Two bananas wake up duct-taped to the wall of a prestigious art gallery and meet their maker. An audience, two bananas, four artists, (three actors). Will anyone get paid?
Birthed from the burnt-out brains of Katie Burson and Georgie Llewellyn, How to Art is a physical theatre-clown-fruit mash-up about making art, surviving, and chasing mass a-peel. Jesters, collectors, and narcissists reign in this low-brow exploration of the cost of creativity and the art of living.
In an industry that values youth, perfection and mass production, can two bruised bananas go the distance? Dripping in desperation, can they find their place before they’re put up for sale?
Find out how starving these artists truly are.
Watch out, Picasso.
How to Art is the debut production from Ratbags, a new collaborative hothouse for multidisciplinary performance-making in Tāmaki Makaurau, led by Katie Burson. How to Art has been in development for the past year, supported by artistic residencies with Wellesley Studios, Capital E, TAPAC, and the Creative Communities Scheme.
With production design by Dan Collings, Tse-Yu Lin, and Rob Byrne, sound composition by Lucas Haugh, production by Charlie Underhill, and performances by Katie Burson, Georgie Llewellyn, and Bronwyn Ensor.https://basementtheatre.co.nz/whats-on/how-to-art
