The performance took place underneath the Wellington waterfront, with the audience in paddle boats.
The company won a number of awards for the production and attracted significant local and national media attention.
[7][8][9][10][11] In 2013 A Tempest off Matiu-Somes Island, an adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest held in a chartered ferry which took audience members to the island and in a large animal quarantine station abandoned in the 1980s.
[12][13] In 2014 the company mounted a return season of "A Tempest off Matiu-Somes Island".
It was made public in January 2014 that the company had joined with the New Zealand Department of Conservation and the Kaitiaki Board to secure a 10-year concession to stage theatrical events and performances on Matiu-Somes Island during the summer months.