APOLLO 13: Mission Control is an interactive theatre show about NASA's failed Apollo 13 mission.
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The show premiered in October 2008 at BATS Theatre[1][2] in Wellington, New Zealand and has toured Hamilton and Auckland in New Zealand. It returned to Wellington for a season at the New Zealand International Arts Festival in 2010 and embarked on an Australian tour beginning at the Sydney Opera House.[3]
The show tells the story from the point of view of Mission Control. One hundred audience members are seated behind working computer consoles and are allowed to flick the switches, use the working telephones and interact with the actors. The rest of the audience are seated in "The Press Gallery" and are able to hear the astronauts through headphones attached to their seats. The astronauts perform their part of the show in a command module in another room in the theatre. Each night they are joined by an audience member as the "guest" astronaut and their performances are displayed on two large screens at the front of the stage and on smaller TV monitors at the consoles.[4]