and Composition Tane Upjohn Beatson

with additional composition by Robyn Bryant


Production and Technical Design Brad Gledhill & Rachel Marlow (Filament Eleven 11)


Videography Dean Hewison


Trick of the Light is an award-winning theatre company from Aotearoa / New Zealand founded by Hannah Smith & Ralph McCubbin Howell. Their works include The Road That Wasn’t There (Outstanding New NZ Play, Most Promising Director and Production of the Year – Wellington Theatre Awards 2013), The Bookbinder (Best of the Fringe – NZ Fringe 2014, International Excellence Award –Sydney Fringe Festival 2014), and Tröll (Outstanding Theatre Award – Fringe Review, Edinburgh, 2019, Children’s and West Arts Editor Weekly Award – Fringe World, Perth, 2019).

  • Photo: Rebekah de Roo

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Te Auaha

Te Auaha houses the arts programmes of Whitireia and WelTec and hosts community, industry and international events in world-class facilities here in the heart of Wellington's creative quarter.

BOX OFFICE POLICY - Please arrive at the venue at least 20 minutes before the show starts, so that we can check you in at the box office. Tickets that have been booked but not paid for and collected may, at such time as the Box Office Manager deems appropriate, be offered to waiting patrons. We generally do not hold the show for latecomers.

REFUND POLICY- All requests will be considered on a case-by-case basis. If you need to request a refund, please get in touch with us as soon as possible. Just hit the 'contact' button under our logo and we'll take it from there.

Te Auaha does not typically approve refund requests made less than one full working day ahead of the event's scheduled start time. One working day provides a fair window of time for the refunded ticket to be taken by another paying patron.

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