The
Antarctica Trilogy
‘Antarctica is a heartbeat. Once a year it doubles its size, and then retracts. One heartbeat every year, for millennia…’
HEAT
An extraordinary black comedy, HEAT is an original love story between a woman, a man and a penguin.
Heat explores the interface between science and the arts; by creating an installation of an Antarctic hut in a performance space. It is a world first completely off-the-grid, sustainably powered production within theatre venues, using only the
renewable sources of solar and wind energy. The play Heat, commissioned by Circa Theatre, had its world premiere at BATS Theatre as a STAB commission in 2008.
Ice Floe Productions completed a national tour of Heat to: The Fuel Festival, Hamilton, The Edge, Auckland, and the Otago Festival of the Arts, Dunedin and the Nelson Arts Festival, Nelson.
Heat performed a four week return season at Circa Theatre, Wellington in 2011.
Heat was nominated for two Chapman Tripp Awards in 2008, winning the coveted Actor of the Year for the role of Bob the penguin.
HOLE
In 1985 the world awoke to the discovery of the ozone hole over Antarctica. STELLA, a NZ scientist, JOHN (Ioane), a Navy SEAL from American Samoa and BONNY, a Greenpeace activist meet during one Antarctic summer. What unfolds will be dark, funny and as monumental as the discovery of the ozone hole itself.
Antarctica, sometime in the mid 1980’s… It’s a time of big hair, big make-up and ice-cold wine coolers. Its Wild West days at McMurdo Station and Scott Base on the Ross Island, Ross Dependency. It had been little more than a decade since the US Navy had lifted a ban on women travelling to Antarctica (1969) and Pamela Young from Nelson had become the first Kiwi woman to work on the ice. Meanwhile Greenpeace, rallying since 1979 to create the first ‘World Park’ in Antarctica, is protesting the commercial exploitation of oil and mineral deposits under the ice by prospecting governments and companies.
Antarctica, sometime in the mid 1980’s… It’s a time of big hair, big make-up and ice-cold wine coolers. Its Wild West days at McMurdo Station and Scott Base on the Ross Island, Ross Dependency. It had been little more than a decade since the US Navy had lifted a ban on women travelling to Antarctica (1969) and Pamela Young from Nelson had become the first Kiwi woman to work on the ice. Meanwhile Greenpeace, rallying since 1979 to create the first ‘World Park’ in Antarctica, is protesting the commercial exploitation of oil and mineral deposits under the ice by prospecting governments and companies.
2021 SEASON OF HOLE
CAST
BONNY — Greenpeace Activist:
Stevie Hancox-Monk
IOANE — Navy SEAL: Sepelini Mua’au
STELLA — Atmospheric Scientist: Elle Wootton
VOICE OVERS: Daniel Nodder
CREW
WRITER/EXECUTIVE–PRODUCER:
Lynda Chanwai-Earle
DIRECTORS: Kerryn Palmer & Sally Richards
COMPOSER: Gareth Farr (ONZM)
SOUND DESIGN: Phil Brownlee
LIGHTING DESIGN: Isadora Lao
AUDIO VISUAL DESIGN: Rachel Neser
SET DESIGN COLLABORATION: Jason O’Hara,
Kerryn Palmer & Sally Richards
VIDEOGRAPHER: Daniel Nodder
GRAPHIC DESIGN: Poppy Serano
ECO-POWER DESIGN/INSTALL: Graeme Ebbett/
Ebbett Automation
INTIMACY DIRECTOR: Tandi Wright
DRAMATURG: Kate Prior
SCRIPT CONSULTANT: Victor Roger
PRODUCTION TEAM
PRODUCERS: Lynda Chanwai-Earle & Jo Marsh
STAGE MANAGERS: Tyler Clarke & Daniel Nodder
PRODUCTION MANAGERS: Jo Marsh &
Lynda Chanwai-Earle
PUBLICIST: Jo Marsh
TECHNICAL OPERATOR: Bekky Boyce
BOX OFFICE MANAGER: Fay Van Der Meulen
HEART
Something happened to the world after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, indeed, after intensified nuclear technology testing from 1955 to 1963.
HEART is set in Antarctica around 1957/8 in the lead-up to the Trans Antarctic Expedition, and up to the early sixties after intensified nuclear testing made it possible for the first time in history, to mark with carbon dating tests the tissue of every living creature on earth. HEART will explore the emotional and physical terrain of some of the New Zealanders living on the ice during the 1950’s, coming out of the Heroic era of exploration over a century ago. The first ice core samples were being taken, research recognised that bubbles trapped in deep ice cores recorded atmospheric composition from millennium past. Research linked CO2 and global temperature, and ultimately rising CO2 levels caused by the burning of fossil fuels. Alongside environmental, in today’s current climate where gender inequality is being challenged by the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements, HEART would also challenge the status quo with an all-male story being performed by an all-female cast.
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New Zealand
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New Zealand
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Videography by Daniel Nodder
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Videography by Daniel Nodder
Website Design by Anastasia Burn
© 2002–2024 Ice Floe Productions Ltd | All rights reserved