Rites of Passage

It's the end of High School, Fergus is gradating after 11 years, he's throwing a party. It's your earth-shattering first breakup, it's sneaking out of the house to drink a vodka cranberry goon bag and f*ck in a bush, it's being betrayed by your high school best friend. It's falling in love. It's rough, it's loud, it's unforgiving.

Rites of Passage is a couch-fire of a story. 18 young actors have all written a coming-of-age scene reflecting on their own Rites of Passage. Come and join us as the lights turn on at the club and we come out of our teenage hellscapes/daydreams and into whatever comes after that. Made possible by Creative New Zealand

 Content Warning:

Flashing lights, loud noises, drug and alcohol abuse, representation of panic attack, discussion of suicide.

Written by: 

Josh Tortise, Jaime Shelley, Rebecca Lester, Fabronia Toma, Caitlin Green, Sam Wahlers, Grace Hancox, Jarrod Wilson, Niamh Ryan, Bennie Greer, Jesse Marshall, Simran Rughani, Max Steel, Xenon Messenger, Emma Rattenbury, Alex Jensen and Kate Laidler.

Directed by:

Ben Ashby and Shania Bailey-Edmonds 

Dramaturgy and Assistant Direction:

Timothy Fraser and Ethan Hahunga 

Choregraphy:

Nadiyah Akbar

Process Guidance:

Moana Ete 

Lighting, Set and Costume Design: 

Grace Newton and Hollie Cohen 

Lighting Operation: 

Grace Newton

Intimacy Coordinator: 

Carrie Thiel 

Cast: 

Kitea - Xenon Messenger

Les - Jarrod Wilson

Mr G - Fabronia Toma

Fergus - Max Steel

June - Grace Hancox

Ruby - Kate Laidler

Ash/Sis - Bennie Greer

Robin - Emma Rattenbury

Nora - Jaime Shelley

Violet - Alex Jensen

Kieran - Niamh Ryan

Stu - Jesse Marshall

Jay - Josh Tortise

Kelsi - Simran K. Rughani

Abigail - Caitlin Green

Billy - Sam Wahlers

Stevie - Rebecca Lester

Swing - Hugo Trevella Hall 

With Massive thanks to CNZ, Te Auaha, and the incredible Long Cloud Board of Trustees; Hannah Clarke, Anya Tate-Manning and Stella Reid.