Experimental theatre New York style comes to the New Zealand Festival courtesy of Elevator Repair Service.
Founder and artistic director John Collins started the company after an aptitude test highlighted his engineering skills.
The Select (The Sun Also Rises) Photo: Supplied
The company has been going for 27 years and one of its most successful shows The Select (The Sun Also Rises) is on in Wellington as part of the New Zealand Festival
It's an adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s first novel given a contemporary setting in one of his favourite places: a bar called The Select.
His decadent life style is brought to the stage in a riotous orgy of music, dancing and a word-for-word delivery of Hemingway’s original text.