Sarah Axcell
Scriptwriting and Libretto
Selected Projects
Seedgrown ~ A Circus Tale
Play for Theatre
Written and Directed by Sarah Axcell
Musical Score by Eric Biddington
First performed at Canterbury University
Under the carnival-striped big top, the aging ringmaster is unwound by dementia, and the sawdust ring descends into a battleground between the Auguste and White clowns.
The River
SATB choir and orchestra score
Written for Max Stewart and the Waikato Youth Orchestra and Choir.
Music by Eric Biddington.
Libretto by Sarah Rea
A libretto celebrating the Waikato River, the longest river in New Zealand, rising on the eastern slopes of Mount Ruapehu, joining the Tongariro River system and flowing through Lake Taupō, New Zealand's largest lake.
Ectopia
Play for Theatre
Written and directed by Sarah Axcell
First performed at Canterbury University and Sydney University.
Invitation by Jim Lawson (Artistic Director at Monash University, Melbourne) to include Ectopia in the Brave New Works season at Monash University, and the Melbourne Fringe Festival.
A play exploring a teenage's impending pregnancy and the hive within that connects us all.
Bacon
Short Film
Written, storyboarded and directed by
Sarah Axcell and Michael Adams
Experimental film.