Café Müller / The Rite of Spring

Café Müller / The Rite of Spring

Dance, Theatre 17 – 20 Mar

Discover why the great Pina Bausch (1940–2009) inspires such devotion when her legendary company comes to New Zealand for the first time.

Her work has the scale of grand opera and the dream-quality of Fellini's films
The Independent
The God that Comes

The God that Comes

Theatre, Music 15 – 20 Mar

Part play, part concert, all Bacchanalian, this booze-soaked rock ‘n’ roll cabaret is a sexy one-man show overflowing with “deft wit and razor sharp humour” (Calgary Sun, Canada). 
small metal objects

small metal objects

Theatre 16 – 19 Mar

A theatrical gem that unfolds amid the pedestrian traffic of the city. With individual sets of headphones, the audience is wired in to an intensely personal drama being played out somewhere in the crowd.
FamilyNZWorld Premiere
The ACB With Honora Lee

The ACB With Honora Lee

Theatre 27 Feb – 26 Mar

Quirky humour, playfulness and intergenerational love are at the heart of this adaptation of the 2012 novel by Kate De Goldi, one of New Zealand’s most loved authors, popular with adults and children alike.
Free
Breaking Barriers

Breaking Barriers

Artist Talk, Theatre 15 Mar

The company Back to Back explain how their work smallmetal objects questions the assumptions of what is possible in theatre, along with the assumptions we all hold about ourselves and each other.
FreeNZ
A Novel Approach

A Novel Approach

Artist Talk, Theatre 16 Mar

The ACB with Honora Lee author Kate De Goldi talks with Jane Waddell, who adapted the novel for Circa’s Festival production, about of bringing this beloved New Zealand story to life.

La Verità

La Verità

dance, CIRQUE, Theatre, Spectacular 02 – 07 Mar

Enter the world of a surrealist painting, with a heady mix of spectacular acrobatics, theatre, dance and music performed against the monumental Salvador Dalí backdrop that sparked this cirque show.

Cineastas

Cineastas

Theatre 10 – 16 Mar

In this stunning two-tier staging, downstairs you’ll follow the work, lives and loves of four film-makers over a year in Buenos Aires, while upstairs the films they’re making come to life.  
Complexity of Belonging

Complexity of Belonging

Dance, Theatre 11 – 13 Mar

A daring and darkly humorous exploration of identity in the age of social media from two of dance and theatre’s most unflinching makers.
NZWorld Premiere
The Devil's Half-Acre

The Devil's Half-Acre

Theatre 09 – 13 Mar

The award-winning team that delighted audiences with The Bookbinder and The Road that Wasn’tThere return with a darker, more adult tale of the uncanny.
NZWorld Premiere
The Woman Who Forgot

The Woman Who Forgot

Theatre 02 – 09 Mar

Who needs a stage when you have an entire city? Fans of the 2014 Festival’s “subtlemobs” won’t want to miss this even more multi-dimensional piece of adventure theatre.
FreeNZ
Sketch to Stage

Sketch to Stage

Artist Talk, Theatre 03 Mar

Theatre Stampede and Nightsong Productions are known for their ingenious staging of theatre work. Find how they brought Te Pō from sketch to stage.

Free
Born in a Barn

Born in a Barn

Theatre, Music, Artist Talk 29 Feb

In this artist talk, learn about the theatre company Kneehigh from Mike Shepherd, director of Dead Dog in a Suitcase.
NZ
Not in our Neighbourhood

Not in our Neighbourhood

Theatre 26 – 28 Feb

Kali Kopae gives an incredible performance in all four roles in a thought-provoking and refreshingly honest one-woman play about the many guises of domestic violence. 
FreeNZ
Page Turners

Page Turners

Theatre 06 Mar

The stories of Wellingtonians – and trouble-makers – Te Rauparaha, Robin Hyde, Nancy Wake, James K Baxter and Carmen Rupe told from the set of a three-metre-high pop-up book. 
Family
Chalk About

Chalk About

dance, Theatre 01 – 06 Mar

This highly inventive show takes the old playground game of making chalk outlines and turns it into a look at how we fill in the outlines of each other’s identities.
Family
Waves

Waves

Theatre 05 Mar

The unofficial history of how Elizabeth Moncello invented the butterfly stroke with the help of fish, penguins and other aquatic friends while growing up on Australia’s Gabo Island in the 1930s.
NZWorld Premiere
Te Pō

Te Pō

Theatre 01 – 05 Mar

A policeman, a priest and a blind man look for clues that will lead them to the missing playwright Bruce Mason in this eloquent and surprising comedy punctuated by Māori showband songs. 
Family
Every Brilliant Thing

Every Brilliant Thing

Theatre 02 – 05 Mar

You’re six years old. Mum’s in hospital. Dad says she’s “done something stupid”. She finds it hard to be happy. So you start to make a list of everything that’s brilliant about the world.
Dead Dog in a Suitcase (and other love songs) A New Beggar's Opera

Dead Dog in a Suitcase (and other love songs) A New Beggar's Opera

Theatre, Music 26 Feb – 02 Mar

Busting with wit, wonder and weirdness, this was one of The Guardian’s Top 10 theatre shows of 2014. The ever-inventive, multi-talented Kneehigh rework John Gay’s bawdy 18th-century musical satire The Beggar’s Opera.
Free
Do I Belong Here?

Do I Belong Here?

Artist Talk, Theatre 10 Mar

Chunky Move’s brilliant Complexity of Belonging explores identity inthe age of social media. Join Anouk van Dijk and some of the cast to discuss their extraordinary work.