If you're looking for exciting new ideas about things that matter - on TV, on film, even on cutting-edge web-series - you're probably looking in the wrong place. Independent theatre is where it's at right now, and it seems to be buzzing. Case in point, a new one-woman show that's about to play at Auckland's Basement, and then Wellington's Bats. It's called Vanilla Miraka, Hayley Sproull's personal story of what she calls her "cultural cluelessness". It's directed by the tireless independent theatre queen Jo Randerson. Lynn Freeman asks Jo and Hayley what they're exploring in the show: