SYNOPSIS
Bruce Mason Award Winner
Chapman Tripp Award Winner
A new play from award-winning writer Eli Kent (The Intricate Art
Of Actually Caring and Thinning).
Siggy is a Generation Y casualty. He maxed out his student loan;
uni is ejecting him; his sisters are fed up with bailing him out;
his loser uncle is behaving strangely; and his father, a famous
seismologist, has disappeared off the face of the earth. But Siggy
is clever. Siggy is curious. Together with his best mate, Elvis,
Siggy is on a mission to get some adhesive in his life and find out
the truth about his dad.
Packed full of big ideas and a squillion little surprises,
poetry, mysteries and full-on theatricality, Black Confetti is
about the death of the party and surviving the earthquakes in our
lives.
"Every so often a new playwright comes along who blows your
socks off. Eli Kent has been proving his worth and winning awards
with highly original, complex, funny and moving plays like The
Intricate Art Of Actually Caring and Thinning. We're all very
excited about Black Confetti, the new work we've commissioned from
Eli. Think Hamlet mixed with "Alice In Wonderland" and Breaking
Bad. It's streetwise yet highly literate, very funny yet profoundly
moving. Eli Kent is an extraordinary new voice in New Zealand
playwriting." - Colin
Contains strong language, sexual references, nudity and
drug use.
Suitable for 16 years + only
THE
BUZZ
REVIEW
NBR
It is with this edgy, surreal dialogue that Eli Kent
captures the nuances of characters floundering in their shifting
and fracturing worlds, trying to make sense of their relat...
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