Pride Elevates

Pride Elevates at Q Loft

This year, Pride Elevates takes the stage at the intimate Q Loft, showcasing three back-to-back five-night seasons filled with sell-out potential and a lineup that promises to leave audiences captivated. As Auckland Pride’s dedicated performance program, Pride Elevates continues to raise the bar, featuring some of the most anticipated voices in Takatāpui and Rainbow art today.

Featuring a lineup of bold voices like Brady Peeti, whose rock-fueled "What Happened To Mary-Anne?" electrifies with unapologetic drama, Pride Elevates invites audiences into the heart of queer performance. Become threaded into Xin Ji’s body-based storytelling in Body Story and experience Jonjon’s Mā, a powerful exploration of chosen family, responsibility and leadership. With past shows touring internationally and rave reviews from across the arts scene, Pride Elevates stands as a cornerstone of Auckland Pride, offering audiences an unforgettable close-up with groundbreaking queer artistry.

What Happened To Mary-Anne?
Feb 11-15 2025

Brady Peeti, a heartfelt, humorous journey through rock & roll and resilience.

"What Happened to Mary-Anne?" is the story of trans woman Mary-Anne and her insatiable adoration for the power of rock. It is electric! It is dramatic! It is loud and sometimes obnoxious! It is dirty and vulgar and everything you want at a rock and roll concert AND MORE!!! Featuring the musical stylings from rock and roll legends throughout history such as Stevie Nicks and Kiss! Audiences will be welcomed to come and fulfil their rock star fantasy as they get caught in Mary-Anne's web.

Mary-Anne has a lot on her plate. She is the youngest of 8 adult siblings, a night nurse, caretaker of her bid ridden father and a god fearing trans woman. Her ultra conservative siblings tolerate her because she runs around for the family, babysits the children, tends to her father’s every need and never complains. However, the family are in for a surprise when they find out that Mary-Anne rocks out to Led Zeppelin at night, belting secular music while her ailing father sleeps. They’ll be even more stunned when they find out she sings at the Pig Bucket every night. But they’ll never forgive her when they find out she’s been dragging their father to a dirty dive bar at night to do so… Watch as Mary-Anne slowly unravels her truth about how she lost herself only to find herself once again.

Body Story
Feb 18-22 2025
Xin Ji, a thought-provoking physical theatre piece delving into personal narratives and physicalities problematising and resolving the relationship to self and collective through the body.  

Mā
Feb 25 - March 1 2025

"Mā" is a poignant devised theatre and performance poetry work that delves into themes of chosen family, motherhood, and identity. This triple hander is set against the backdrop of diasporic Samoan life, the performance reflects on the intersectionality of queer identity and the nurturing essence of motherhood. "Mā" is both a tribute to the artist's own mother and a powerful expression of chosen family bonds within the queer community, embracing Aiga filifiliga (Chosen Family) as central to its narrative.

“This project is a consolidative ode of affirmation to all trans fa’afafine living within the diaspora context, politics and place of Aotearoa. It highlights the relation in all our shared experiences and existences between the dualities of traditional families and chosen families, how these two structures co-exist together and from that how we foster fruitful connection between the two displayed through art.”

Stay tuned for more details and ticket information