“Nothing short of astonishing” Lynn Freeman, Capital Times
Gold Pin – 2011 Best Design Awards (Spatial, Exhibition Installations and Temporary Structures)
‘EOK – Everything is OK’ was a performance project conceived, directed and produced by Storybox featuring 5 performers.
Staged in a large warehouse in Wellington, the set filled the space with a tower of shipping containers. With the containers as a backdrop, rusting car hulks and scrap metal created an apocalyptic world the audience could explore during the performance. At the rear, the containers became a cross section of a modern block of flats. A third transitional space led the audience between these contrasting realities.The world was occupied by five actors and the audience that explored the three separately-defined stages dealing with themes of excess and isolation in consumer culture.
EOK was part of the 2010 Bats STAB season supported by Creative New Zealand. Thanks to Tiger Translate for their support.
“Impressively staged in a large warehouse with room enough to house four containers Everything is OK begins in the future, a world of urban desolation where a huckster pedals with religious fervour the snake-oil of self-improvement, television ads extol the virtues of sun cream, and young men dream of escape in fast cars but the only cars are wrecks and oil has presumably long ceased to exist.
In the middle of this stark arena is a dining table at which a ritualistic family meal is created with cartoonish exaggeration by a mother who serves up fine sand and what looked like from where I was squatting bits of old computers. An old ritual is carried out but without meaning.” – Laurie Atkinson, Dominon Post