afterburner (theatre production company)
| Formation | 2001 |
|---|---|
| Website | https://m.facebook.com/afterburner-758538540872533/ |
afterburner is a New Zealand-based collective of theatre professionals working with light and sound. The company was founded by Martyn Roberts in 2001, and specialises in productions hybridising installation and theatre performance.[1][2]
Selected productions[edit]
Productions include:
- Man on the Moon (2001)
- line:near (2001)
- The Telescope (2002)
- crossing the concourse (2004)
- Fog and Mirrors (2005).[1]
- Radiolight (2005)
- Pathlight (2006)
- The Singularity (2008) was written and directed by Miranda Manasiadis, and co-designed by Martyn Roberts and Rob Larsen.[1]
- The 2017 production Dark Matter won two Dunedin Fringe Festival awards in 2016, and Best of Fringe 2017 in the New Zealand Fringe Festival in Wellington.[3] Dark Matter was also featured in the 2018 Dunedin Arts Festival and at the 2019 Prague Quadrennial as a virtual reality exhibit.[1]
- Last resort cafe at the Allen Hall Theatre.
At the time of the 2019 production Fission the team of 19 theatre professionals held 19 awards between them.[3] Fission was performed over five nights in March 2019 at the Allen Hall Theatre, telling the story of Lise Meitner, who discovered nuclear fission but was overlooked for a Nobel Prize despite being nominated 48 times.[3][4]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 School of Performing Arts. "Martyn Roberts". www.otago.ac.nz. Archived from the original on 28 June 2021. Retrieved 2021-07-09. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Transforming the Dark: Using Colour to Compose Sound in Dark Matter". Critical Stages/Scènes critiques. 2020-06-03. Retrieved 2021-12-12.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 University of Otago (March 2019). "Fission". University of Otago. Archived from the original on 9 July 2021. Retrieved 2021-07-09. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Fission : Dunedin Fringe Festival". www.dunedinfringe.nz. Archived from the original on 9 July 2021. Retrieved 2021-07-09. Unknown parameter
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