Theatre | Basement Theatre | 6 September - 10 September 2022
Winner of two Auckland Fringe (2022) awards:
where The Asians At?’ award and ‘Organised Chaos’ award
A theatre experiment for Gay Men in their 30s. Never to be repeated with the same performer. It might be best described as Nassim Soleimanpour’s White Rabbit, Red Rabbit on Amyl Nitrite.
Premiered as part of Tiny Fest 2021 (titled: Gay Death Stock Take) and redeveloped for Auckland Fringe 2022 with support from Playmarket’s Te Hono programme and written during the 2022 Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship.
“Each night the performer changes, and I can only imagine how a different performer might completely change the message and the tone of the show. There’s infinite potential to view this show over and over again and take away something new each time.”
Alex Woodward, badapple.gay
“LGBTQIA+ and minority communities are rarely heard. Our voices are stifled beneath the loudness of capitalist power structures. Our efforts to dispute, change and revolutionize are often met with “does everything have to be an argument with you?”. Gay Death Stocktake feels like a calculated inversion of this conversation. Rather than confronting the audience, the performance disarms you with chaos and humour in order to tell you something you need to know. “
Jennifer Cheuk & Olivia Wright, Rat World Magazine