My Show is Your Show: International Collaboration in Theatre

How do we make international touring and artistic collaboration more sustainable? When New Zealand is so far away from the rest of the world, how can we ensure a long life for our theatre works, and also be climate responsible? Contemporary performance group Binge Culture (NZ) and game-theatre collective machina eX (Germany) are currently trialling an artistic exchange process - at the end of which two international productions will be presented in Aotearoa and Germany without having to travel a single air mile.

Binge Culture is proud to collaborate with interactive innovators machina eX on bringing their work Disaster to Aotearoa, performing at the Hannah Playhouse in Wellington 1 - 6 October. Meanwhile, machina eX are preparing to present the original Binge Culture show You and A.I. in Düsseldorf in 2025. As well as bringing our work to the world and vice versa, the two companies are excited to have the opportunity to engage deliberately with the artistic strategies, technical means, and working methods of their international colleagues.

In this forum, we invite Pōneke’s theatre industry together to meet with Binge Culture and machina eX in a panel facilitated by green theatremakers Trick of the Light. Find out more about the sharing of interactive work, the artistic exchange process, and what the long-term goals are for touring works this way.

YOUR SHOW IS MY SHOW, MY SHOW IS YOUR SHOW - THE PANEL:
Joel Baxendale - Binge Culture Creative Director, founding member
Clara Ehrenwerth - machina eX General Manager, Writer
Ralph Upton - Binge Culture Dramaturg, Experience Creator, founding member
Lasse Marburg - machina eX Technical Director, Programmer
FACILITATED BY: Hannah Smith & Ralph McCubbin-Howell, Trick of the Light

Doors open with coffee and pastries available from 8:30am. Panel discussion begins at 9am.