Where Our Shadows Meet

Where Our Shadows Meet is an intergenerational story about love, loss and language, told with physical storytelling, live instrumental music, New Zealand Sign Language, and spoken English. This piece is performed by a Deaf and hearing cast and designed to be accessible for d/Deaf and hearing audiences.

A daughter sits in an empty bedroom desperately moulding a friend out of bed sheets.
A father sits on the floor of his home, holding his baby girl, whispering ‘everything will be fine’.
The collision of two worlds, two languages, and the pursuit of meeting in the space between.
Seeking connection and meaningful communication, a whole new world explodes from the daughter’s hands, where lines of the imagined and the real start to blur.
A story about love, loss and language, told with physical storytelling, live music, New Zealand Sign Language, and spoken English. This piece is performed by a Deaf and hearing cast and designed to be accessible for d/Deaf and hearing audiences.

The development of this piece has been made possible by funding from the NZSL Board, and the Aotearoa New Zealand tour has been possible thanks to funding from Creative New Zealand. We thank both funding bodies for their support.

Where Our Shadows Meet premiered at the Playhouse Theatre, Kirikiriroa Hamilton, Aotearoa New Zealand in January 2021, and toured to Circa Theatre in Wellington in February 2022, and to Isaac Theatre Royal in Christchurch and Carterton Event Centre in Carterton in 2024.