A searing indictment of celebrity culture, this NZ premiere is British drama at its finest. STARRING Cherie Moore, Jonathan James, Jessie Lawrence, Jacob Dale, Mel Odedra, Fiona Armstrong, Michael Hurst.
"I've started losing all sense of who I am. I check into hotel rooms and I can't remember my name. I stand there at reception. It feels like hours. Other people remember. They tell me. They know who I am."
After 15 months on the road, playing to thousands of adoring fans; drinking, snorting, and f**king everything in sight, coming home doesn't sound as appealing as it once did.
A searing indictment of celebrity culture, this NZ premiere is British drama at its finest.
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"It's the most hectoring play I've written, in a lot of ways. It's a play about what happens to the human being when we're defined by what we spend." Simon Stephens, The Quietus
"It is universally acknowledged that absolute power has the ability to corrupt absolutely, but in Simon Stephens’ new play Birdland, its absolute fame, seemingly limitless cash, and a life lived so disconnected from reality that turns rock star Paul into an amoral monster." -GlasgowTheatreBlog
“Dickson’s direction is as delicate and precise as a surgeon’s blade, mining the text for and capturing every inch of the devastating consequences and catharsis of hedonism, self-destruction, and love.” – Up Your Arts
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Written by Simon Stephens Directed by Jordan Dickson Produced by Jonathan James & Fiona Armstrong (GOYA Productions) Designed by George Wallace & Jordan Dickson Starring Cherie Moore, Jonathan James, Jessie Lawrence, Jacob Dale, Mel Odedra, Fiona Armstrong, Michael Hurst
Intimacy Direction Jennifer Te Atamira Ward-Lealand
Living life at high voltage – Jo Randerson bares their soul, sharing the exhilaration, exhaustion, joy, and absurdity of living and parenting with neurodiversity, packed with punk poetic magic and comedy
