Head

A GIANT FOUR METRE HEAD WAKES UP ON STAGE - HE THINKS HE’S IMPORTANT

A giant beautifully crafted four metre Head wakes up on stage, he has no body - yet thinks he is important.

He tells us he is a fake, created months before the audience even came into the theatre and yet, ironically, after telling us he’s not real he enters into an increasingly intimate relationship with the audience.

He has two servants, a gorilla and a headless person. We watch as his ego grows out of control and his cruelty towards them increases.

HEAD was a STAB commission. 

  • 2005 - Winner of The Chapman Tripp Award for Most Original Production

  • • Carl Bland
    • Peta Rutter

  • • Carl Bland
    • Peta Rutter
    • Ben Crowder

  • • John Gibson
    • Brad Gledhill
    • John Verryt
    • Elizabeth Whiting

  • • Carl Bland
    • Scott Cotter
    • Ben Crowder
    • Peta Rutter

  • "…it's obviously not your average night out when a gorilla gives you a vanilla ice cream."

    NZ Herald

  • "…a mind-bending multimedia show."

    National Business Review

  • "…at times teasingly opaque, often funny, and always stimulating...this entertaining and engaging journey into the mind of the HEAD is well worth taking"

    Laurie Atkinson

  • "When you hear gasps of astonishment around you in a theatre, then realise one of them was your own, you know that what you are seeing is something remarkable."

    Lynn Freeman

Development and original presentation partners for Head