Manage Your Expections
Part dance theatre, part live improvisation, part performative lecture. Created and performed by Eliza Sanders, Manage Your Expectations takes the idea of the ‘trigger warning’ to its absurdist extreme, using humour to question how ‘informed’ consent can really be. It asks the audience ‘how much do you really want to know?’
Created and performed by Eliza Sanders, Manage Your Expectations helps us to see the limits of the power to communicate, and our failures to say what we mean.
Through a unique blend of dance, clown and absurd philosophising, performer and audience engage in a deeply imperfect exchange, musing on the influence of context, identity and personal history.
★★★★★
“a joyful interpretation of our struggle to be the best we can be.”
— The Clothesline
★★★★
“Raw, confronting, yet deeply relatable...leaves you spellbound”
— Mindshare
Credits
Created and performed by Eliza Sanders
Directed by Charley Allanah
Awards
WINNER
Outstanding Solo Performance, NZ Fringe Festival
San Diego Tour Ready Award, NZ Fringe Festival
Standout Individual Performer, Whangārei Fringe Festival
NOMINATED
Most Original Production, Wellington Theatre Awards
Best in Fringe, NZ Fringe Festival
Most Innovative Work, NZ Fringe Festival
Auckland Fringe Tour Ready Award, NZ Fringe Festival
Adelaide Fringe Tour Ready Award, NZ Fringe Festival
Melbourne Fringe Tour Ready Award, NZ Fringe Festival
Sydney Fringe Tour Ready Award, NZ Fringe Festival