JCR Productions proudly presents the premiere season of We Remember Wrong, by Jackson Rosie in the Dunedin Fringe Festival 2026.
A daring new work by local playwright and director Jackson Rosie that unearths the violence hidden beneath Aotearoa’s collective memory.
Set in a room with two side-by-side cages... two strangers, Kiwa (a Māori man) and Sophie (a Pākehā woman) awaken under the gaze of a masked man.
Stripped of context, history, and identity, they are forced to rediscover who they are through fragments of distorted propaganda and surveillance.
What begins as a psychological puzzle soon fractures into a confrontation with truth itself. As state-controlled media reframes colonisation as benevolence and identity as criminality, Kiwa and Sophie are driven to question not only what is real, but who benefits from the rewriting of history.
Drawing on Aotearoa’s colonial legacy and Jackson's own journey to familiarise himself with his history, systemic racism, and the weaponization of memory... this play fuses dystopian thriller, dark comedy, and political protest. The story mirrors modern anxieties around misinformation and power – where history is edited, truth becomes unstable, and humanity is tested.
Visceral, urgent, and unflinching, We Remember Wrong challenges audiences to look at the stories we’ve been told – and those we’ve chosen to forget.
memory / observation / identity
jcrproductions.org for more info or dunedinfringe.nz for tickets as of 21.1.26
All images by Grace Basel
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