Heat - Otago Festival of the Arts

Presented by Ice Floe Productions. Echoing the restrictions of life in the Antarctic, Chapman Tripp award-winning theatre show Heat brings its own alternative energy source to power up the Suter Theatre, telling an original story of love between a woman, a man and a penguin.

It’s 1999 and a husband and wife scientific team hunker down inside a tiny, tightly packed survival capsule on the Ross Ice Shelf, wintering over in the vast frozen Antarctic, accompanied by only web-cam, sporadic radio contact, the amazing aurora australis and a colony of male penguins.

Heat opens a rare glimpse into the extraordinary isolated experience of being an Antarctic scientist, being a human pushed to the extremes, and of the sheer beauty of a winter in the Antarctic.

‘…exciting and intriguing…a gripping and moving tale of magical realism..’
Laurie Atkinson, Dominion Post

Lynda Chanwai-Earle – writer / co-producer
David O’Donnell – director
Gareth Farr – sound designer and composer
Brian King – set design
Marcus McShane – lighting desiger
Kate Prior, Simon Vincent, Byron Coll – performers
Alternative energy system designed by Ebbett Automation Ltd.

Heat contains adult content and full male nudity. Recommended for mature audiences.

This event will be held in the Settlers Festival Theatre at the Otago Settlers Museum.

Event listed by OFA

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