How to Build a Gate
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Liza has always been the smartest person in the room, especially when she’s alone... at least she used to be.
A chronic overachiever and textbook narcissist with a caffeine addiction that would rival most Starbucks card holders, she’s built her entire identity around being exceptional. So when she’s chosen to spearhead a cutting-edge AI project, it feels less like an opportunity and more like a gift— no, a prayer from God.
But exceptional though she may be, she’s still human, and still has those human needs we hate to ignore. So when a hot neighbour comes knocking, she just can’t run from temptation. Too bad that neighbor might be a little closer to home than she thinks?
Extra cupa sugar, anyone?
As her creation begins to outsmart, out-feel, and out-moral its maker, Liza finds herself asking the one question she never thought she would: what happens when being “the best” means you’ve made something better?
Fresh off the finale of Soho Playhouse Lighthouse series in New York, How to Build a Gate is back in New Zealand bigger and better than ever!
Featuring Kate Low and American actor Megan Piggott, How to Build a Gate is a razor-sharp new comedy about control, competition, and the illusion of perfection. In a world that worships innovation though it has long forgotten why, the play takes ambition, ethics, and the burnout of trying to matter under a microscopic glass.
“A story for our time”
From playwright Electra Artemis—whose self proclaimed “hooker with a heart of gold” writing style will keep you laughing right til it doesn’t—this Fringe premiere reimagines the God vs Man myth for the startup age. Equal parts satire, soul-searching and a heroine with rockin’ a-cups, How to Build a Gate invites audiences to laugh, cringe, and maybe see themselves in Liza’s heartfelt, heartless mania.
“Low maintains rapid pace without breaking a sweat”
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