Sheep

Long Cloud explores epic landscapes of Aotearoa New Zealand.

'A sheep is only a lamb's way of making another lamb'

Long Cloud Youth Theatre performs the New Zealand world premiere of Sheep by award winning playwright Arthur Meek (Collapsing Creation, On the Conditions and Possibilities of Helen Clark Taking Me As Her Young Lover). Sheep travels through the history of Aotearoa New Zealand and investigates specific moments that have defined us as a nation.

On Tuesday night performances there will be a forum after the show led by Andrew Campbell, former National Radio political commentator and current Green Party political director.

Sheep is about products and people, technology and biology, and the tangled relationship between us and our means of production. 24 young actors perform six short snapshots linked by family and the journey of wool from sheep's back to wearable product. Starting in a Canterbury whorehouse in 1863, and ending in Christchurch in the aftermath of the 2011 earthquake, Sheep is a series of quirky meetings between young people who are trying to make their lives better in the face of an increasingly complex relationship between technology and biology. Sheep asks whether these things exist to serve us, or we exist to serve them.

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