The PlayGround's ALL YOUR WANTS AND NEEDS FULFILLED FOREVER Begins at VAULT Festival

After acclaimed seasons in New York and New Zealand, award-winning theatre company The PlayGround Collective come to the UK for the very first time with ALL YOUR WANTS AND NEEDS FULFILLED FOREVER. This existential comedy dissects the stories we tell ourselves as we try to create meaning out of chaos.

The production plays the Vault Festival, The Vaults, Leake Street, London SE1 7NN from today 2nd March - Sunday 6th March 2016. Press Night: Wednesday 2nd March, 8.30pm.

Simon successfully distracts himself from the recent death of his father with sex, video games and his three pet rats until a fracture in the fourth wall reveals his world might not be all that it seems to be.

Action, intrigue, love and danger - all will play out in the right order. He will suffer. He will overcome. The Solution will be revealed... Playful with a retro video-game aesthetic, the story speaks, in a theatrically innovative way, to people's life experiences. This poetic semi- autobiographical reflection on grief subverts playwriting as we know it.

The PlayGround Collective is a New Zealand theatre company dedicated to developing innovative and imaginative theatre based on good storytelling. Since forming in 2007, they have produced nine shows which have won nine Chapman Tripp Awards, they were highly commended in Metro Magazine (2010), and have won five Auckland Theatre Awards (including the Hackman Cup for Most Original Production and the Judge's Award for Overall Excellence). Auckland Theatre Awards commented, All Your Wants and Needs has great claim to fame as a heartfelt, emotionally charged piece of theatre... produced with a fearless commitment to taking risks, both theatrical and thematic, it did nothing less than reinvent the possibilities of theatre.

IF YOU GO:

ALL YOUR WANTS AND NEEDS FULFILLED FOREVER

Wednesday 2nd - Sunday 6th March, 8.30pm
Running time: 90 minutes
Ages 16+

VAULT Festival, The Vaults, Leake Street, London SE1 7NN

The Vaults are located underneath Waterloo station (on the Northern, Bakerloo and Jubilee lines). Leave Waterloo Station via Exit 1. Turn right onto Station Road Approach and keep on the right hand side of the road. Walk all the way to the bottom of the road and go down the first set of stairs you come to and turn right at the bottom of the stairs. The entrance to the VAULT Festival is 10 meters down the graffiti tunnel on the right hand side.

Tickets are available priced £16 from www.vaultfestival.com.

The PlayGround Collective is a New Zealand theatre company dedicated to developing innovative and imaginative theatre based on good storytelling. The founders and core creative's are Eli Kent (Arts Foundation New Generation Artist, Bruce Mason Award Winner), Eleanor Bishop (Chapman Tripp Award Most Promising New Director 2009) and Robin Kerr (Master of Theatre Arts graduate from Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School).

Since forming in 2007, they have produced nine shows including The Hunting of Snark (BATS, 2007), Eli Kent's Rubber Turkey (BATS and Auckland's The Basement 2008, Most Outstanding New Playwright at the 2008 Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards), A Brief History of Helen of Troy by Mark Schultz (BATS 2009), The Intricate Art of Actually Caring by Eli Kent (NZ Fringe 2009 and national tour), Bedlam (Toi Whakaari 2009), Katydid by Lucy O'Brien (BATS 2010), Tinderbox (STAB Commission 2011), Like There's No Tomorrow (Auckland Theatre Company 2013, Festival of Colour 2015) and ALL YOUR WANTS AND NEEDS FULFILLED FOREVER (BATS 2014, NZ New Performance Festival New York 2015, Q Presents 2015).

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