Sean Burnett Dugdale-Martin
Disaster is a theatre game about game-theatre. Here’s a link to its eventfinda page. It is part of an international show exchange/long distance relationship between contemporary performance group Binge Culture and game theatre collective machina Ex. Accompanying the run at The Hannah Playhouse the companies hosted a panel at Goethe-Institut New Zealand. I was invited to write a feature on the phenomenon and I was giddy to accept because I’m nosey and would love to know if this German nerd (machina Ex) can make long-distance work with the wide-eyed and excitable New Zealand greenie (Binge Culture). The panel was hosted by Hannah Smith and Ralph McCubbin-Howell from Trick of the Light, but has this trick been right (I’m sorry) between these two companies, now that they are halfway through their correspondence?