Show description
“Red Phone manages to break down the boundary between artist and audience.” — La Nación
Step inside a beautifully handcrafted phone booth and pick up a vintage red telephone. On the other end is another “audience member” which could be a friend, a family member, or a complete stranger and between you sits a teleprompter loaded with a collection of scripts, including one by acclaimed Aotearoa playwright Victor Rodger ONZM.
Part theatre and part social experiment, Red Phone is the theatrical equivalent of singing in the shower. Playful, intimate, and unexpectedly revealing, it invites you to be both performer and spectator; creating small, unforgettable moments that linger long after the conversation ends.
This FREE installation by Canadian interdisciplinary theatre company Boca del Lupo has toured Canada, Norway, and Latin America to critical acclaim. Now it arrives in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland for a strictly limited season.
This Auckland season is presented by Auckland Live in association with PANNZ and Aotearoa New Zealand Festival of the Arts.
About the company
Boca del Lupo is a Canadian interdisciplinary theatre company led by Artistic Directors Sherry J. Yoon and Jay Dodge. Since its inception the company has created over 60 original works, touring nationally and internationally in theatres as well as site specific presentations.
Sherry J. Yoon directs and co-creates the company’s productions, while Jay Dodge’s writing, performance, and design work are central to its aesthetic.
The company has brought artists and audiences to old growth forests with performers rigged up 40 to 75 feet in the treetops, to darken shipping containers experiencing an auditory journey of crossing the Pacific, and under the ocean waters following an archaeologist 150 years into the future.
Their work has been recognized with numerous awards, including Jessies for Outstanding Design, Production, and Performance, the Critic’s Choice Award for Innovation, the Alcan Performing Arts & Patrick O’Neil Awards, and Sherry as a finalist for the Siminovitch Award for directing.
