Basement Radio
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Rat Chats - Performance as Power: Language, Identity, and Representation
27 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Rat Chats, where we have a chill convo with the artists behind upcoming performing arts works. Today we sit down with Jess Karamjeet (Redun...
Rat Chats - Don’t Be Afraid To Sit In The Front Row: Improv, Interactive Theatre, and Comedy
29 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the first episode of Rat Chats, where we have a chill convo with the artists behind upcoming performing arts works. Today we sit down with ...
Once in a Black Moon: A Critical Conversation curated by Black Creatives Aotearoa
13 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Last year, we were so stoked to have Silo Theatre at Basement Theatre presenting seven methods of killing kylie jenner by Jasmine Lee-Jones. They part...
Tautai Fale-Ship: Teremoana Rapley
08 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As part of the Tautai 2021 Fale-ship Residency, we present the Tautai 2021 Fale-ship Podcast hosted by Amanda Wilson, talking to artists from the prog...
Tautai Fale-Ship: Marina Alefosio
08 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As part of the Tautai 2021 Fale-ship Residency, we present the Tautai 2021 Fale-ship Podcast hosted by Amanda Wilson, talking to artists from the prog...
Disruptors: Gemishka Chetty & Dev Sherman
08 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
EPISODE 9: In Patralekhika Productions' play The Kamasutra Chronicles, writer Shriya Bhagwat explores the ups and downs of marriage whilst tackli...
Disruptors: Art & Money
24 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
EPISODE 8: As the creative sector claws its way out of the pit of 2020, our live panel discuss what art is worth, both for our emotional survival and ...
Disruptors: Moe Laga & James Nokise
09 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
EPISODE 7: Performance artist Moe Laga and comedian James Nokise are two Pasifika artists who share similar cultural backgrounds but make work that is...
Disruptors: The Art of Coping and Monetising Grief
25 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
EPISODE 5: "To be an artist is to suffer." The old adage coined by famed philosopher Aldous Huxley kicked off the fifth episode of Disruptor...
Disruptors: Jean Sergent & Sarita So
21 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
EPISODE 6: Jean and Sarita talk about making their solo shows Change Your Own Life and Digging to Cambodia ahead of their seasons at Basement. In thei...
Disruptors: Alice Kirker & Elyssia Wilson-Heti
26 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
EPISODE 3: A conversation between incoming and outgoing Producers in Residence at Basement Theatre – Elyssia Wilson-Heti and Alice Kirker. Elyssia a...
Disruptors: Ahi Karunaharan & Amber Liberté, and Alice Kirker & Elyssia Wilson-Heti
26 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
EPISODE 4: In this special fourth episode of Disruptors, recorded in the depths of lockdown, four theatre practitioners reflect on what happens when t...
Disruptors: Alice Canton & Sarita Das
26 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
EPISODE 2: Sarita and Alice chat through their creative process with all its struggles and triumphs, talk the importance of prioritising indigenous pr...
Disruptors: Frickin Dangerous Bro
10 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
EPISODE 1: In the first ever episode of Disruptors, comedy trio Frickin Dangerous Bro (Pax Assadi, James Roque and Jamaine Ross) talk about New Zealan...