Suitcase Show
Closes
Jul 12, 2025Posted on
Jun 10, 2025Event type:
Theatre ,Price:
Under 30 $29, Early Bird $40, Student $44, Full price $47Venue:
Q TheatreAddress:
305 Queen StreetRegion:
Auckland ,
“A traveller arrives at a border with a stack of battered cases. From within them, whole worlds will emerge…”
Suitcase Show is an eclectic box set of short stories, each one told out of a suitcase. Dark, spiky, and comic, it touches on climate change, love and death, travel, and secrets that we carry with us – an overthrown autocrat finds themselves on the run from their own shadow, an astronaut turns their telescope back on earth and back in time. The staging is inventive, from lo-fi shadowplay to wireless projection, from dancing disembodied hands to narratives that crackle from a 70s stereo suitcase.
After a sell out season at Auckland Arts Festival, Suitcase Show returns to Q Theatre for three nights only this July.
Trick of the Light is renowned for crafting inventive shows and intricate narratives. Suitcase Show reunites award-winning collaborators Hannah Smith, Ralph McCubbin Howell, Tane Upjohn-Beatson, Rachel Marlow and Bradley Gledhill (Filament 11 Eleven).