Awards

2018 Auckland Fringe Festival
Best Performance (Theatre),
Best Director,
Auckland Live ‘Free Your Mind’ Award,
Best Overall Production Design

Media

“a charming and disarming unravelling of simple suburbian desires, told through the lens of a character with Down syndrome…Duncan Armstrong is captivating and the mundane is made strange, delightful and alarming with Meg Rollandi’s performance design and Jason Wright’s composition” – Rosabel Tan, Pantograph Punch

“It’s ultra-modern romance that to me bears the markings of Charlie Brooker of Black Mirror fame. It’s definitely a different take on the ‘online dating’ angle that seems to ask more questions that give answers, but therein lies the beauty of this show.” – Wal Reid, Nz Entertainment Podcast

“The concept of the show is original and leaves a lot of room for creativity, especially as breaking the traditional love-finding tropes means that the end result of the romance is never predictable. The ambiguity about what is real, what is fantasy and whether that question even matters drives the performance and opens a window into the life of someone longing for love but confined by isolation and the mundanities of his life” – Flora Gosling, Independent Reviewer

“The idea of the ideal partner is one with which many can relate, especially when juxtaposed against the other woman in Chris’ life – his mother. Think Her by Spike Jonze, but instead of learning how to reconnect with the world through the loss of love and false idolisation, our protagonist is learning the importance of independence through the manifestations (both good and bad) of his psyche.” – Matt Baker, Theatre Scenes

Thanks

Amanda Tito, Andi Crown, Andrew Gunn, Anne de Geus, Anton Carter, Arts Access Aotearoa, Ben Clausen, Charley Draper, Claire O’Loughlin, Clare Noble, Elspeth Tilley, Esther Roberts, Faye Jensen, Felicity Birch, Ian Armstrong, Iona McNaughton, Jane Yonge, Jason Longstaff, Katie Taylor-Duke, Kiri Olds, Logan Cole, Lucie Camp, Lucy Winstanley, Luke Hanna, Massey University English & Theatre Department, Massey University, College of Creative Arts, Max Riddle, Nick Zwart, Nisha Madhan, Paora Allen, Everybody at the Basement Theatre, Ross McCormack, Stevie Hancox-Monk, Toi Poneke, Tommy Berridge and our Boosted supporters.