THE SCAPEGOAT REDEMPTION
University of Otago Bookshop, 378 Great King St, Dunedin
23/05/2019 - 25/05/2019
Production Details
Dunedin’s greatest and only fetish-drag-theatre-cabaret-fusion company is back with a bang for 2019.
As the escape room trend continues to sweep across the globe, we are jumping aboard only a year or two after the first buzzfeed article made them cool. Welcome to Scapegoat Escape Rooms, Dunedin’s newest and premiere escape experience, where the snakes are real and the doors are genuinely locked. It’s not a real escape otherwise.
Join Dirtier Harry, Staples, Twizel St Andrews and a motley collection of new characters as they find clues, find themselves, and make Lifelong New Friends™. Clothes will fly, secrets will be shared, lives will be changed forever.
“Gather round. Tenderly hold the person next to you. Tenderly hold yourself.” — Vixen Temple.
University Bookshop, 378 Great King Street
23–25 May. All shows 7pm, doors open 6:30
Contains nudity and sexual themes. R18.
Tickets available from buytickets.at/sacrilege
CAST
Rachael Cox: Staples
Ahinata Kaitai-Mullane: Lacrimosa 'Mo' Pierrot
Mac Veitch: Twizel St Andrews
Fabian Clarke: Amara Morningstar
Harry Biggs: Dirtier Harry
Caitlin Lester: Houdinette
Victoria Ransom: Vixen Temple
Jackson Treece: Miss Sadie Salome
CREW
Stage Manager: Rachel Wilson
Production Design: Jasper Ririnui
Costume: Shae Ramsey
Lighting and Sound: Samson Ruthven
Marketing Design: Kerry Lane
Produced by Jasper Ririnui and Kerry Lane
Proudly presented by Sacrilege Productions
Theatre , Cabaret ,
Grim and grimy meets slick and sexy in an explosion of laughter and fishnet tights
Review by Kate Timms-Dean 24th May 2019
In the dark days since the demise of the Dunedin’s Fortune Theatre, I’ve seen plays performed in all sorts of unlikely locations, but a storeroom above the University Book Shop is something else altogether. The ambience of the location is, in fact, the perfect backdrop for tonight’s entertainment, The Scapegoat Redemption.
Presented by Sacrilege Productions, which headlines as “Dunedin’s greatest and only fetish-drag-theatre-cabaret-fusion company”, this is a performance like no other, combining the holy grail of modern-day entertainment, the escape room, and layered with lashings of splendid characters, side-splitting laughter and sex.
Our cast of intrepid escapers are a stellar dollar mixture, never heretofore seen together in one place. From the dry boredom of Amara Morningstar (Fabian Clarke) to the erratic ecstasy of Dirtier Harry (Harry Biggs), every one is a shining faceted gem. Intriguing and entrancing, you just want to get closer, know more, hold them to your hearts.
There is so much inspiration and depth to these characters that the programme is brimming with hidden gems, such as the snippets of Twizel St Andrews’ (Mac Veitch) early life as a “deeply peculiar wallaby”. These are characters you love. Not only are they real, deep, 3-dimensional players, they are interesting, weird and slightly perverted. What’s not to love?
Our cast is rounded out by Staples (Rachael Cox), Houdinette (Caitlin Lester) and Vixen Temple (Vixen Temple). What more can I say – they were all amazing.
My only complaint is the R18 rating, which has led to me leave the teenagers at home for the night, much to their horror (as soon as I mentioned drag, fetish and cabaret in the same sentence, they were in!). However, on reflection, I feel this is unwarranted – I know my two would have loved it and laughed right along with me.
Grim and grimy meets slick and sexy in an explosion of laughter and fishnet tights. The Scapegoat Redemption is utterly fantabulous.
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