Tröll

— A lo-fi wi-fi fable.

It's 1998. Otto is twelve but online he's thirteen and he's pretty sure he gets away with it. He lives with his mum, dad, and sister, a mysterious Icelandic granny, and an ancient malevolent troll that's lurking in the walls.

From Trick of the Light Theatre comes a lo-fi wi-fi fable. Tröll combines storytelling, music and puppetry into an uncanny tale from the digital age.

Written and performed by Ralph McCubbin Howell, directed by Charlotte Bradley and Hannah Smith, this darkly comic one-man show brings the innovative staging and intricate narrative that enchanted audiences with The Bookbinder into the digital world.  As smartphones become light sources, laptops transform into skyscrapers, and charger cords morph into puppets, it tells a story both mythic and modern in the vein of Stranger Things.

• Running time 55 mins (no interval)

Premiered February 2017

NZ Fringe
An old flat in Aro Valley,
Te Whanganui-a-Tara
(Wellington), NZ