When footage of a 6pm news anchor misbehaving goes viral, both her network and the competition have less than 24 hours to package the story.

Whose version will the public believe – and more importantly, whose will they tune in to?

As a real-time deadline races towards them, journos, presenters and executives on both sides are tested as the editors stitch together the night’s footage live on stage.

Bring your smartphone and be part of the action. A black comedy with a thriller edge that will change the way you watch the news.

When the shaking stops what’s left? Fault Lines exposes the intimate human response to natural disaster.

Led by Christchurch locals; director Sara Brodie, assistant choreographer Ross McCormack and designer Mark McEntyre and created with the dancers of the Leshan Dance Company of southern China who experienced the devastating Sichuan quake of 2008, Fault Lines offers a private view of what it is to survive in the aftermath of a quake.

Hauntingly beautiful and revealing the strange, sometimes humorous and fundamental way an earthquake affects those remaining – a rare chance to witness a stirring tribute to the resilience of the human spirit.

Featuring original music by Gareth Farr and Gao Ping recorded by the CSO. Fault Lines had its world premiere at Melbourne Festival in October 2012.

Presented by Melbourne Festival and Christchurch Arts Festival in Association with Playking Foundation.

This high energy, enchanting circus show mixes jaw-dropping acrobatic skills with a jet-propelled urban energy.

Montreal’s Les 7 Doigts de la Main presents circus on a human scale using everything that comes to hand from hoop tumbling to freestyle moves as the performers of Traces move effortlessly from one act to another – soaring, dancing, somersaulting, jumping, springing, balancing and catapulting in limitless variations backed by visual projections, music and sheer physical prowess.

Traces is fun for the whole family and will leave you breathless and wanting more.

Leave your everyday life behind and enter the intoxicating world of CANTINA. Discover a 1930's underground cantina-cabaret scorching with decadent passion.

A showcase of heart-stopping acrobatic skills set in a dusty world of vaudeville and seduction where the line between pleasure and pain is increasingly blurred.
Seducing audiences in London, Sydney and Auckland this year, CANTINA brings its cocktail of skill, danger and sensuality to Christchurch.

Featuring an outstanding cast of circus performers backed by live music, CANTINA is the dark chocolate of cabaret - a little bit naughty, a little bit nice and you'll long for more every night.