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Surviving personal loss, genocide and standing solo in front of an audience | Disruptors

In the sixth episode of Disruptors, Jean Sergent and Sarita So talk about their solo shows Change Your Own Life and Digging to Cambodia – two…

Disruptors Live: Artists talk about putting their suffering into art

Do you need to suffer to be an artist?

On Saturday Re: partnered with the Disruptors podcast and Basement Theatre to hold Good Grief: a live panel…

Disruptors 4: The quiet persistence of theatre life in lockdown

In this special fourth episode of Disruptors, recorded in the depths of lockdown, four theatre practitioners reflect on what happens when the disruption in their work…

Disruptors 3: The problem with having a seat at the table

Episode three of Disruptors pairs up the incoming and outgoing producers-in-residence at Basement Theatre – Elyssia Wilson-Heti and Alice Kirker. If, like us, you’re still a…

Disruptors 2: Sarita Das and Alice Canton on the transformative power of art

Sarita Das sets out to make art to “feel less alone”, and “more connected to the giant existence that is being human”.  The Tāmaki Makaurau theatre…

Disruptors: Frickin Dangerous Bro navigate the Pākehā spaces of comedy

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In the first ever episode of Disruptors, Comedy trio Frickin Dangerous Bro (Jamaine Ross, James Roque and Pax Assadi) talk about New Zealand’s comedy scene. 

How…