TOUR-READY WORKS
Show Duration: Min. 4 hrs, max. 6 hrs Venue: Suitable for galleries, halls and theatres Stage Size: min. 5m wide x 4m deep Capacity: up to 200, should be able to easily come and go throughout Audience: 15 yrs+ Technical summary: set: five chairs, crepe paper backdrop; basic sound system; lighting: basic wash plus festoon lights (BC to provide); open flame: candle. Touring Party: 5 AWARDS 2017 Shortlisted Total Theatre Award for Innovation, Experimentation & Playing with Form, Edinburgh Fringe 2017 Sold Out Show, Edinburgh Fringe 2015 Spirit of the Fringe Award, Auckland Fringe 2014 Highly Commended Most Original Concept, NZ Fringe TOURING HISTORY 2018 Old 505, Sydney Fringe, Australia 2018 Art House, Melbourne Fringe, Australia 2017 Summerhall, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, UK 2017 Flux, Wellington, NZ 2015 La MaMa, NZ New Performance Festival, New York, USA 2015 Basement Theatre, Auckland Fringe Festival, Auckland, NZ 2014 Matchbox Studios, NZ Fringe, Wellington, NZ Go to project page... |
Break Up [we need to talk]
★★★★ "The casts's incredible skill provides an unusually insightful analysis of how difficult it is to get the balance right" There’s no easy way to do this… Five performers, five hours, one desperate conversation.
Break Up [We Need to Talk] is a darkly comic, highly collaborative and slyly competitive durational performance. It takes the most private and delicate of interpersonal acts and makes it into a spectator sport. Five performers play two characters. One performer sits at the front, and four behind. The performers at the back speak in turn, one after the other, stepping in after the front performer speaks. Their challenge is to build a coherent character by listening closely to their fellow performers. All the while, exhaustion sets in as the five hour marathon continues, with no breaks. Everything is improvised within a strict set of strict performance rules. Throughout the show, audiences are encouraged to come and go from this emotional tennis match as they please, and tweet their responses to the work. ★★★★ "The performances are pure brilliance" 
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Show Duration: 45 min.
Pre-show workshop duration: 90 min. Venue: Large outdoor public space Stage Size: outdoor, min. 8m x 8m Capacity: up to 30 whales performers, up to 40 response volunteers and unlimited general public. Audience: universal Technical: access to source of water, secure dressing room close to site Touring Party: 5 AWARDS 2017 Shortlisted Fringe Sustainable Practice Award, Edinburgh Fringe 2015 Spirit of the Fringe Award, Auckland Fringe 2013 Best in Fringe, NZ Fringe Festival 2013 CNZ Award for Innovation, NZ Fringe Festival 2013 Outdoor Award, NZ Fringe Festival TOURING HISTORY 2017 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, UK 2017 Pik 'n' Mix, Auckland Live, Auckland NZ 2017 National Children's Festival, Wellington, NZ 2016 Dunedin Arts Festival, NZ 2015 Tauranga Arts Festival, NZ 2015 Hamilton Gardens Arts Festival, NZ 2015 Auckland Live, Auckland Fringe Festival, NZ 2014 National Whale Centre, Picton, NZ 2015 Splore Festival, Tapapakanga Regional Park, NZ 2013 NZ Fringe Festival, Wellington, NZ Go to project page... |
Whales
"A remarkable happening" Binge Culture’s Whales is a community-building event in which strangers on the street suddenly find themselves working together to save a pod of stranded whales and help them back into the ocean.
Fifteen or more performers embody a pod of pilot whales. Dressed in black wetsuits with crude flippers strapped to their arms, the whales emerge and ‘swim’ slowly across the land. Past surprised spectators, the pod glides serenely through the crowds, only to become stranded. Binge Culture performers dressed in hi-vis arrive to co-ordinate the rescue, enlisting audience volunteers to help out. Working in teams to fill buckets with water and using the wet towels to keep the animals cool - they sit and talk and even sing to the whales. The performance ends with the audience refloating the whales, re-orientating and, as the 'tide comes in', forming a human chain to usher the whales out to sea. Saving the whales is a beautifully simple action, which encourages broad public immersion into the fiction. We run a 90 minute pre-performance workshop, first teaching general knowledge about whale strandings, then splitting into two groups to learn either how to perform as a whale or about rescue protocol. The first group become the whale performers and the second, proactive audience members who help create a critical mass of participants in the public playing space.
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Show Duration: 55 min
Venue: inner city park or similar public space Capacity: up to 30 (up to 3 shows a day with a maximum of 15 shows in a week) Audience: 14 yrs + Technical: secure dressing room close to site. We provide the headphones and devices Touring Party: 3 AWARDS 2017 Nominated Most Original Production, Wellington Theatre Awards TOURING HISTORY 2017 BATS Theatre, Wellington, NZ 2017 Summerhall, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, UK Go to project page... |
Ancient Shrines and Half Truths
★★★★ "Trip advisor meets Pokemon Go in this absurd, fantastical tour" Ancient Shrines and Half Truths is an immersive audio experience taking place in and around an inner city park that audiences participate in via smartphone technology. The show gently satirises the concept that ‘real travellers belong everywhere’, and that anyone can be a local if their tourist experience is simply authentic enough.
A new-form, autonomous performance experience, designed for an agile and aware global audience. Participants choose their own journey via the smartphone app’s pick-a-path system. Due to the variety of experiences on offer (enough to exceed the show’s duration), repeat visits often occur. A welcome surprise for the audience is that not everything is delivered via audio. They meet clandestine performers in the park who create surprising and delightful intersections with the narration. Audience engage with actors, and are invited to playfully participate in fantasy tourist adventures such as being in a blockbuster film or stumbling into a fragile cultural ceremony. ★★★★ “...manages to mercilessly send up the whole traveller-vs-tourist ethos" |
Show Duration: 25 min
Audience: 18+ Venue: A bar that is not too loud, with ample bathrooms and street access Capacity: solo experience Technical: presenter distributes audio devices to audience. Audience members need to be staggered at 5 minute intervals. Touring Party: 0 |
Happy Hour
No-one said having fun was easy. Happy Hour is a 25 minute rent-a-friend that helps steer the listener into the wild ocean of the night.
A 25 minute solo audio experience that starts in a bar then heads out into the night on an increasingly existential journey. The latest in Binge Culture's Unauthorised Audio Tours series. Binge Culture's unauthorised audio tours offer an alternative take on familiar spaces. Something like site specific theatrical podcasts. Previous audio tours include creations for the National Museum Te Papa, New World Supermarket, and Victoria University. This is the first of Binge's audio tours that is situation-specific, to be experienced in any bar. Audience are provided with audio devices with the track loaded on and directed to sit at the bar and start the track. |
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Workshops
To complement the above shows, we are able to deliver workshops on devising, audio technology in performance, rule-based improvisation etc. |
Contact: Joel Baxendale | Creative Producer joel@bingeculture.co.nz +64 273191868 |