Red Mole: A Romance

From the director of Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web comes this portrait of the radical and boundary-pushing New Zealand theatre troupe Red Mole.

"For nearly 30 years the flamboyant radical theatre troupe, which emerged out of New Zealand’s counterculture in the early 1970s, doggedly set out to make their vision come true. They performed wherever they could find an audience, from schools to strip clubs to opera houses, and their political cabaret was revolutionary in its Muldoon-era heyday—and hugely popular among a leftist cognoscenti. Red Mole then set sail to take Manhattan, playing venues off-off-Broadway and on, while living more from the smell of the greasepaint than the roar of the crowds.

"Annie Goldson subtitles her exhilarating, deeply moving documentary 'A Romance'. Red Mole’s goals were romantic, and at the troupe’s centre was a troika whose talents, energy and interpersonal dynamic fuelled the momentum: stentorian-voiced Alan Brunton, the tenacious performer Sally Rodwell, and the multi-media phenomenon Deborah Hunt." (New Zealand International Film Festival)

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