RAW: Cell Fish

Hand-picked by Artistic Director Carla van Zon, RAW features works at different stages of development – from concept onwards. Artists’ ideas are presented in the raw and give you an opportunity to get an insider’s view of the various processes, artistic practices and hard work that go into creating a production. 

A black comedy-come-psychological thriller, Cell Fish explores the inside workings of a New Zealand prison and the inside workings of the minds of the incarcerated. A kind of Orange is the New Black if it was directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Cell Fish follows a group of prisoners trying to increase their chances of parole through a Shakespeare workshop. Who will succeed? Who will fail? Who is genuine? And who’s saying whatever they need to get paroled?

Directed by Jason Te Kare, the group presents selected scenes from this ground breaking play.

Photograph: RNZ - Lisa Thompson

With support from Q Theatre

1hr including Q + A