suitcase show
trick of the light | nz tour produced by pannz
wednesday 26 - thursday 27 march 2025
A traveller arrives at a border with a stack of battered cases. From within them, whole worlds will emerge…
Suitcase Show is 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 award-winning collaborators Hannah Smith, Ralph McCubbin Howell, Tane Upjohn-Beatson, Rachel Marlow and Bradley Gledhill (Filament 11 Eleven).
“Weaves a bright, dark magic.” ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ —The Scotsman, UK
Content note: This is an adult work but is suitable for audiences aged 12 and up. Contains haze, flashing lights, references to death, and depictions of violence.
Catch them on tour this March - two nights only in Pōneke
6:30pm Wednesday 26 March 2025
6:30pm Thursday 27 March 2025
Tickets $30-$35 (+ booking fees)
Run time: 55 minutes
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