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New Zealand Fringe Festival - Latest News [Page 23]

Footnote Perforum at the Fringe

Friday, 16 February 2007, 11:25 am | New Zealand Fringe Festival

Once again Footnote Dance brings its unique Perforum Programme to the fantastic Fringe festival. Share the insights and ideas that form the process of making new New Zealand dance and visit the studio where the imagination takes flight..... The choreographers ... More >>

Fringe @ The Gryphon

Friday, 16 February 2007, 10:38 am | New Zealand Fringe Festival

Multi fringe award winners Baggage Co-op celebrates a 10 year association with the Fringe by taking over the Gryphon Theatre for its biggest ever Fringe production. Two main shows, an art exhibit, one off poetry and storytelling events, plus special ... More >>

ROARski’s Wonderful World of the Carnivalesque!

Friday, 16 February 2007, 10:32 am | New Zealand Fringe Festival

Art emerges from the underworld with a troupe of Wellington’s finest artists and makers. Satisfy your curiosity…for art which goes far beyond white walls. ROAR! gallery brings together some of Wellington’s finest and most quirky makers in a ... More >>

Jamming on the Edge

Friday, 16 February 2007, 10:29 am | New Zealand Fringe Festival

Jamming on the Edge gives musicians and vocalists the chance to be an integral part of the 2007 Fringe Festival. During the Festival on Wednesday nights the Bluenote Bar’s successful Jam music session which has been running for 9 years now, is opened ... More >>

12 Angry Men

Friday, 16 February 2007, 10:25 am | New Zealand Fringe Festival

The Alien Nation of the law is explored through a quest for truth as twelve jurors fight discrimination, blind prejudice, alienation from the justice system and each other for the life of a boy who stands charged with the murder of his own father ... More >>

A Brief History of Everything in the Sky

Friday, 16 February 2007, 10:21 am | New Zealand Fringe Festival

Observational comedy takes on a new meaning in the 2007 Wellington Fringe Festival when popular local comedians Matt Elliott and Mike Bodnar look to the heavens for comedy inspiration. In what may well be a world comedy first, the duo - who had a ... More >>

Sensational

Thursday, 15 February 2007, 3:46 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

Sensational is a highly charged examination of six characters and the way their senses lead them into the arms of others; whether it be for a life time or just until the police arrive. More >>

The Pecking Order

Thursday, 15 February 2007, 3:41 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

Pigeons as a metaphor for the downtrodden of society? This new work premiering at the Fringe 07 has a mood which is blatantly confrontational, set to disrupt the general comfort zone and ruffle some feathers. More >>

Scratch ‘n’ Fly

Thursday, 15 February 2007, 3:38 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

This duo will land in Wellington but probably not without trouble. After trying to cross the Cook Strait in an old fridge and flying over it in a ladder biplane, they have finally opted for the Interislander. More >>

The Return of the Lonesome Buckwhips

Thursday, 15 February 2007, 11:20 am | New Zealand Fringe Festival

The Lonesome Buckwhips are back on land and back on tour as part of the 2007 Fringe Festival. An ill-fated honeymoon aboard the Chevron oil tanker Condoleezza Rice resulted in newlyweds Arty and Miri Buckwhip taking an unintentional dip in the Gulf of Mexico. More >>

A Man Walks into a Bar

Wednesday, 14 February 2007, 5:19 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

A man and a woman duel and drink, a dog is kicked and someone looses and eye. Is this a bar? Or an audience in waiting? From the writer who brought you ‘The Underarm’; ‘A Man Walks into a Bar’ is David Geary’s latest showcase of talent. More >>

Hot Pink Bits

Wednesday, 14 February 2007, 5:14 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

Whatever happened to Divine Brown? Can a phone sex operator get RSI? Do people really have sex through a pizza? Frustrated you can’t look any of this up on your work computer? Then Hot Pink Bits is the show for you. More >>

Sound Marks

Wednesday, 14 February 2007, 4:56 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

Wellington sound editors Dayton Lekner and Stephen Gallagher are the SoundNerds. Their new project for this year’s Fringe Festival is SOUND MARKS: every day sounds of the capital city recorded by the duo and broadcast over the airwaves every weekday ... More >>

Wild Lines

Wednesday, 14 February 2007, 4:50 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

What relationship do you have with your laundry basket? A jungle lurks beneath our domestic lives and who better to hang it on the line than 12 local women and their words. More >>

Paul Forrest: Artist at work

Wednesday, 14 February 2007, 4:46 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

If you’re curious by nature then you won’t be able to resist taking advantage of this rare opportunity to visit one of the most vibrant and light filled artists studios in Wellington. To top that off the artist will be working away at the easel ... More >>

Dance Floor Emergency

Wednesday, 14 February 2007, 4:21 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

Too many she jays Real hot bitches Fringe DANCE FLOOR EMERGENCY This Sat 17th Feb from 10pm-late The San Francisco Bath House Wellington $5 More >>

Organised chaos hits the streets

Wednesday, 14 February 2007, 2:13 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

With Fringe 07 now in full swing, the streets of Wellington have come alive. More >>

Fricnic to host ‘world’s biggest uke-off’ attempt

Monday, 12 February 2007, 2:17 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

Fricnic, the Fringe Festival’s picnic with a twist, will take a crack at the record books this week when it hosts an attempt for the world record ukulele sing-along this Saturday, February 17 in Wellington. More >>

Battle of WITs

Saturday, 10 February 2007, 4:05 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

The knives are out and their wits have been sharpened as the Wellington Improvisation Troupe (WIT) do Battle in FRINGE 2007. WIT unleashes a full arsenal of improvised stories, songs and sagas into the suburbs, with the battle grounds for these epic ... More >>

Spartacus R in 'Octophonic'

Thursday, 8 February 2007, 12:49 am | New Zealand Fringe Festival

"I am completely musically 'turned on' by Spartacus R. Their music is is well crafted and intricately sincere. Fresh, contemporary retro, and completely unpredictable... Beautiful." More >>

   

 
 
 
 
 

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