Silo announces it's 2014 Season

Media Release – November 21st 2013

The Sum of Its Parts: Celebrating Silo’s Favourite Humans and Bon Voyage Bosher

2014 marks the departure of Silo’s founding Artistic Director Shane Bosher. Refusing to spend the year in mourning, Silo intends to celebrate all dimensions of their unique family, and of being human. The 2014 season touts the talents of familiar faces and long-standing collaborators; talent that Bosher has nurtured over his time with this much loved company.

Kicking off the year is perhaps Silo’s most successful production in recent times; BREL returns for a stormy, passionate one night stand in Auckland’s Town Hall in March. After spending 2013 tripping around the regional festivals of NZ and a season with the NZ International Arts Festival next February, BREL will be well and truly warmed up. Featuring once more the incredible, heart crushing voices of Jon Toogood, Julia Deans, Tama Waipara, Jennifer Ward-Lealand and musicianship from wunderkind Leon Radojkovic and his band.

It’s been 20 years since the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning epic premiered on Broadway and 10 years since HBO aired its legendary version starring Al Pacino, Meryl Streep and Emma Thompson.
In an almighty parting shot, Shane Bosher proudly takes the helm of what is set to be the most highly anticipated production of the year, ANGELS IN AMERICA. This epic marathon will be performed in two parts and performed in repertory throughout April at Q Theatre. Those with an appetite for marathon viewing can binge on one of the six back-to-back performances of both parts over 3 weekends. Mia Blake, Alison Bruce and Jarod Rawiri – names synonymous with Silo’s history – come together for a work that is dramatic, hilarious, heroic, daring, moving and, above all else, human.

The month of June welcomes an anarchic black comedy that detonates the very themes that have underpinned much of Silo’s programming– the family. Silo’s incoming Artistic Director and newest family member will jump head first into directing SUNDAY ROAST, a work written by Auckland’s most prolific playwright Thomas Sainsbury. Gathering together for the innocuous ritual of the Sunday roast, the entire berserko family is brought to life by Adam Gardiner and Toni Potter, each member a living embodiment of each one of the seven deadly sins. Not just a bloated belly full of laughs, Sainsbury’s gleefully depraved play is a condemnation of the values and practises of the industrialised farming industry and the hypocrisy of wealth and consumerism in our fair, green land.

A return to the edgy, visceral dramas Silo has been proud to present throughout its history; BELLEVILLE, by Amy Herzog, borrows heavily from Hitchcock and creates a chilling story of deception and dependency. A disorientating narrative, with normality cloaking the tense underbelly of newlyweds Zack and Abby’s existence, this psychological domestic thriller speaks of how within intimate relationships there will always be things unknowable; no matter how much we love or trust. Commissioned by likeminded, Chicago theatre company Steppenwolf, Belleville was an acclaimed success, going on to play a sell-out run in New York in 2011. Oliver Driver directs Sophie Henderson in what is set to be a breakout dramatic role throughout August and September.

A show that lives and breathes as the audience watches it; THE BLIND DATE PROJECT fittingly sees Silo return to where it all began in the final show of Bosher’s final programme – the space now known as The Basement. Presented in association with Sydney based company Ride On Theatre, the premise is simple – a woman sits alone waiting for her date to arrive. The catch? The actress has no idea who she is about to meet. No scripts, no rehearsals, the show is created live on the spot, with direction delivered via txt message by Ride On’s Tanya Goldberg.  Interspersed with wildly funny karaoke singing and a surly resident karaoke hostess The Blind Date Project sits alongside 2013’s sleeper hit White Rabbit/Red Rabbit as a unique theatrical experience where no two performances are the same. Expect appearances from old school Silo chums Fasitua Amosa, David Van Horn and Edwin Wright, along with Jess Holly Bates, Michelle Blundell, Pua Magasiva, Sam Snedden, Jackie Van Beek, Matt Whelan and a few other surprises.

Silo 2014 – it’s not goodbye. It’s more like Hello: a great big proclamation of recognition.

Season tickets are available now. BREL and ANGELS IN AMERICA are on sale to public from December 16th. For more information or bookings, visit http://silotheatre.co.nz

SILO: 2014 PROGRAMME
BREL: 4th March 2014
ANGELS IN AMERICA: 21st March – 13th April 2014
SUNDAY ROAST: 5th – 28th June 2014
BELLEVILLE: 28th August – 20th September 2013
THE BLIND DATE PROJECT: 4th – 29th November 2014

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