HOLE - Green-Powered Antarctic Theatre

🔥Lynda Chanwai-Earle🔥is thrilled to see her second play in the Antarctic Theatre Trilogy see its premiere in the development season with the WTF! at Circa Theatre, with an exciting new cast of acclaimed actors. Stevie Hancox-Monk plays Bonny the Greenpeace Activist, Elle Wootton plays Stella the NZ Scientist and Sepelini Mua'au plays Ioane, the US Navy SEAL.

Antarctica is vital in shaping our world's climate. HOLE by Lynda Chanwai-Earle's legendary real-life women American Atmospheric scientist #SusanSolomon & Greenpeace International Activist Maj De Poorter helped shape some world history between 1986-1991, with the establishment of the international #MontrealProtocol to ban CFC's behind the depletion of ozone, and the conservation efforts to keep Antarctica free from mineral exploitation. Lynda says that feedback from both these women has been vital to her script & story. We have invited both these legendary women to participate in this free public forum & Q&A. We're hoping to achieve this as part of HOLE's Boosted NZ campaign.

💙 Lynda has been gripped by Antarctica since her friend and inaugural Antarctic Fellow Chris Orsman visited the coldest, driest and windiest continent on earth in 1997. The green-powered Antarctic Theatre Trilogy explores the interface between art and science. Her first award-winning play HEAT is a love triangle between a woman, a man and a penguin, set in the endless night of winter in 1999. HOLE is set during the Wild West days of 1980’s Antarctica, after the discovery of the ozone hole. Like HEAT, it’s another love triangle but this time between two women and one man during the endless day of the Antarctic summer. HEART goes back further in time to the 1950’s when Hillary’s little red tractor traversed the Ice, when scientists drilled into the heart of the continent for the first ice core samples, and when they found radiation in the snow after Hiroshima, Nagasake and prolific nuclear testing across the Pacific 💙

🎭 Lynda researched and wrote HOLE during her 2019 IIML Writer’s Residency, and began gathering the original outstanding key creatives behind HEAT, to once again lift her new play HOLE from the page. Director David O’Donnell, Composer Gareth Farr ONZM, and Antarctic Fellow 2005, set Designer Brian King and Alternative Energy designer Marcus McShane have been the team of men supporting her artistic vision since HEAT first premiered at BATS Theatre with the STAB festival in 2008. Lynda is also thrilled to have the support of a team of women driving the production, marketing and publicity of HOLE (Poppy Serano and Courtney Rose Brown), including supporting producers Sally Richards, Linda Lee, Jo Marsh and HJ Kilkelly, and ace Stage Manager Sam Tippet 🎭

The three plays in her Antarctic Theatre Trilogy are standalone productions that foreshadow climate change issues; check out Ice Floe’s website here: https://icefloetapui.com/ 😍

We’re over the moon at being able to stage her epic new work ❄️✨❄️✨❄️

Photo by Robert Cross during her residency where she researched and worked on HOLE 💙

Thank you so much to all who have donated! We're getting closer to reaching our goal, so all our LOVE and gratitude! 💚🐧🐋❤Our 5 night development season almost sold out! Thank you Aotearoa for going back to level 1 so wait-listed audiences can now see our show at Circa Theatre in Wellington this week. Don't forget to book at circa@circa.co.nz

Help keep HOLE eco-powered and off-the-grid and raise awareness around Antarctic conservation! We open tonight! See our stunning cast and crew photos! Check out our interview on Radio New Zealand here!

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/standing-room-only/audio/2018764806/hole-puts-the-antarctic-ozone-layer-on-stage

And check out our write up in Stuff!

https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/stage-and-theatre/122815940/greenpowered-black-comedy-climate-change-theatre-with-its-own-renewable-energy-source

We opened last night at Circa Theatre to a great reception & lots of buzz! Our shows sold-out under level 2 but thankfully getting back to level 1 meant audiences aren't missing out. HOWEVER we still need your help to reach our goal of $2,500 to keep our black comedy HOLE green-powered for future seasons, and to raise awareness around sustainable theatre! Please donate, we love your generosity no matter what you give!

Check out our STEAMY ❤🐧💖💋 REVIEW in Theatreview today here:

https://www.theatreview.org.nz/reviews/review.php?id=12410

And our interview on Radio New Zealand's Standing Room Only with Lynn Freeman this week: https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/standing-room-only/audio/2018764806/hole-puts-the-antarctic-ozone-layer-on-stage

GREEN POWER and sustainable theatre practice - raising funds and awareness for HOLE and our Antarctic Theatre Trilogy!

Your contributions meant we were able to realise our green-powered vision for HOLE's development season at Circa Theatre last week 22-26 Sept. Your donations also mean that our team can carry on with the good work and green-power HOLE for its full season at Circa Theatre late next year. We can continue to develop and improve our alternative energy system and HOLE and HEART (the third play in the Antarctic Theatre Trilogy) can also look forward to a green-powered production. THANK YOU BOOSTED NZ and THANK YOU GORGEOUS DONORS! 💖🐧💖💖💖💖🐧🐧🐧💖