Six Degrees Festival

Six Degrees Festival 2022

Six Degrees celebrates seven dynamic and engaging theatre, movement, or podcast events created by twelve Master's students from VUW's Master of Fine Arts in Creative Practice.   Whether fun, quirky, serious, or thought-provoking, there's entertainment guaranteed for all ages as newly devised, adapted, or published works showcase the learning and achievements of students on the 2021 MFA programme.

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See any three shows for $45, what a score!

A light purple background with a dark purple stone archway that has green vines wrapping around frame the image. In the middle a light purple hand holds a dark purple hand both with green fingernails. Flowers bloom from their cupped hands

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The Princess and the Knight

25 - 29 JANUARY

With trouble lurking around every corner, how will Princess Ada and Prince Lysander ever have the wedding of their dreams?!

When a mysterious knight appears, Ada begins to question everything she knows about true love...

A blue round circular creature walks through a yellow high rise city holding a yellow bag. The creature has broken one of the high-rises in half and holds it in their other hand as if to eat it.

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Paper Jam

25 - 29 JANUARY

Sal is stuck in a rut. A boring cycle of get up, go to work, go home, go to sleep. Up, work, home, sleep. Upworkhomesleepupworkhomesleep. Her job is an endless sea of pointless data entry and double handling. Every day the same. Every day adulting. Every. Day. D U L L.

Until her thought-to-be-long-gone childhood friend, Biscuit, shows up out of the blue.

Abstract image of various body parts including arms and legs in various shades of pink and red with blue fingernails on a blue background.

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You'd Look So Pretty If

25 - 29 JANUARY

You’d look so pretty if you smiled, or you wore makeup. If you showed off your legs, or you just made more of a damn effort. Sounds familiar, doesn't it? This is a provocative, horrific, comedic and contemporary performance, that will leave you feeling contemplative, and ready to scream.

Pop art style red headphones on purple background and purple headphones on a red background - with yellow sound waves going from ear to ear.

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Listen to This: Live Podcasts

27 JANUARY - 5 FEBRUARY

Six live podcast shows! Each night a different show! Live music! Lots of Cables! We'll be having a cozy time of it in the Studio at BATS with a whole heaping of good vibes and audio goodness! Can’t make it in person? Catch us on the livestream!

A dark figure with a VR headset on is surrounded by abstract purple mountains, sky, rainbow and snowflakes.

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Ugly Lies the Bone

1 - 5 FEBRUARY

War trauma defines returning soldier Jess's life. To escape her pain, she begins experimental virtual reality therapy where she builds a breathtaking world and slowly repairs wounds past and present as she heal her relationships, her life and herself.

A golden yellow bird cage with a dark green bird looking at the wall that has images of green birds in golden frames.

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Trifles

1 - 5 FEBRUARY

Heartbreaker Productions present an adapted version of Susan’s Glaspell’s one act play 'Trifles', a dark comedy set in Kaitangata putting women at the centre of the true crime genre.

A violent crime has occurred in the house of John and Sharon Wright, and Sharon is the main suspect.