Manage Your Expectations

Dance Spoken Word Theatre

You decide the ending ...

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Presented by: House of Sand

From: Te Whanganui-a-Tara | Wellington

Manage Your Expectations takes the idea of the ‘trigger warning’ to its absurdist extreme, using humour to question how ‘informed’ consent can really be, and asking ‘How much do you really want to know?’

Created and performed by multi-award-winning maverick of the stage Eliza Sanders, Manage Your Expectations helps us to see the limits of the power to communicate and our failures to say what we mean. Through a unique blend of dance, theatre, live film, clown and absurd philosophising, performer and audience engage in a deeply imperfect exchange, musing on the influence of context, identity and personal history.

Full of vigour, energy, chaos and a hint of confrontation, Manage Your Expectations is a mind (and body) bending show.

"Clever, witty, evocative, subversive, immersive, despairing, poignant, personal and universal" — Deirdre Tarrant, Theatreview

Content warning: this show contains explicit content, mild coarse language, heavy nudity, themes of abortion and rape.

*Please note the Tuesday 18 March session that was previously advertised is no longer scheduled. Please come along on Wednesday 19 March.

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