THE BASEMENT TAPES

NZ Fringe Festival, BATS Theatre
Melbourne Fringe Festival, 2017
Basement Theatre,
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018

Following her grandmother’s death, a girl faces the overwhelming task of clearing out the basement. She discovers a series of mysterious tape recordings made by her grandmother. As she hears these tapes for the first time, things start to unravel... 

At its heart a ghost story, The Basement Tapes is a physical performance that blends audio and visual elements to create a show of ever building suspense. Taking both performers and audience into the lurking shadows and the detritus of a cluttered basement, together they must face the memories and secrets that emerge.

Twin Peaks meets Serial in this award-winning New Zealand mystery, which combines the immediacy of physical performance with the imaginative capabilities of audio recording. Squeezed close together among the detritus of a cluttered basement, audience and performer face the waves of secrets and memories that emerge.

Created by Stella Reid, Jane Yonge, Thomas Lambert & Oliver Morse
Produced by Zanetti Productions
Performed by Stella Reid
Directed by Jane Yonge
Sound Design by Thomas Lambert
Spatial Design by Oliver Morse
Technical operation and lighting design by Jason Longstaff

WINNER:
Fringe First, Week One (Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018)
Best Performance Award - The Stage (Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018)
Best Director (Wellington Theatre Awards, 2017)
Outstanding Performance - Stella Reid (NZ Fringe Festival 2017)
Melbourne Fringe Tour Ready Award (NZ Fringe Festival 2017)

NOMINEE:
Best Performance (2017 Melbourne Fringe Festival)
Best Directed Chaos (NZ Fringe Festival 2017)
Best of Fringe (NZ Fringe Festival 2017)
Outstanding Performance (Wellington Theatre Awards, 2017)
Production of the Year (Wellington Theatre Awards, 2017)

SUMMERHALL
(EDINBURGH FESTIVAL FRINGE)
1 - 26 August 2018 (2, 13, 20)

BASEMENT THEATRE
27 - 31 March 2018
Auckland, New Zealand

MELBOURNE FRINGE
23 - 30 September 2017
Melbourne, Australia

BATS THEATRE
30 May - 3 June 2017
Wellington, New Zealand

NEW ZEALAND FRINGE FESTIVAL
10-14 February 2017
Wellington, New Zealand

Review from The Scotsman by Niki Boyle, 20 August 2018: https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/culture/edinburgh-festivals/theatre-review-the-basement-tapes-summerhall-1-4786868

Review from The Age by Anne-Marie Peard, 6 October 2017. The same review also features in The Sydney Morning Herald: http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/stage/fringe-festival-review-the-basement-tapes-20170929-gyrapz.html

Review from Broadway Baby by Charlie Ralph, 13 October 2018:
https://broadwaybaby.com/shows/the-basement-tapes/734027

Review from Exeunt Magazine by Tom Moyser, 20 August 2018:
http://exeuntmagazine.com/reviews/edinburgh-review-basement-tapes/

Interview with Theatre Weekly, London, 26 July 2018:
https://theatreweekly.com/edinburgh-interview-jane-yonge-on-the-basement-tapes/

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