selene
by Wright&Grainger | Performed by Megan Drury
A story about the goddess and the dark side of the moon.
A young girl is watching the moon landings on repeat, entranced by those astronaut’s weightlessness. A bunch of teenagers are swimming under a lunar eclipse, lost in what might happen next. A mis-matched couple are watching a horror film at a drive in cinema, about to step into all the next stuff.
SELENE is a radical explosion of an ancient myth. It’s about how we grow up defined by our bodies. It’s about the light sides of us and the dark sides of us. And it’s about the stuff inside us. All the wild stuff inside of us.
A new sibling show to the hugely acclaimed HELIOS, the UK's "masters of storytelling" (ThreeWeeks) Wright&Grainger return to Aotearoa with SELENE - an intimate theatre experience with cinematic score and striking storytelling.
Told by and made with Megan Drury.
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“Holds us in a space of emotional tension between the domestic and the epic, the quotidian and the cosmic … deeply affecting, funny, and heartbreaking.”
Creative team
Written and created by Alexander Wright & Phil Clive Grainger.
Made with and told by Megan Drury.
A Wright&Grainger and Theatre41 Co-Production.
NZ tour produced by Eleanor Strathern, A Mulled Whine.
ABOUT About Wright&Grainger
WRIGHT&GRAINGER are two storytellers and musicians based in rural North Yorkshire in the UK. They weave worlds from music and spoken word. Since 2016 their wild retellings of Ancient Greek myths have taken them around the world, touring across the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Bali, India, Europe and transferring work to New York.
About Megan Drury
Megan is an actor, dramaturg, and director, currently based between Australia and the UK, but has been on a world tour for months now. Their extensive theatre performance credits include roles in productions of Benefactors,The Gods The Gods The Gods, Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Ruben Guthrie, Swallow and many more. Meg has also worked as a Co-Director, Assistant Director, Creative Associate, and Dramaturg for various theatrical productions including Australia's first and longest-running large-scale immersive theatre show, AMidnight Visit. Screen performances include feature films, television series, and short films, earning various awards nominations and accolades.
Alongside touring SELENE across New Zealand and Australia in 2026 Meg has also been touring globally with circus company Gravity & Other Myths with their production The Mirror.
reviews
- ‘SELENE is joyous, funny, heartfelt and life-affirming’ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ - FringeFeed
- ‘Selene explores longing, resilience, identity, self-acceptance and the illumination one experiences with that. It feels both ancient and immediate, familiar and freshly imagined.’ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ - The Barefoot Review
- ‘A very special moment indeed’ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ - The List
