An Iliad 7th - 21st April 2018 Click here for bookings: |
Fortune Theatre is very excited to have secured two of New Zealand’s biggest and most enduring performing arts names for its second show of 2018.
Dunedin’s own Shayne P Carter and New Zealand icon Michael Hurst will bring An Iliad, written by Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare, to life on the Fortune’s stage.
An Iliad is part gig and part play, with Mr Carter composing the score, in between writing a memoir from his home in Aramoana, and Mr Hurst lending his renowned Shakespearean heft as the man at the bar, telling the story of his life.
The performance will include periods of improvisation where the two cast members will riff off each other’s mood and presence on stage, creating a different performance each night.
Mr Hendry says, “We’re bringing some fresh thinking to our 2018 season, which includes offering our audiences new ways of experiencing theatre. An Iliad will be a production like none the Fortune has produced before.”
This also includes gauging some of the reasons people don’t attend theatre, which include financial as well as physical accessibility and of course content. Mr Hendry says he was gratified with the response to the public preview for current show Jeeves & Wooster in Perfect Nonsense and so this will be available for all shows now.
“People said they came for two reasons – because they got to see the show before it opened, a sneak peek if you like, but also because of the $20 tickets. It removed the financial barrier for them and making theatre accessible to our community is one of our key areas of focus this year. It’s great to see this experiment worked so well.”
An Iliad opens at the Fortune Theatre on Saturday 7th April, and runs until Saturday 21st. The public preview for An Iliad will be at 7.30pm on Friday 6th April
