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Welcome to Rat Chats, where we have a chill convo with the artists behind upcoming performing arts works. Today we sit down with Jess Karamjeet (Redundant), Jazmine Rose Phillips (Their Feet Did Not Touch The Ground), and Olivia Hall & Carrie Rudzinski (The Bitching Hour). With performances that are centred on representing complex identities and stories, we have an invigorating chat about the ethics of representation, the rise of performance poetry, and creating works that get under your skin. 
This podcast is hosted by Jennifer Cheuk (Rat World Magazine), with support from Basement Theatre, and is recorded at MoveSpace.
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Welcome to the first episode of Rat Chats, where we have a chill convo with the artists behind upcoming performing arts works.

Today we sit down with Rhiannon McCall (The Good, The Bad, and The Completely Made Up), Jane Wills (Castaway Airlines), and Tamara Gussy (Tea for Two World Tour), who are all working on improvised and interactive performances - ranging from a one-woman Western, to an interactive dating experience, to an immersive airline flight! We chat about creative processes, workshopping improv theatre, and I get to ask something I’ve always wondered: What do you do when no one laughs in a comedy show? 
This podcast is hosted by Jennifer Cheuk (Rat World Magazine), with support from Basement Theatre, and is recorded at MoveSpace.
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Last year, we were so stoked to have Silo Theatre at Basement Theatre presenting seven methods of killing kylie jenner by Jasmine Lee-Jones. They partnered up with Black Creatives Aotearoa, who happened to be Basement's Company in Residence, and together they put on a panel discussion one Sunday before the performance. It was a meeting of powerful hearts and minds and it was truly a historic piece of theatre. - Nisha Madhan, Basement's programmer

Once in a Black Moon panel
Keagan Carr Fransch
Michelle Masoll
Adorate Mizero
Vira Paky - Facilitator and Moderator
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As part of the Tautai 2021 Fale-ship Residency, we present the Tautai 2021 Fale-ship Podcast hosted by Amanda Wilson, talking to artists from the programme about their residency, their artistic practices and their lives.
The second episode is with Teremoana Rapley, an iconic figure in the entertainment industry, expressing her thoughts and feelings through music and lyrics, vibrations and frequencies.  See Teremoana's Tautai Fale-Ship Home Residency here and here.
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As part of the Tautai 2021 Fale-ship Residency, we present the Tautai 2021 Fale-ship Podcast hosted by Amanda Wilson, talking to artists from the programme about their residency, their artistic practices and their lives.

The first episode is with multi-disciplinary storyteller Marina Alefosio who uses poetry, performance, short stories and rap as her vessel. See Marina's Tautai Fale-Ship Home Residency here and here.
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EPISODE 9: In Patralekhika Productions' play The Kamasutra Chronicles, writer Shriya Bhagwat explores the ups and downs of marriage whilst tackling the taboo topic of sex in the South Asian community. In this episode, guest host Nathan Joe chats to cast members Gemishka Chetty and Dev Sherman about bringing Shriya's play to life, and their thoughts on Kamasutra, sex as a taboo subject, and why the play is important to experience.

Disruptors is a podcast series where creatives in Aotearoa talk about how they disrupt with their art. Produced by Basement Theatre with support from Re: News. 
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