Eliza Sanders' Manage Your Expectations
She starts with a simple task: tell you everything that will happen in the show, so you can decide if you would like to see it. But nothing is ever that simple.
As caveats, contexts, claimers and disclaimers pile up, bits of personal history spill across the stage (her history and yours) and it begins to feel like nothing will ever be explainable again. But just as it’s about to shatter, performance maverick Eliza Sanders scoops up and transforms what seemed like a mess of muddled moments, into a series of movements and images so bursting with meaning they hum in your bones.
Runner-up Best In Fringe, Most Innovative, WINNER Outstanding Solo Performance, NZ Fringe 24. WINNER Best Performer, Whangārei Fringe '24.
A funny, deeply personal journey through history, heartbreak and selfhood.
Presented by: House of Sand
House of Sand is the brainchild of sibling creative partnership Charley Sanders and Eliza Sanders. We playfully blend art forms to create embodied experiences for audiences and artists, experiences that are care based and trauma informed. We turn ten in 2025! We’re so thankful to be celebrating a decade of independent, care-based, performance, movement, dance theatre event creation and the many funding bodies, donors, presenting partners, festivals, artists and audiences around Australia and Aotearoa who are our sustenance and our extended artistic family.
You may remember shows including Pedal & Castles (Ad Fringe 18), REVOLT. SHE SAID. REVOLT AGAIN. (Holden St 18), Welcome The Bright World (STCSA, Queens Theatre 18), all h0urs (Syd Fringe Commission 19), That Was Friday (Belco Arts 22)
Reviews & Fringe Feed Reacts
Aesthetically gorgeous, consummately crafted and choreographed - a joyful interpretation of our struggle to be the best that we can be. - David Cronin, The Clothesline
likely the most visually and verbally innovative show you’ll see all Fringe - James Murphy, Scenestr
Eliza contorts comedy, contemporary dance and theatre into a genre bending performance...which leaves you spellbound and ruminating - Mal Hamenth, Mindshare