Before We Begin
Schedule
Tue, 25 Feb, 2025 at 06:30 pm to Sat, 01 Mar, 2025 at 07:30 pm
UTC+13:00Location
Basement Theatre | Auckland, AU
Before We Begin asks for permission.It waits until you are ready.
It hopes you’ll like it.
Through a series of escalating invitations for performer and audience, Before We Begin offers an intimate encounter with queer dating and gay hookup culture.
It’s joyful and awkward, playful and uncomfortable — it’s a performance about permission, patience, and the vulnerable act of trying to do better.
It’s a live date.
It’s a conversation.
It’s sexy decision making with strangers.
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Before We Begin is a new work by Hamish Annan. With dramaturgy by Dan Goodwin, production design by Rae Jocelyn, production by Tom Webster and Edward Peni, and performance by Hamish Annan.
Before We Begin
📆 25 Feb - 01 Mar, 6.30pm
📍Basement Theatre
🎟️ Choose What You Pay tickets available at: https://www.iticket.co.nz/events/2025/feb/before-we-begin
🎭 This is an independent, non-funded work. Ticket sales directly support the artist and makers. We've chosen a Choose What You Pay model to make the work accessible to everyone. If you're able, we encourage you to support the show with your ticket purchase.
🏳️🌈 This event is part of the 2025 Auckland Pride Festival. See the full programme at aucklandpride.org.nz
Content information: R16, audience participation, bad language, sexual themes, potential nudity, acknowledges the existence of queer intimacy. Discussions of non-consensual intimate imagery. Explicit content, including simulated sex acts.
