Decide for yourself
Actor Hadleigh Walker doesn’t look very ok.
Inspired by American anti-consumerism mag - Adbusters – he’s directing a play that challenges our capitalist system.
It’s Everything is OK, a Bats Theatre 2010 Stab commission.
He doesn’t want to “get too political”, but says: “I want people to contemplate the issues that we’re dealing with here and ask: Does it work? Are there other ways of doing things? Is the best way to buy things at the lowest price and throw them away? It’s not about sticking with the status quo, particularly in our political environment.”
The play happens in a 600m² warehouse across from Te Papa. Like the play’s subject matter, the scale of the project is huge. On the right is a pile of old TVs. Scrunched up blocks – car wrecks – scatter the concrete. On the rusty table are wheel hubcaps in place of plates and the cutlery is a mish mash of things like soup ladles for spoons. Round the corner, four shipping containers are stacked on top of each other; symbolism for the isolation sometimes caused by living in apartment blocks, or online networking.
Perhaps Appierdo’s obsession with shipping containers started when he was a child – he’s creative director of the company Storybox that used 12 in an installation in Christchurch’s Cathedral Square – because he and his family immigrated to New Zealand with eight of them.
Everything is OK, 70 Cable Street, to November 20.
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