Opening on January 9 is the spectacular stage show from Australia’s leading innovators of physical and visual theatre, Erth Theatre Company. Gondwana: Land of the Giants features full scale puppets, giant inflatable plant life, evocative soundscapes and large projections.
Thrill seeking family audiences can experience the awe-inspiring journey that began 80 million years ago when land masses changed shape and flesh-eating dinosaurs fought for their survival on the supercontinent.
The volatile nature of New Zealand’s geological environment is also highlighted in the summer programme with the Volcanoes exhibition. New Zealand is part of what scientists call the circum-Pacific belt, otherwise known as the Pacific Ring of Fire. In light of recent geological activity the Volcanoes exhibition continues to offer relevancy to public audiences.
Continuing to focus on the environment and its dramatic impact on life is the acclaimed Darwin exhibition brought exclusively to Auckland Museum from The American Museum of Natural History. Darwin’s revolutionary theory of evolution helped change the way we see the world and made us think about where we came from. The exhibition, heralded as “…a triumph” by the NZ Herald, will continue to bring to life the theories and research of Charles Darwin until January 13.
The theme of evolution carries through to another feature event in the summer programme with Metazoa. This extraordinary life sized interactive video game invites audiences to evolve alongside other individual participants as they journey through a series of natural environments from prehistoric times to the present. With responses from a visual marker on animal hat digital sensors on a large screen, participants create playful images and trigger unexpected sounds as they evolve through a series of forms… and maybe back again. -- www.aucklandmuseum.com
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