Almost Sober (2018)

Written by Ben Wilson
Directed by Keegan Bragg
Performed by Ben Wilson, Brit O’Rourke, James Weaver, James Russell, Kelsey Robson, Adam Herbert, Matthew Staijen-Leach, Charlotte Simpson, Emma Katene, Sean Millward, Ethan Morse, Mark Whittet, Nick Rowell

Lighting Design & Operation by Jesper Tjarnfors
Sound Design by Ben Wilson

Dates July 24 - 4 August
Venue Club 121 Cuba Street, Wellington (NZ)

“Get an Uber, drive through Courtenay place sober and it’s like being on safari.”

Its past twelve am. Brian is looking for his jacket. Cass turned eighteen today and is experiencing Wellington town for the first time. The drug dealer Darion wants to fight Colin Wakefield; nobody’s told Colin. The bartender is at their wits end, three yo-pros want to kill their flat mates, and that boy in his room can't help playing Fortnite. 

Over the course of one night, in Wellington town, thirteen people cross paths as they go from tipsy, to drunk, to almost sober. Characters and moments interlink as they dance, laugh, fight and cry; building a mosaic of a city and the young people it makes and breaks in the early hours of the morning. 

“I love this place man. I can tell you that without any hesitation. It’s the most social, isolating, young at heart place in the world.”

Rehearsal Photography by Rachel Wilson.

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