In many regards, it's acts of perseverance, and timing, and luck, and the right person being there at the right time, and the right people being involved.
"It's so incredibly difficult to stage a play at-scale.
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He tells The Detail getting his play staged at a professional theatre, and co-produced by one of New Zealand's leading professional companies, the Auckland Theatre Company (ATC), was a serious coup. Scenes from a Yellow Peril is a genre-bending play exploring Asian identity, racism and privilege in New Zealand. "There was the Court Theatre, which I did enjoy going to every now and then, but I would never say I watched a show there and thought 'I could do that', or 'my play could be on that stage'." "Christchurch wasn't exactly known for its strong, independent and diverse theatre scene," says Joe. Raised in Christchurch, he says he never considered going into the theatre industry until living in the more metropolitan North Island cities of Wellington and Auckland. Today on The Detail, Sarah Robson looks at theatre's two-pronged struggle: to keep theatre relevant, as well as financially viable.Ĭhinese-Kiwi playwright Nathan Joe has just finished a triumphant season of his work Scenes from a Yellow Peril at the ASB Waterfront Theatre in Auckland. Getting people off their devices and into brick-and-mortar theatres is proving a huge challenge. On top of Covid woes, there's the infinite expanse of online content to compete with. And theatre has never really fully recovered a recent survey into the arts sector revealed that audience interest is still low, and workers are worried they won't make enough money to get by. Lockdowns and gathering restrictions left hundreds of shows cancelled, and thousands more workers in the arts without a source of income.
Theatre was never a big money-maker, but now more than ever, the industry is in dire straits. When was the last time you went out to the theatre?įor many, it's been a long time. Scenes from a Yellow Peril, performed at the ASB Waterfront Theatre in 2022.
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