7-11 APR, 6.30PM

Milli

Milli
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  • Date 7-11 APR, 6.30PM
  • Venue Studio
  • Price Choose What You Pay
  • Runtime 60 mins
  • Cast Emilio Mancilla
  • Sound Design Tihema Bennett - Sound Design
  • Director/co-creator Esaú Cesar Allemora
  • Producer Genoveva Reverte
  • Supported By Rainbow New Zealand Charitable Trust & Rule Foundation
  • Lighting Design Alylai Flynn
Show info
MILLI is a fiercely Mexican, unapologetically queer work which rips open machoism and defends culture as the body itself. 

Fusing physicality and genre into the sacred rituals of corn, this work challenges the binaries and silences that still shape queer identity.

Late at night, the city starts lying. In the wake of something violent, something enters this person’s life and doesn’t leave quietly. It takes over his body, his thinking, his sense of safety. What looks like love starts behaving more like risk, exposure, dependency, damage… or is it?

Part neo-noir fever dream, part cabaret ritual, this close-range solo follows what happens when the first experience of love isn’t gentle when it collides with identity, desire, survival, and the need to be seen. 

Supported by Rainbow New Zealand Charitable Trust & Rule Foundation
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Content warnings

Strong thematic content around machismo, cultural erasure, identity-based trauma.

Presented by
Alux Theatre / Brick Haus Productions
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