afterburner (theatre production company)

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afterburner is a New Zealand-based collective of theatre professionals working with light and sound. The company was founded by in 2001, and specialises in productions hybridising installation and theatre performance.^[1][2]

Selected productions[]

Productions include:

• Man on the Moon (2001)
• line:near (2001)
• The Telescope (2002)
• crossing the concourse (2004)
• Fog and Mirrors (2005).^[1]
• Radiolight (2005)
• Pathlight (2006)
• The Singularity (2008) was written and directed by , and co-designed by Martyn Roberts and Rob Larsen.^[1]
• The 2017 production Dark Matter won two Dunedin Fringe Festival awards in 2016, and Best of Fringe 2017 in the New Zealand Fringe Festival in Wellington.^[3] Dark Matter was also featured in the 2018 Dunedin Arts Festival and at the 2019 Prague Quadrennial as a virtual reality exhibit.^[1]
• Last resort cafe at the Allen Hall Theatre.

At the time of the 2019 production Fission the team of 19 theatre professionals held 19 awards between them.^[3] Fission was performed over five nights in March 2019 at the Allen Hall Theatre, telling the story of Lise Meitner, who discovered nuclear fission but was overlooked for a Nobel Prize despite being nominated 48 times.^[3][4]

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