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Scoop
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Scoop
How Does She Manage It? Fringe Festival Favourite Returns To Wellington
Fearless performer and maverick of the stage, Eliza Sanders, blew Wellingtonians away with her a revolutionary fusion of contemporary dance, cine-theatre, and quirky comedy at the New Zealand Fringe Festival in 2024. Now, after both national and international success, Manage Your Expectation returns for a very limited return season at Wellington's Circa Theatre from 16 -20 September 2025. Manage Your Expectations transforms contemporary performance through an ingenious combination of live cinema, whimsical humour, and profound physical storytelling. The work begins in the increasingly-popular style of comic performance lecture (think Hannah Gadsby's Nanette). Clownish antics and personal storytelling set up the work's second half which is brimming with evocative moments of moving image on stage and screen. Each vivid scene addresses a universal concept of human relationships: Partners, Children, Ancestors, Self and Death. ' This is Eliza's most sophisticated and nuanced piece of choreography and image-making. It's the most accessible piece of dance-led theatre we've made." says Allanah. The work has already garnered major recognition, taking home awards for Outstanding Solo Performance at NZ Fringe 2024 and Best Performer at Whangārei Fringe 2024, as well as seven award nominations in the same year, most notably Best In Fringe and Most Innovative Work (NZ Fringe) and Most Original Production at the Wellington Theatre Awards. Manage Your Expectations holds a lens up to live performance, through an ingenious combination of comedic storytelling, hypnotising live-feed cinematography, and profound movement. The simplicity of the setup - one solo performer, a camera, a screen and you, the audience - strikes awe and deep personal resonance with the audience. Movement, multimedia, and razor-sharp wit combine to examine the impossibility of perfect communication, musing on the influence of context, identity and personal history while creating something beautiful from our collective mess. Director Charley Allanah says 'It's about finding joy and humour in complexity, and in our endless inability to really understand ourselves and each other" Eliza is proud to bring this bold and deeply personal work back to Wellington as part of TAHI Festival of Solo Performance. The 10-day Festival returns this September to uplift, amplify and celebrate the powerful voices of Aotearoa New Zealand's storytellers. 'Audiences can expect to be joyously confused and then profoundly moved. I like to make people laugh in order to open up their hearts so they can cry' says Sanders. House of Sand and TAHI Festival presents: Manage Your Expectations WHEN: Tue 16 – Sat 20 Sept, 7:30pm | Sat 20 Sept, 2pm WHERE: Circa Theatre, 1 Taranaki Street Te Aro, Wellington
Yahoo
28-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
‘I'm Still Here's' Fernanda Torres to Star in ‘Os Corretores,' Which She Wrote, With Conspiraçao and Globo Filmes Producing (EXCLUSIVE)
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Brazil's Fernanda Torres, a Golden Globe winner and Oscar nominee for 'I'm Still Here,' will star in and has written the screenplay of 'Os Corretores,' a feature from Brazilian production powerhouse Conspiraçao that is scheduled to go into production by the end of this year. Andrucha Waddington ('House of Sand'), a partner at Conspiracao and Torres' husband, will helm the pic. Globo Filmes, the theatrical arm of Globo Group, will co-produce. More from Variety Spanish Mart-Meet Iberseries & Platino Industria Looks to Europe, Aims to Boost Spanish-Language International Distribution '3%' Producer Boutique Filmes Teams With Ukbar, Diego Freitas on 'Mistério do Cinco Estrellas' (EXCLUSIVE) RioFilme Wants to Find the 'Gagacabana of Audiovisual,' Is Currently in Talks to Attract Netflix's 'Boys From Brazil' and MipTV to Rio Manuel Belmar, Globo's director of digital products, will announce 'Os Corretores' during the company's panel today at Rio2C, Latin America's largest creativity event that unspools in Rio de Janeiro from May 27 to June 1. 'Os Corretores' is described as a real estate tragic comedy. The plot is centers on a couple of real estate agents. Torres play the female lead, and male leading role has yet to be cast. For her internationally acclaimed performance as Eunice Paiva in 'I'm Still Here,' Torres was the first Brazilian to receive a Golden Globe Award for best actress in a motion picture-drama, granted. She was also nominated this year for a best actress Academy Award. Torres is also a writer of newspaper columns and has published two novels. Her debut novel, 'The End,' sold over 200,000 copies in Brazil and was translated into seven languages and adapted into a 10-episode series. Torres wrote the screenplay of the series that bowed on streamer Globoplay in Oct. 2023. Torres' considerable writing career also takes in the plot for 'The Others,' one of streamer Globoplay's most successful original series to date. Waddington directed 'Me You Them,' selected for Sundance, Cannes, and Toronto. Starring Torres and mother Fernanda Montenegro and co-written and directed by Waddington, 'House of Sand,' a successful Sony Pictures Classics release in the U.S., won Sundance's Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Script and Alfred Sloan awards. Best of Variety 'Harry Potter' TV Show Cast Guide: Who's Who in Hogwarts? New Movies Out Now in Theaters: What to See This Week Emmy Predictions: Talk/Scripted Variety Series - The Variety Categories Are Still a Mess; Netflix, Dropout, and 'Hot Ones' Stir Up Buzz
