OUR OWN LITTLE MESS
In this offbeat and wildly creative theatrical experience audiences are given headphones to listen in real time to the inner thoughts of the characters' minds.
OUR OWN LITTLE MESS
Aotearoa NZ Festival of the Arts 2023
Q Theatre Matchbox 2024
Inspired by Olivia Laing’s The Lonely City, Haruki Murakami’s The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, and the Daniels' Everything, Everywhere, All at Once; the intertwined lives of five characters celebrate the beauty found in the mundane and the riddles of the human inner voice. Part mystery, part comedy and part thriller Our Own Little Mess is a journey into the existential existence of every human being.
Venture into the private lives and thoughts of a group of unconnected Kiwis who through their musings and a healthy dose of magic realism, connect as human beings. Follow the inner voices of a ventriloquist having an existential crisis in the desert, a stressed-out mum yearning for her partner, an academic wrestling with rejection, a young woman grieving with her mother and an art gallery attendant navigating the gay scene in NYC.
Produced by A Slightly Isolated Dog and Sums Selvarajan
Directed by Leo Gene Peters and Jane Yonge
Devised by Jack Buchanan, Laurel Devenie, Isla Mayo, Louise Jiang,
Andrew Paterson, Maaka Pohatu & Jane and Leo
Production Design by Meg Rollandi
Composition by Dr. Jeremy Mayall
Sound by Sam Clavis
Collaboration with cognitive neuroscientists Dr. David Carmel & Dr. Gina Grimshaw (Victoria University Wellington)
