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The Arrival's Sydney Festival season was a hit!

Our sold out Hong Kong Festival season played to standing ovations

Dont miss us at The NZ International Arts Festival - this Thurs to Sunday, tickets selling fast!

 

RED LEAP THEATRE

enchanting tale of heartening optimism
Nick Smythe - Theatreview on The Arrival

enchanting tale of heartening optimism
Nick Smythe - Theatreview on The Arrival
It's always refreshing and often exciting to see ideas played with as freely as this.
Nik Smythe - Theatreview on Beyond The Blue
...an appropriately operatic story of fabulous dimensions
NZ Herald on The Butcher's Daughter
ingenious theatrical solutions that continually surprise and satisfy
Nick Smythe - Theatreview on The Arrival
picture book perfection
Janet McAllister - NZ Herald on The Arrival
a marvellous clarity to the storytelling.
Frances Edmond - NZ Listener on Beyond The Blue
restlessly creative... endlessly inventive
Paul Bushnell - Radio New Zealand on The Arrival
The Butcher's Daughter takes us back to theatre's raffish origins.
Sunday Star Times on The Butcher's Daughter
world class - one of the best examples of its kind you'll ever see.
Janet McAllister - NZ Herald on The Arrival
a remarkable feat of imaginative confidence
Simon Wilson - Metro Daily on The Arrival
Storytelling invites us to walk in another's shoes for a while, but also contemplate our own shoes.
Shaun Tan, author of The Arrival
it's one of the most repeatable and successful commissioned works I have ever seen at a New Zealand festival
Paul Bushnell - Radio New Zealand on The Arrival
incredibly faithful to the images in the book
Paul Bushnell - Radio New Zealand on The Arrival
we are transported by suspension of disbelief made easy by the engaging play under the skilful direction of physical theatre veterans Kate Parker and Julie Nolan.
Nik Smythe - Theatreview on Beyond The Blue
...the result is the most charming production to grace Auckland stages for some time
Sunday Star Times on The Butcher's Daughter
infectious, captivating and full of wonder. It takes you beyond yourself, beyond the blue
Frances Edmond - NZ Listener on Beyond The Blue
an original, frequently abstract concoction of pure theatre.
Nik Smythe - Theatreview on Beyond The Blue
The Butcher's Daughter - Best New Play, Auckland 2004 as judged by Metro Magazine
a delightful parade of innovations
Renee Liang - Lumiere Reader on The Arrival
...singing and dancing and much flying through the air and an enormously confident pervasive use of avant-garde puppetry and shadow play
NZ Herald on The Butcher's Daughter
...a nod to medieval troupes and Asian shadow play
Sunday Star Times on The Butcher's Daughter
theatre to stir the soul and make the spirit fly.
Frances Edmond - NZ Listener on Beyond The Blue
Almost a fairytale, it is exceptionally adept physical theatre, but there's much more to it than that...
NZ Herald on The Butcher's Daughter
a piece of magic which explores the immigrant experience with humour, pathos, understanding and real depth.
Renee Liang - Lumiere Reader on The Arrival
a work that transcends the NZ world view... to become truly universal... they deserve a standing ovation.
Renee Liang - Lumiere Reader on The Arrival
...a fairytale jungle gym inhabited by puppets, shadow figures and characters that could have stepped out of an Emir Kusturica movie.
Sunday Star Times on The Butcher's Daughter
warm, inventive, real-object performance that only theatre can offer.
Janet McAllister - NZ Herald on The Arrival
grand, expansive, enchanting, hypnotic spectacle
Nick Smythe - Theatreview on The Arrival
Creativity develops the capacity to imagine the world differently
The Arts Council of England
a triumphant masterpiece in terms of visual style... world class.
Nick Smythe - Theatreview on The Arrival
I remember travelling, all the time travelling. We were like a river flowing to the sea - only we had no sea to go to. We were just water...
Old Emillian, character from The Butcher's Daughter
held its audience in a state of rapture and curiosity.
Janet McAllister - NZ Herald on The Arrival
Julie Nolan and Kate Parker project an infectious sense of utter enjoyment
Susan Budd - NZ Herald on Moa Hunting