If you like your theatre straightforward, 2 Dimensional Life of Her is not for you. But if you have a healthy imagination and a childlike enthusiasm for new ideas, see Fleur Elise Noble's remarkable performance.
It's a fringe-styled foray into multiple projection, film, sound, animation, puppetry and drawing, initially confined to two dimensions and then explored in three.
Life of Her, billed as family friendly, works on multiple levels. Kids accept immediately that this is the kind of fantasy world they understand. They do not need a defined storyline because they can create one for themselves.
Adults can struggle to make sense of what they see, try to work out how it is done, and then worry about what it might mean.
Life of Her is fun, illusionary, quirky, scary, highly original and technically accomplished in a rough-as-guts presentation.
It's a surreal out-of-mind experience that should keep you thinking for days. Recommended for those who like a challenge.
Site-Specific Theatre's Hotel is another unusual show, performed in a real suite before an audience of 20, which is enough when you add five larger than life actors.
Just as hotels see only certain facets of their occupants, our view is limited to what the characters reveal to us in the time they have the room.
We get voyeuristic glimpses of the lives of couples and singles on business and pleasure, doing many of the things we all do in hotel rooms, and some we have probably never considered.
The result is powerful, moving drama with a strong theme of melancholy, supported by a soundtrack of Kiwi music.
Hotel is layered, skilfully acted, tightly directed and intrusively intimate, and well deserves an intelligent audience.
