Terror Highway
05/08/2014 - 09/08/2014
Production Details
“What Does The Soul Of A One-Eyed Hillbilly Buy You In Hell?” – DYNAMOTION, New Zealand’s foremost colour-coordinated comedy-dance troupe, will find out in their final instalment of their terror trilogy; Terror Highway, playing The Basement Theatre from August 5th.
They fought sharks in Terror Island, robots in Terror Planet and now the Terror Trilogy concludes on the highway to hell.
In a town so small where the only thing to do is your cousin, three sassy waitresses are wrongly convicted of mass murder. They bust out of jail to clear their name and avenge the death of local heart-throb, Chris. The road to vengeance is lined with broken down chevies, sadistic gator farmers, hell-bound hillbillies and a dance-off with The Devil himself.
In their Terror Trilogy, Dynamotion mix dance and comedy with blood-soaked stories and slick moves. They are led by co-creators Thomas Sainsbury and Lara Fischel-Chisholm.
Sainsbury is well known as a playwright, most recently for Silo’s Sunday Roast, and writer of the television series Super City. Fischel-Chisholm choreographed and directed the sell-out show Swan Song for The Wet Hot Beauties. Her next role is Movement Director for Auckland Theatre Company’s Jesus Christ Superstar. On the company she says, “Dynamotion is part theatre, part dance, and all in-your-face, toe-tapping, dark-comedy joy. There’s an infectious kind of silliness that emanates from the ‘dactors’ (dancing actors) that is matched by precision timing and an all-or-nothing attitude. This is silly, sassy, choreographed fun.”
Making his Dynamotion dacting debut is hot young comic Chris Parker (Girls Vs Boys, SNORT, Tighty Whiteys). Dacting with Chris and Lara are Dynamotion regulars: Kate Simmonds, Karamia Muller, Roberto Nascimento, Perlina Lau, Elizabeth McMenamin, Kermath Davies, Dan Veint & Marion Prebble.
“A real winner” Raewyn Whyte, Theatreview
Dynamotion’s TERROR HIGHWAY plays
Dates: 5th – 9th August 2014, 8pm
Venue: The Basement Theatre, Lower Greys Avenue, Auckland CBD
Tickets: $25 and under (concessions and group prices available) booking fees may apply
Bookings: www.basementtheatre.co.nz or www.iticket.co.nz
For more information contact:
Kate Simmonds Elephant Publicity kate@elephantpublicity.co.nz +64 9 368 4180
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Musical , Dance-theatre , Comedy ,
1 hour
Spunky, booty-shaking misfits – ‘dacting’
Review by Kathryn van Beek 06th Aug 2014
I’m not sure what I just watched, but it’s only playing at the Basement Theatre until this Saturday so if you fancy laughing your arse off this week you’d better get yourself a ticket.
The show is apparently the third in a trilogy, but no familiarity with Terror Island or Terror Planet is required to enjoy the hijinks of Terror Highway.
The previous shows included shark fights and robot fights, but we’ve really hit jackpot here with a hillbilly fight scene that pits three disenfranchised diner dolls against Siamese twins, a man / horse hybrid and an army of cousins.
The ten performers are at the leading edge of new artform ‘dacting’, which is the seamless fusion of the dramatic arts with interpretive dance. The dactors bill themselves as New Zealand’s foremost colour-coordinated comedy dance troupe, and they are indeed deserving of this high praise.
So what is it? I’m still not sure, but it follows the story of a woman out to avenge her boyfriend’s murder, and tells it with happy road cones, hungry crocodiles and sinister cacti. It doesn’t let death stop it in its tracks, and the story continues even in the fiery depths of Hades (confirming that Hell is indeed a dance party).
With a soundtrack of retro and modern dance classics and a cast of spunky, booty-shaking misfits, the show will have you laughing in the aisles and dancing out the door.
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Comments
John Smythe August 6th, 2014
Can someone tell me, please, how to pronounce ‘dactor’ and ‘dacting’. Is the ‘a’ from act or dance? I like to think the latter: they are dahctors, dahcting. Am I right?