The Effect Programme

He pou atua, he pou whenua, he pou tangata.

Ko Waitematā te moana

Ko Waikōkota te whenua.

Ko Te Pou Whakamaharatanga mō Māui Tikitiki a Tāranga te tohu o te kaha, o te kōrero, o te whakapapa o tēnei wāhi, o tēnei whare.

Nau mai e te tī, e te tā ki te whare kōrero, ki te whare whakaari o ASB ki te tahatika o te moana.

Mauri tau, mauri ora!

Pouwhakamaumāharatanga mō Māui Tikitiki a Tāranga

The Memorial Post of Māui the Topknot of Tāranga

Robert Jahnke ONZM (Ngāi Taharoa, Te Whānau a Iritekura, Te Whānau a Rākairo o Ngāti Porou) 2016

Laminated tōtara and Corten steel

Proudly commissioned by Auckland Theatre Company for ASB Waterfront Theatre

The symbols of support, of strength and of guardianship stand fast and proud.

The waters of Waitematā ebb and flow against the shores here at Waikōkota, the land upon which we stand.

The pou of remembrance to Māui Tikitiki a Tāranga stands tall as a beacon of courage, of stories passed down and of the history that connects us all to this place and to this space.

We welcome you all from near and far to this house of stories, to the ASB Waterfront Theatre.

Mauri tau, mauri ora!

AUCKLAND THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS

16 APR – 11 MAY 2024 |

CAST

Jayden Daniels — Tristan Frey

Jarod Rawiri — Dr Toby Sealey

Zoë Robins — Connie Hall

Sara Wiseman — Dr Lorna James

CREATIVE

Playwright — Lucy Prebble

Director — Benjamin Kilby-Henson

Production Designer — Dan Williams

Lighting Designer — Jane Hakaraia

Sound Designer — Chelsea Jade

Movement Director — Katrina George

Intimacy Director — Miriama McDowell

Assistant Director —

Keagan Carr Fransch

Costume & Props Design Assistant —

Daniella Salazar

Vocal Coach — Cherie Moore

PRODUCTION

Production Managers —

Pilot Productions: Jamie Blackburn & Khalid Parkar

Stage Manager — Catherine Grealish

Technical Operator — Ruby van Dorp

QLab Programmer —

Pilot Productions: Michael Goodwin

Audio Engineer — Justyn Pilbrow

Audio Mix Engineer — Chris Armitstead

Fly Technician — Max Manson

Producer in Training — Rana Hamida

Publicity — Bridget de Launay

Photographer — Andi Crown

Consultant Psychotherapist —

Rachel Davies

The Effect received its world premiere at the National Theatre, London, directed by Rupert Goold and co-produced with Headlong on 13 November 2012.

The Effect by Lucy Prebble is the third production in Auckland Theatre Company’s 2024 season, premiering on Tuesday 16 April 2024 at the ASB Waterfront Theatre.

The Effect is 2 hours and 20 minutes long, including interval. The production contains sexual references, offensive language, physical aggression, seizure depiction, and references to depression, anxiety and suicide. This production includes the use of realistic organ props.

Please switch off all noise-emitting devices.

Note from Auckland Theatre Company

As the astonishing denouement of the TV series Succession played out last May, our Artistic Associate Benjamin Kilby-Henson and I revisited the plays of Lucy Prebble to consider ways in which we might keep the excitement going.

Ben had directed the New Zealand premiere of The Effect in 2017 under his Fractious Tash moniker and as we talked, the National Theatre in London announced a revival with an updated text: a production now playing on Broadway. It was the moment.

I am a fan of revivals. I want us to revisit plays of the canon, recent and historic, anew. As new generations of audiences engage with theatre-going, I want to share with them great texts in thrilling new productions. And so it is with this new version of The Effect.

This bold new production, directed by Ben, with an entirely new team of collaborators, makes full use of the beautiful big stage at our home, ASB Waterfront Theatre. The concept is at once expansive and intimate. The four actors who accepted our

invitations have been a dream in every respect; committed, skilled, hard-working and glorious people to be around.

I offer our heartfelt thanks to Aucklanders, who are the principal investors in Auckland Theatre Company through their rates. We take seriously our responsibility to be a theatre company for our city, to embrace new stories and communities, and to entertain.

Our 2024 Youth Theatre Company has formed and is under way creating new work and learning new skills. It is on a trajectory to be on stage in Joni Nelson’s new play, For Country, in July and, later on, in our new production of Peter Pan with Nightsong. A shoutout to the generous Youth Company Supporters Group, led by Peter Macky and Joan Vujcich, who make this work possible.

It’s our privilege to make theatre for you. Enjoy.

Jonathan Bielski Artistic Director & CEO Auckland Theatre Company

Note from the Director

No matter what we put into our bodies, love will always be the most potent drug.

Or so we like to believe, perhaps need to believe, in a time when depression rates are climbing exponentially and where decisions in this world appear to be the antithesis of aroha.

Somehow, the optimism bias of our chemical and physical makeup, however, keeps us striving for that most intoxicating and addictive of feelings – the dopamine hit of love. From the electrifying kindling of a new relationship, to the deeper blossoming of long-term companionship, love still has the power to overtake our rational brains and turn us to gooey-eyed mush.

And as a result, it is no wonder that love is the inspiration for some of the world’s most passionate art. From pop songs, to pulpy fiction novels, from sonnets to sizzling rom-coms, it is love with which we are fascinated and of which we are enamoured. In many ways the human race is in love with love.

No less so here, with Lucy’s Prebble’s smart, incisive and messy

exploration of the dopamine hit inside our brains that tells us what we’re feeling is love. Prebble gives us a quartet of complex characters, whose relationships echo and reflect one another, all offering exploration – but no definitive answers – over the complex, nuanced and, often-times, murky territory of human emotion. The deftness of the writing is somehow both a joyous celebration and a painful autopsy. You’re in for a very good time!

None of this would be possible without the laser-like talent of this small but mighty cast. Their love and support of one another throughout the process has been inspiring and humbling. In the hands of some of the very best production team, we’ve been able to create – both visually and sonically – a fresh and steely arena within which these complex relationships can be bonded, be ignited and crumble.

To the actors. To the team. To aroha. To love. To kisses that make your heart explode into fireworks. To my Jack.

Benjamin Kilby-Henson

Benjamin is one of New Zealand’s leading theatre directors, who has forged a diverse career spanning form, scale and medium, including original works, scripted premieres and opera.

Prior to working in New Zealand, Benjamin worked for one of the UK’s largest youth arts organisations, leading participatory projects for primarily at-risk youth, including taking six productions a year to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for nine consecutive years. Ben later trained in theatre direction at the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, London, while continuing to direct for the London Fringe and cabaret circuit. Following projects in Germany and France, Ben was director in residence at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford.

Ben teaches in Auckland’s drama schools and is Artistic Manager of The Actors’ Program, Aotearoa’s leading training ground for actors with one of the highest employment rates in the country.

Under theatre collective Fractious Tash, Ben has received critical acclaim for Earnest, Not Psycho and Titus, which was then remounted for a sell-out season at the Pop-up Globe (featuring Beyoncé covers by New Zealand’s only steelpan band...).

The award-winning production of Last Tapes’ Valerie toured throughout New Zealand, following dates in Australia and Edinburgh, adding to its accolade the coveted Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

In 2023, Benjamin co-directed King Lear for Auckland Theatre Company. The acclaimed production was seen by more than 14,000 patrons. He continued a year with The Bard by directing Something Rotten! for The Court Theatre, Christchurch. The celebrated musical was seen by more than 17,000 patrons and will return to The Court in July for a repeat season to meet demand.

Benjamin is the Artistic Associate and Casting Director at Auckland Theatre Company.

BENJAMIN KILBY-HENSON Director

Playwright

LUCY PREBBLE

Lucy Prebble is a writer for film, television, games and theatre. She was executive producer and writer on the BAFTA, Golden Globe and Emmy award-winning HBO drama Succession, for which she has also won a WGA and a PGA Award. She is the writer and co-creator of I Hate Suzie and I Hate Suzie Too, which was nominated for five BAFTAs, including Best Drama, Best Writer and Best Actress, and won her the Royal Television Society Award for Best Writer. She is also the creator and writer of the TV series Secret Diary of a Call Girl (ITV/Showtime).

For theatre, Lucy’s had a rewritten version of her award-winning play, The Effect, was staged at the National Theatre, directed by Jamie Lloyd, and then transferred to The Shed in New York. She wrote the political and emotional meta-thriller

A Very Expensive Poison, which was a sell-out, five-star hit for The Old Vic in 2019 and was Olivier nominated for Best New Play. She is the writer of Enron, a hugely successful piece about the infamous corporate fraud; it transferred to the West End after sell-out runs at both the Royal Court and Chichester Festival Theatre. Her first play, The Sugar Syndrome (2003) won her the George Devine Award and was performed at the Royal Court.

Photo credit: Kate Peters

Synopsis

Two lovers. Two doctors. One drug trial.

When Connie and Tristan sign up for a clinical trial to test a new antidepressant, they fall for each other. Hard. Sealed off from the outside world, they’re ready to break all the rules. But are their feelings real or nothing more than a side effect from the drug that’s firing a dopamine hit to their brains?

Overseeing the experiment are Dr Lorna James and Dr Toby Sealey. The two doctors find themselves entangled in the personal and ethical dilemmas that arise as the experiment unfolds.

This chemical romance keeps you guessing as it asks: which is more powerful – the head or the heart?

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Cast

JAYDEN DANIELS

Tristan Frey

Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Korokī Kahukura (Waikato/Tainui), Te Ātiawa

TRAINING: Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School (2012), Bachelor of Performing Arts Majoring in Acting for Screen and Stage

FOR ATC: The Effect is Jayden’s debut at ATC

OTHER THEATRE: Ngā Puke; As You Like It; Romeo and Juliet

SCREEN: My Life Is Murder Season 2; Head High Seasons 1 and 2; Shortland Street; The Panthers; The Exceptional Squad; The New Legends of Monkey Seasons 1 and 2; End of Term; Celebrity Treasure Island; Rule of Mum; Baby Mama’s Club

OTHER: Winner New Zealand Television Awards Best Actor, Head High

JAROD RAWIRI Dr Toby Sealey

Ngāti Whanaunga, Ngāti Paoa, Ngāti Hine, Te Rerehua, Ngāti Tahu

TRAINING: Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School (2000); Bachelor of Performing Arts, Majoring in Acting; Selwyn Performing Arts

FOR ATC: Long Day’s Journey into Night

OTHER THEATRE: Crazy for You; A Doll’s House; Who Needs a Vespa?; Southern Lights; Orpheus Descending; The Rover; The Prophet; Te Ao Mārama; Awhina; Maui; Take Me Out; The Cut; Lobby Hero; Bloodlines; Toys; The Brothers Size; I, George Nepia; White Rabbit, Red Rabbit; Angels in America; La Vie Dans Une Marionette; Cellfish

SCREEN: Mataku ’Revelation’; The Market; New Years Drama Skits; Kai Kōrero; Whānau; Kōrero Mai; Nights in the Gardens of Spain; The Jaquie Brown Diaries; What Really Happened; The Almighty Johnsons; Stolen; Billy; Harry; Auckland Daze; Hope and Wire; Shortland Street; Mean Mums; The Brokenwood Mysteries; Ahikāroa

ZOË ROBINS

Connie Hall

Nigerian/Pākehā

TRAINING: The Actors’ Program (2014)

FOR ATC: The Effect is Zoë’s debut at Auckland Theatre Company

OTHER THEATRE: Sheep; Oneironaut; The Bacchae

SCREEN: The Wheel of Time; Black Christmas; The Brokenwood

Mysteries; The Finest; Power Rangers Ninja Steel; Shortland Street; The Shannara Chronicles

SARA WISEMAN

Dr Lorna James

TRAINING: Unitec (1996), Bachelor of Performing and Screen Arts

FOR ATC: Death of a Salesman; Cabaret; Amy’s View; Collected Stories; Ladies Night

OTHER THEATRE: Leah; Under Milk Wood; Proof; Danny and the Deep Blue Sea; Strange Children; Lashings of Whipped Cream; This Is How It Goes; Killer Joe; The Vagina Monologues; Love, Loss, and What I Wore; Hate; Christ Almighty; The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant

SCREEN: Shortland Street; Hercules ’Heedless Hearts’; Street Legal; Hercules ’The Future King’; Xena Warrior

Princess; Jackson's Wharf; Mercy Peak; Mataku ’Heirloom’; Atomic Twister; Serial Killers; Maddigan’s Quest; Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America; Outrageous

Fortune; Amazing Extraordinary Friends; Life’s a Riot; The Cult; The Almighty Johnsons; What Really Happened –Votes for Women; Crownies; A Place to Call Home; The Doctor Blake Mysteries; Auckland Daze; Venus and Mars; Rake; Constance; The Sounds; One Lane Bridge; Inside; The Brokenwood Mysteries; Between Two Worlds; Under the Vines; The Gulf; Power Rangers Dino Fury; One of Us Is Lying; Mystic; My Life is Murder; Harrow; Creamerie; High Country; The Waiting Room; Letters About the Weather; Home Kill; Gateway to Hell; Embers; The Word; Our Secret; Chalk; This is Her; Bridge; The Insatiable Moon; Matariki; Heavenly Creatures; Stringer; Sione’s Wedding; Luella Miller; Jinx Sister; Rest for The Wicked; Love Birds; Fatal Honeymoon; Nerve; Human Traces; Dark Noise; Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

Creative

DAN WILLIAMS Production Designer

TRAINING: Massey University and Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School; Bachelor of Performance Design (2002 –2006)

FOR ATC: When the Sun and Moon Collide; Filthy Business; Enlightenment; Boys; The Seagull; Here & Now Festivals 2018 & 2021

OTHER THEATRE: Silo Theatre, The Court Theatre, Downstage; Circa Theatre; Bats; Basement Theatre; The Fortune Theatre; The Conch; Taki Rua; Massive Theatre Company; TAPAC; Q Theatre; The Actors’ Program

Alongside his theatre career, Dan has directed and designed for large-scale events such as WOW, Summer in the Square, Auckland Cabaret Festival, and worked as Art Director for SeaWorld in Abu Dhabi. In 2023 he won Set Designer of the Year for his work on Public Service Announcements at Circa Theatre in Wellington.

SCREEN: Workmates New Zealand Feature Film - Production Designer; Whina New Zealand Feature Film – Props Master / Off-Set Art Director; The Legend of Baron To’a - New Zealand Feature Film – Off-Set Art Director and Lead Set Decorator; The Letter for the King Netflix series – Costume Breakdown Artist, TVNZ The Great NZ Dance Masala, Set Design for live television finale.

CHELSEA JADE Sound Designer

FOR ATC: The Effect is Chelsea’s debut at Auckland Theatre Company

OTHER: Chelsea Jade is a multihyphenate artist who has been working in music since 2011. Her work includes graphic design for Grammy-nominated band Deafheaven, choreography for Georgia Lines, and songwriting for artists like The Chainsmokers, CXLOE and Jai Wolf. In 2021, she appeared as a dancer in Lorde’s Mood Ring music video. Her songs have appeared in Netflix’s Emily in Paris, Apple TV’s Dickinson and HBO’s The Sex Lives of College Girls. She has been the primary art director and graphic designer for her eponymous project, including 2022’s Soft Spot, released on Carpark Records, and 2018’s Personal Best. She is a Red Bull Music Academy alumna and was the recipient of the VNZMA Critics’ Choice prize in 2012. Her songs have been short-listed for APRA Silver Scroll in both 2018 and 2019 for Life of the Party and Laugh it Off, respectively. The video for the latter won Best Music Video at the Academy Awards-accredited Show Me Shorts festival in 2018. Her work has been featured in Pitchfork, The Fader, NYLON and Harper’s Bazaar. Chelsea Jade is currently based in Los Angeles.

JANE HAKARAIA Lighting Designer

Ngāti Raukawa ki te Tonga, Ngāti Kapu

TRAINING: Unitec (2008), Bachelor of Design

FOR ATC: Astroman; Paniora!; The Heretic

OTHER THEATRE: The Valentina; Te

Tangi a te Tūī; Kōpū; Prima Facie; Moe Miti

KATRINA GEORGE Movement Director

Malie Sāmoa, Pākehā

TRAINING: Toi

Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School (2017)

FOR ATC: Under The Mountain

OTHER THEATRE: Moe Miti; Owls Do Cry; A Floor, Some Thoughts, and Us; Masina Returning Home; Kororāreka: The Ballad of Maggie Flynn; Emilia; Te Kuititanga – The Narrowing

SCREEN: Hang Time; Bats

OTHER: Movement and Devising Theatre Tutor at The Actors’ Program

MIRIAMA McDOWELL Intimacy Director

Ngāti Hine

TRAINING: Toi

Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School (2002); Ēcole Philippe Gaulier (2015); Te Wānanga Takiura (2023)

FOR ATC: Hyperspace Intimacy Director); Astroman (Actor); Le Sud (Actor); The Bach (Actor)

OTHER THEATRE: The Wasp; UPU; Burn Her; Romeo and Juliet; Cellfish; The Prophet

SCREEN: Whina; Head High; My Life Is Murder; Creamerie; Coming Home in the Dark; Mahana; The Dark Horse; No. 2

KEAGAN CARR FRANSCH Assistant Director

TRAINING: Toi

Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School (2013), Bachelor of Performing Arts, Acting; Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (2018), Master of Arts), Acting

FOR ATC: The Heartbreak Choir; Manatees (Director, ATC Youth Company)

OTHER THEATRE: Dance Nation (Actor, The Court Theatre); seven methods of killing kylie jenner (Director, Silo Theatre); Together Forever (Director, Hot Shame and Basement Theatre)

SCREEN: Pete’s Dragon

Accessibility

Audio-Described Performance and pre-show Touch Tour

The Effect

Sun 28 Apr 4:00pm

The audio-described performance is open to all and includes a live audio commentary relayed to blind and low-vision patrons in the audience via earpieces. Patrons with accessibility tickets can also attend a touch tour, 90 minutes before the performance.

Supported by:

Wheelchair Access

ASB Waterfront Theatre has eight seats and three wheelchair spaces in the auditorium, reserved for customers with special access requirements. There is stepfree, level access to all tiers of the building and to seating in the stalls. Wheelchairaccessible toilets are located on the ground floor; accessible parking is available on Madden Street.

NZSL-Interpreted Performance

The Effect

Sat 11 May 8:00pm

The NZSL-interpreted performance is open to all and features an interpreter on stage, signing the show for Deaf and hard-ofhearing patrons in the audience.

How to Book

Deaf/Hard-of-hearing and blind/ low-vision patrons can buy tickets for NZSL-interpreted and audio-described performances for $20. One companion ticket per theatre-goer is also available for $20. Please contact the box office to book accessible performance tickets or if you have any special requirements.

Hearing Assistance

The theatre has a T-Loop radio frequency system to amplify the sound of the performance. If you don’t use a hearing aid or your hearing aid does not have a T setting, there is a listener unit available on request from the box office.

Assistance Dogs

Assistance dogs are welcome. We can find a seat that’s comfortable for you and your dog or arrange for the theatre staff to look after your dog during the show.

NZSL Interpreting and Signing — Platform Interpreting NZ

Audio Description — Audio Described Aotearoa Ltd

Sign up to receive news about the accessibility programme: atc.co.nz/access

Acknowledgments

Auckland Theatre Company would like to thank the following for their help with this production: Sarah Hough, Sarah O’Gorman, Paul White, Crosson Architects studio, Zambesi, Todd Emerson, Jack Kilby, Signý Björg, Campbell Emmerton at The Seneca Clinic, Jessie Lawrence, Sheena Irving, Daniel Watterson, William Wallace, Aaron Ward, John at Arena Commercial, Nick and Tim at Pixel, Gina Grimshaw, Simon and James at Lotech Media, Joseph at Xytech, Emma Wehipeihana, Sir Richard Faull KNZM FRSNZ, Dr Inia Tomas.

Producers In Training initiative by Proudly Asian Theatre with Black Creative Aotearoa and Alif Theatre.

By arrangement with Knight Hall Agency Ltd.

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Co-Leaders Peter Macky and Joan Vujcich

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Vivien Sutherland Bridgwater MNZM (Chair)

Ngāti Whātua

Bronwyn Bradley

Isaac Hikaka

Ngāruahine, Ngāti Ruanui, Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Tūwharetoa

Katie Jacobs

Nathan Joe 周润豪

Derek McCormack

Graeme Pinfold

LEADERSHIP

Artistic Director & CEO: Jonathan Bielski

ARTISTIC

Artistic Associate & Casting Director:

Benjamin Kilby-Henson

Youth Company Co-Leaders:

Matthew Kereama Ngāti Raukawa, Sam Phillips, Beatriz Romilly

ARTISTIC OPERATIONS

Director, Artistic Operations & Deputy CEO:

Anna Cameron

Producer: Sums Selvarajan

Junior Producer: Alyssa Medel

Head of Learning & Participation:

Sam Phillips

Production Coordinator: Paige Pomana

Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Rakaipaaka, Rongomaiwahine

Operations Manager: Lucy Gardner

MARKETING & TICKETING

Director, Marketing: Joanna O’Connor

Marketing Manager: Kate Shapiro

Graphic Designer: Wanda Tambrin

Marketing Executive: Maxene London

Ticketing Manager: Bruce Brown

Box Office Team Leader: Gary Hofman

Ticketing Assistants: Ella Brislen, Izzy Creemers, Molly Curnow, Benjamin Forrester, Tobias Mangelsdorf, Talia Pua, Sophie Roberts, Sophie Watson, Tom Webster

FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION

Director, Finance: Elena Nikolaeva

Finance Officer: Dina Abramova

Accountant: Reena Mudliar

Head of Strategy: Natasha Pearce

Archives Assistant: Hazel Oh

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Director, ASB Waterfront Theatre: Sharon Byrne

Co-Front of House Managers: Lucas Haugh, Dario Kuschke

Venue Technical Manager: Johnny Chen

Senior Venue Technician: Nathanael Bristow

Technical Team: Clint Edwards, Mike Keating, Max Manson, Patrick Minto, Aaron Mitchell, Joseph Noster, Ruby van Dorp

Front of House Supervisors: Billy Blamires, Lucie Everett-Brown, Sofi Issak-Zade, Arien Okan, Rachael Yielder

Front of House: Cara Allen, Ivy Alvarez, Luke Bishop, Elliot Blakley, Emily Burr, Ruben Cirilovic, Jack Clarkson, Bailey Cropp, Mia Crossan, Sam Dawkins, Merlia De Ridder, Nat Dolan, Eva Fulco, Eugene Garry, Mary Grice, Lara Grozev, Ailsa Scott, Amy Henwood, Kirsty Leggett, Prakritik Mal, Millie Manning, Pearl McCracken, Demos Murphy, Carla Newton, Joseph Noster, Finlay Pinkerton, Fraser Polkinghorne, Pawan Rao, Vena-Rose Lennane, Emily Smith, George Tughushi,

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