How to Build a Gate
Touch Tour(s), Relaxed Performance(s)
Liza has always been the smartest person in the room, especially when she's alone... at least she used to be.
A chronic overachiever and textbook narcissist with a caffeine addiction
that would rival most Starbucks card holders, she's built her entire
identity around being exceptional. So when she's chosen to spearhead a
cutting-edge AI project, it feels less like an opportunity and more like
a gift-- no, a prayer from God.
But exceptional though she may be, she's still human, and still has
those human needs we hate to ignore. So when a hot neighbour comes
knocking, she just can't run from temptation. Too bad that neighbor
might be a little closer to home than she thinks?
Extra cupa sugar,
anyone?
As her creation begins to outsmart, out-feel, and out-moral its maker,
Liza finds herself asking the one question she never thought she would:
what happens when being "the best" means you've made something better?
Fresh
off the finale of Soho Playhouse Lighthouse series in New York, How to
Build a Gate is back in New Zealand bigger and better than ever!
Featuring Kate Low and American actor Megan Piggott, How to Build a Gate
is a razor-sharp new comedy about control, competition, and the illusion
of perfection. In a world that worships innovation though it has long
forgotten why, the play takes ambition, ethics, and the burnout of
trying to matter under a microscopic glass.
From playwright Electra Artemis--whose self proclaimed "hooker with a
heart of gold" writing style will keep you laughing right til it
doesn't--this Fringe premiere reimagines the God vs Man myth for the
startup age. Equal parts satire, soul-searching and a heroine with
rockin' a-cups, How to Build a Gate invites audiences to laugh, cringe,
and maybe see themselves in Liza's heartfelt, heartless mania.
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Theatre
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$25.00 -
17-21 February 2026 -
60 minutes -
BATS Theatre -
The Stage -
PGR -
Flashing Lights, Medium Coarse Language
