Heartbreak Hotel
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Heartbreak Hotel offers a holistic and humorous exploration of how heartbreak affects our minds and bodies, in an exhilarating new performance blending vulnerable memoir, famous novels, and scientific texts.
This one is for the young hearts, the old hearts, and the broken hearts. Heartbreak Hotel invites audiences into a world of love, loss, and everything in between. Join Karin McCracken as she navigates the highs and lows of heartbreak, with Simon Leary embodying the ex-loves and best friends along the way. Packed with lo-fi covers of classic breakup songs, bad Tinder dates, and tentative fresh starts, this show is as funny as it is heartfelt.
Created by Eleanor Bishop and Karin McCracken, winners of the 2022 Bruce Mason Award, this work is generous, reflective, and full of wit.
You’ll want to cry. You’ll want to laugh. And you’ll leave reminded of the value of feeling deeply — the good, the bad, and the heartbreakingly beautiful.
★★★★★ “Go if you have been heartbroken, go if you haven’t (yet), just go, go, go!” – Everything Theatre, London
“Poignant, funny – and fantastic. Karin McCracken is, quite simply, brilliant. She’s hilarious, heartwarming and moving – often all at once.” – Theatreview
Created by EBKM
Content advisory: Flashing lights & smoke/haze. Most suitable for ages 12+
This one is for the young hearts, the old hearts, and the broken hearts. Heartbreak Hotel invites audiences into a world of love, loss, and everything in between. Join Karin McCracken as she navigates the highs and lows of heartbreak, with Simon Leary embodying the ex-loves and best friends along the way. Packed with lo-fi covers of classic breakup songs, bad Tinder dates, and tentative fresh starts, this show is as funny as it is heartfelt.
Created by Eleanor Bishop and Karin McCracken, winners of the 2022 Bruce Mason Award, this work is generous, reflective, and full of wit.
You’ll want to cry. You’ll want to laugh. And you’ll leave reminded of the value of feeling deeply — the good, the bad, and the heartbreakingly beautiful.
★★★★★ “Go if you have been heartbroken, go if you haven’t (yet), just go, go, go!” – Everything Theatre, London
“Poignant, funny – and fantastic. Karin McCracken is, quite simply, brilliant. She’s hilarious, heartwarming and moving – often all at once.” – Theatreview
Created by EBKM
Content advisory: Flashing lights & smoke/haze. Most suitable for ages 12+
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Where is it happening?
129 Gloucester Street, Christchurch, New Zealand 8011, New Zealand
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Host or PublisherThe Court Theatre
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