Relaxed performance of Manage Your Expectations
Date:
Thu 18 Sep 2025, 07:30 pm - 8:45pm
Venue:
Circa Theatre
1 Taranaki Street, Te Aro, Wellington
Wellington
Category:
Dance, Theatre, Multidisciplinary
Accessibility:
Wheelchair Access, Accessible Toilets
Cost:
$30-$60
Website or Reg:
Listed By:
House of Sand
Event Contact:
fayvandermeulen1@gmail.com
In Manage Your Expectations, solo performer Eliza Sanders has a simple task: to tell you everything that will happen in the show so you can decide if you would like to see it. There's a relaxed performance starting at 7.30pm on Thursday 18 September.
This genre-defying work of dance, theatre, live film, clown and absurd philosophising takes the idea of the "trigger warning" to its absurdist extreme to question how "informed" consent can really be, and asking "How much do you really want to know?'
Created and performed by multi-award-winning maverick of the stage, Eliza Sanders, Manage Your Expectations helps us to see the limits of the power to communicate and our failures to say what we mean. Through movement, multimedia and razor-sharp wit, it examines the impossibility of perfect communication, musing on the influence of context, identity and personal history while creating something beautiful from our collective mess.
"Clever, witty, evocative, subversive, immersive, despairing, poignant, personal and universal" — Deirdre Tarrant, Theatreview, 2024
"Beautifully vulnerable" - Chloe Jacques, Theatreview, 2024
Full of vigour, energy, chaos and a hint of confrontation, Manage Your Expectations is a mind (and body) bending show about how we connect in an increasingly complex world. And you decide the ending…
Content warning: this show contains explicit content, mild coarse language, heavy nudity, themes of abortion and rape.
WINNER:
Best Performer, Whangārei Fringe 2024; Outstanding Solo Performance, NZ Fringe 2024; San Diego Tour Ready, NZ Fringe 2024
NOMINATION:
Best in Fringe, NZ Fringe 2024; Most Innovative Work, NZ Fringe 2024; Sydney Tour Ready, NZ Fringe 2024; Auckland Tour Ready, NZ Fringe 2024; Melbourne Tour Ready, NZ Fringe 2024; Adelaide Tour Ready, NZ Fringe 2024; Most Original Production, Wellington Theatre Awards 2024
Presented by House of Sand in association with TAHI New Zealand Festival of Solo Performance.
