Simon Prast storms back to the stage this July performing in Shane Bosher’s Everything After.
Known and beloved as a mainstay of Aotearoa’s stage and screen, you’ve no doubt seen him in more than one show you’ve loved!
Prast is back on the boards, performing “the role of a lifetime”, honouring the survivors of the HIV/AIDs crisis of the 90s and fought for change at the fore of Aotearoa’s gay liberation movement. Prast describes the work as “intimate and epic” and audiences are sure to be blown away.
Shane Bosher invited Prast to play the role throughout the development of the play, which Prast desbribes as “enormously flattering.”
The pair’s partnership spans many years and the chance for Prast to bring the character to life with Shane in the director’s chair is “sublime”, with Prast commenting, “I trust him so much and I feel so comfortable. There is so much of it that felt torn from the pages from my own life that I could relate to. I just felt a connection.”
The script is the first full-length work from Shane Bosher, known to audiences for his artful direction of Angels in America, A Streetcar Named Desire, When The Rain Stops Falling and Homos. The script took out the Adam Award for Best New Zealand Play in 2018, and comes to the stage this July for a highly anticipated world premiere season.
Shane Bosher’s Everything After, plays at Q Theatre from 2-18 July. Strictly limited season, get your tickets now at qtheatre.co.nz
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