‘You have 60 minutes to come up with a vision to save the world, and the timer’s ticking - what will you do? Bursting with wit, energy and tenacity, LIKE A RIVER is an unpredictable and rule-breaking countdown to a better, different world. In a lively conversation with each other and the audience, our ensemble of five oddball individuals wrestle with the complexities of what it means to be a hero.’

LIKE A RIVER was written by the brilliantly funny and acclaimed playwright Jo Randerson. Jo’s award-winning shows have played in New Zealand and worldwide, and her writing has twice been shortlisted for the International Institute of Modern Letters Prize.

‘It’s a wild world out there at the moment - as my eleven year old son puts it: “It’s like in every direction you turn, there’s a problem.” We know so much about what is wrong, and we live on a planet whose future is uncertain. How do we work towards solutions without resorting to any of the violent, binary, hierarchical thinking that has caused so many problems in the past? The title is in reference to a Lao Tzu quote, who considers the way of ‘water’ to be the highest way: “Against the hard and the strong, nothing outdoes it, for nothing can change it, the soft overcomes the hard.”
JO RANDERSON