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A Love Tail
Wing Horn Tails
A love story about human behavior in captivity. She's 'cleaning up our world' taking-out one human at a time. He serves his time for 'accidental murder'. Unbeknownst to each other that one is a feline, the other a hound. They fall in love...more »
When: 23 February – 03 March
Where: BATS Theatre
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Alfonsina
LAB: Research Theatre Company
Alfonsina is a comic depiction of a young Argentinean woman who leaves her family to search for a better life. Alfonsina is the heroine clown who cannot avoid trouble. Escaping the harsh suburbs of Buenos Aires and arriving in downtown Auckland, she finds a cleaning job. All goes well until she is...more »
When: 04 – 06 March
Where: Gryphon Theatre -
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Angel
Glistening Arts
Clown theatre in the tradition of Slava's Snowshow. An angel falls to earth and must find his way back to Heaven. A touching and humorous depiction of the quest for enlightenment brought magically to life by the CircoArts tutor, Olli Ricken, and director, Lucette Hinden (the clinic)...more »
When: 05 – 13 March
Where: BATS Theatre -
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Back/Words
Bare Hunt Collective
From a fresh perspective in verbatim theatre, Bare Hunt Collective shares honest words from real people. Come have a conversation with school kids, your Nana, your neighbour. Candid, revealing, funny and completely human: storytelling at its most direct...more »
When: 17 – 21 February
Where: BATS Theatre -
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Buffoons's Birthday
Liminal Theatre Ltd
A group of playful fools celebrate their leader's birthday in their own grotesque way, performing physical feats for him before giving him the ultimate gift. An original New Zealand physical theatre piece incorporating mask, dance, and scripted drama into a devised performance...more »
When: 19 – 22 February
Where: BATS Theatre -
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For Real
Original Scripts Youth Company
A teen's mind is a chaotic and powerful force. Given no voice nor control, Jess is forced to temporarily consume the audience into her deep psychosis. Fragments that constitute an entire being develop as singular voices, spitting and colliding with unbound intensity...more »
When: 19 – 21 February
Where: Basement Theatre, Toi Whakaari -
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Fractur
Urban Vineyard
Vanja Draganic makes her NZ directorial debut in this exploration of power's effects on ordinary people. Divided into prisoners and guards, the company lived for six days in a rural community hall while researching the show. Fractur is the result. www.urbanvintner.co.nz...more »
When: 13 – 16 February
Where: BATS Theatre -
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Goldilocks and the Three Queers
Short Term Visitor Parking
The makers of Hansel and Gretel are at it again, this time with Goldilocks and the Three Queers, an outrageous musical comedy. Goldilocks is fresh out of her fundamentalist Christian cult in 1970s America when she stumbles upon three heathens just waiting to be converted...more »
When: 11 – 20 February
Where: The Basement @ 39 Dixon St -
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Haimona
Rush Hour Productions
"Every poet is a bit like Maui. Part myth, part reality." Mike Eager explores the myth and reality of "Haimona" in a play based on the poetry of Wellingtonian Simon Williamson, who died in 1999. Williamson's book '25 Cars' is a gift with every ticket...more »
When: 03 – 07 March
Where: Katipo Cafe -
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Inside Out
Skin Deep Productions
Ruby has landed the part of Ophelia. Ophelia goes mad and drowns herself. But Ruby has a secret she needs to keep. What's crazy? Who's not? And what do you do to get through? Yeah -- what would we see if you were turned inside out?...more »
When: 25 – 27 February
Where: Newtown Community and Cultural Centre -
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Irrepressible Urge
Quite Sensible
What would humanity be without stories? From childhood storybooks, to world changing news, religious texts and mindless blogs, stories are inescapable. Quite Sensible explores this irrepressible story-telling urge in a surreal, colourful, physical, playful and provocative devised work. Directed...more »
When: 22 – 25 February
Where: BATS Theatre -
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Jangle
Company Moment-um
A day in the life of Toby, a troubled man fleeing from his Hare Krishna group. A theatrical response to Bill Hammond's painting "Jingle Jangle Morning." Starring Guy Capper. Music by Jhan Lindsay. Script by Mitch Tawhi Thomas. Design -- Jennifer Roshni Lal...more »
When: 14 – 18 February
Where: BATS Theatre -
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Measure for Measure - Bard in the Yard
Butterfly Creek Theatre Troupe
Bursting onto the Fringe for a fifth year, Eastbourne's prize-winning community theatre presents Summer Seaside Shakespeare with one of the Bard's more challenging plays. Funny, raw, powerful and moving, it deals with guilt, innocence, mercy and justice, sexual politics and government...more »
When: 16 – 20 February
Where: Muritai School Yard (inside if wet) -
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Medea Songs
1st Gear Productions
A contemporary musical ancient Greek Tragedy musical. Zeus sits at a table in his downtown Wellington café, watching the mess mortals make of their lives. But must all who begin life in a tragedy remain there? "Many matters the gods bring to surprising ends"...more »
When: 24 – 27 February
Where: Blondini's Lounge, Embassy Theatre -
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Memoirs of Pinafores and Pantyhose
CHERRY BOMB PRODUCTIONS
Memoirs of Pinafores and Pantyhose" takes us on a comical journey through the memories and embellishments of three elderly ex cleaning ladies suffering from dementia. Through dubious stories told to their nursing staff, these Nana's suddenly find themselves as showgirls onstage at the Hotel...more »
When: 25 – 26 February
Where: The Garden Club -
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Pink Lighter
theatrewhack
Jack and Fran live next to Nina and Lance and Steve. They seem like two normal households...until they meet. Jack's terrible, dark secret is found out by his stoner next door neighbours and their lives are changed forever...and all because Fran wouldn't let Jack use her Pink Lighter...more »
When: 01 – 05 March
Where: BATS Theatre -
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Pirates vs. Ninjas
Gypsy Wife Productions
The emergency meeting of the Clans of Freedom has begun. Ninjas, Pirates, Vikings and Gypsies attempt to carve out a treaty. Tempers will flare, blood will be spilt. Passions will rise and vengence will be sought. A vigorous theatrical adventure about love, loyalty, alliance, betrayal and...more »
When: 02 – 15 February
Where: BATS Theatre -
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Ruby Tuesday
Isla Adamson and Josephine Stewart-Tewhiu
The best of the 2009 Auckland Fringe, Ruby Tuesday is an unmissable and hilarious look at 8 misfits on one unforgettable high school day. Don't miss the self-devised bittersweet comedy which Theatreview called "A little gem." Latecomers will get...more »
When: 03 – 13 March
Where: BATS Theatre -
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SALON
site-specific.co.nz
SALON is the prequel to the multi-award winning site-specific work HOTEL. Set in a real hair salon to a 100% NZ music soundscape, SALON explores the worlds of fashion and style, gossip and intrigue. Only 13 patrons will experience SALON each performance -- BOOKINGS VITAL. Commissioned by...more »
When: 19 February – 06 March
Where: Fallen from Grace -
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Sometimes I Don't Like Yellow
My Accomplice
One sixth of the population is dead. It is pineapples' fault. The story of the fall and rise of Peter Blouse, monomaniac and pineapple magnate, told in the most glorious of theatrical traditions. Killer robots! Explosions! Trips to the moon! Tropical fruit!...more »
When: 26 February – 02 March
Where: BATS Theatre -
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Sun Drugs
Blind
Australian artist Blind presents a grimy teen romance set in the flash-flooded streets of Bubonic Plague-era Manila. All the sweeping drama of The English Patient compacted into 25 minutes and injected rather than watched. Totally free and includes DIY vibrator-making workshop...more »
When: 03 – 06 March
Where: The Pit Bar at BATS Theatre -
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Sunday Roast by Thomas Sainsbury
The Moving Theatre Company
2 Actors. 8 Characters. The Giles Family invite you to join them for a very special dinner...From the writer of "The Mall," "LUV" and "Loser" and the producers of "Mr. Marmalade" comes a comedy about love, sibling rivalry and very sharp knives...more »
When: 01 – 06 March
Where: SEEyD Space, Te Whaea National Dance and Drama Centre -
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The Black Hole Menagerie
The Fannywaterman Collective
A science fiction musical comedy of galactic proportions. Watch as Scarlett and T2500 android sing and dance their way through the cosmos. Will they be crushed at the centre of a black hole or will they be thrust into a new dimension and a new life?...more »
When: 25 – 28 February
Where: BATS Theatre -
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The Immortals by Martin Amis
Miracle Pictures presents a Dilletante Production
"He was here before the beginning and will still be here after the end." Dan Slevin plays "The Immortal" in this unusual adaptation of a story by acclaimed author Martin Amis. (Taken from Einstein's Monsters © 1987. All rights reserved). http://www.miracle-pictures.com/immortals...more »
When: 11 – 27 February
Where: The Pit Bar at BATS Theatre -
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Undergrowth
Kristin Herman and Peter Willis
An experimental theatre adaptation of Hansel and Gretel retold for adults. This original collaboration by artist-storyteller Kristin Herman and musician-composer Peter Willis uses spoken word, movement, found object art, and music (piano, song, sound objects) to create an enchanting, hypnotic rite...more »
When: 19 – 21 February
Where: Wellington Performing Arts Centre, Studio 1 -
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Wannabe
A Little Bit Silly Productions
Still a tween at heart? A chatter-rings pro? Rediscover Girl Power (and other superpowers) through the eyes of a Nintendo generation male in this new solo show. R18 Venue. Parent/Caregiver required for underage attendees...more »
When: 24 – 27 February
Where: The Fringe Bar -
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Who's Neat? You!
Happy Healthy You!
Everyone is special, right? Climb aboard our mobile classroom to join us in asking: what if you're just not? Set in a five tonne truck, this disenchanting black comedy is brought to you by Alex Lodge (Measure for Measure), Lucy O'Brien (Postal), Ralph McCubbin Howell (Romeo and Juliet)...more »
When: 17 February – 05 March
Where: The Happy Healthy Hangout (A truck outside BATS Theatre)
