Heavy Metal is a molten feminist baptism and a romantic celebration of utopic potential within material change. Drawing on the labor, weight, and unpredictability of metal casting, Heavy Metal transforms the theatre into an alchemists laboratory, a metal foundry and a space for the sublime.

Chasing the charged moments when everything glows molten and unstable and full of infinite possibilities, becoming gold and revealing portals in the molten in-between.

Heavy Metal is not a finished thing but a becoming.

Performance Times

Sat 25 Oct, 7-8pm
Sun 26 Oct, 5-6pm (Auslan interpreted)

Creative team

Lead Artist, Julia Croft

Director / Creator, Nisha Madhan

Performance Designer / Creator, Emily Parsons-Lord

Lighting Designer, Calvin Hudson

Production Management, Hannah Moore Commissioned by Performance Space for Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art 2025 and presented by Performance Space. Supported by the Playking Foundation.

Original development supported by Creative New Zealand.

Photography by Sarah Walker