A Hardware Love Affair
Full Volume Theatre
Set in fictional small-town New Zealand, the story follows Maddie Phillips, a fiercely loyal Mitre 10 employee who goes undercover at rival hardware store, Bunnings Warehouse.
In this Mastertopyian world, once you turn 18 you must choose one hardware store to work at for the rest of your life. After all, “it’s the way it’s always been, you’re either orange or you’re green.”
But once behind enemy lines, Maddie discovers more than just price tags and sausage sizzles.
She finds herself falling in love, not just with a charming Bunnings staff member, but with the culture of the store itself.
For the first time, she questions the rigid world she’s grown up in, she starts to wonder why she has to choose at all. Why can’t a world of orange and a world of green live side by side in harmony? What follows is a high energy comedy inspired by Romeo and Juliet, and an homage to the vibrant history of musical theatre complete with a sausage sizzle, garden gnome gags, and an all-out musical dance battle in the shared store carpark.
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creative leads
Lizzie Bysouth: Production manager, Music director, Composer, Writer
Sophie Helm: Director, Writer, Photographer, Graphic designer
crew
Josie Eastwood: Stage Manager
Daniel Honey: Music director, Composer
Zalán Orbán: Publicity manager
Louise Jamieson: Choreographer
Sarah Paton Taylor: Sound design and operation
Louis Williamson-Nicholls: Prop design and construction
Sienna Potvin: Costume design and construction
Sean Brennan: Set design and construction
Tom Smith: Lighting design and operation
Ophelia Muller: Assistant production manager
Bennie Sneyd-Utting: Contracted sheet music transposer
cast
Bella Falconer: Maddie Philips
Cayla Louise: Lee Flathead
Nate Smyth: Brent Toolman
Daniel Harvey: Brenda Lawnmaster
Zalán Orbán: Gary McManagement
Jiseop Shin: Alan Quay
Violet Patterson: Makita Von Drill
