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Fringe LIBATION LOUNGE

Friday, 10 January 2014, 1:37 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

Libation; /lbe()n/; noun 1. an act of pouring a liquid as a sacrifice (as to a deity) 2. an act or instance of drinking often ceremoniously More >>

Sci Fi Love

Friday, 10 January 2014, 1:18 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

Sci Fi Love takes place at the flat of Paul. Paul is human, but shares the stage with a vampire, an android, and … Sandra. Watch as they attempt to untangle their ridiculously messy love lives! More >>

Riding in Cars with (Mostly Straight) Boys

Friday, 10 January 2014, 1:17 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

Riding in Cars with (Mostly Straight) Boys is just your average gay-straight bromantic comedy with a dark twist. It’s a new play by award winning playwright Sam Brooks, coming to a carpark near you! More >>

Necropolis

Friday, 10 January 2014, 1:15 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

What happens in death? Where do you go? Necropolis: the city of the dead, in this play the journey of a newly deceased girl is displayed, and we watch as the world unfolds around her and she begins to bloom. More >>

Memoria

Friday, 10 January 2014, 1:14 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

Memoria is a physically charged, devised work. Exploring the storytelling and mythology of times long past, as well as the relevant truth that fiction can hold. More >>

4 Tests and 1 Dood

Friday, 10 January 2014, 1:11 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

Four new works. We are emerging artists wanting to get closer to creating the kind of work we want to create. Innovative, interactive, incorporating technology, and inviting the audience to explore their role. More >>

Welcome Home

Friday, 10 January 2014, 1:04 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

Escape into a Mexican oasis in the heart of Newtown and be transported into extraordinary everyday in an explosion of Aerial Yoga, music, dance, lights, and circus. Celebrate themes of life and love under the stars through a performance fusing art and architecture, ... More >>

Velcro City:

Friday, 10 January 2014, 12:53 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

Velcro City is a live-action cartoon following the lives of citizens in a city held together by hooks and hoops. Get set for a visual and comedic feast, with the entire set and costumes drawn in wicked Crayola felt-tips. Two time winners of ‘Best Comedy’ ... More >>

'tut': A Possum Walks into a Tomb

Friday, 10 January 2014, 12:50 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

Writer, performer, and comedian Alice May Connolly's ( Vampimple, Gunplay, We Just Want People to Like Us ) new theatre work, 'tut', will be performed during the 2014 Wellington Fringe Festival, 26 Feb - 1 Mar, 7pm, People's Cinema 57 Manners Street. ... More >>

Traces. Ghosts From The Archives.

Friday, 10 January 2014, 12:47 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

'Traces' will be an exciting, experiential piece of promenade theatre developed especially for the Fringe. Taking place in several rooms and spaces below ground level in 'The Royal', 'Traces' will incorporate live music, puppetry, Victorian shadow puppetry, ... More >>

Magicians Exposed as Time Travellers

Friday, 10 January 2014, 12:43 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

Ever wondered how magicians perform their miracles? Nopera Whitley and Niko Nash-Krippner are no ordinary illusionists, and claim to perform their feats through manipulation of the time-space continuum. More >>

This Year I Will:

Friday, 10 January 2014, 12:37 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

This Year I Will: explores living in the moment vs. planning for the future. This enchanting one woman show follows Zoey’s quest to find the perfect balance while the never ending curveballs of life keep changing her mind. Join Zoey on the journey ... More >>

The Robot Monologues

Friday, 10 January 2014, 12:33 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

The Robot Monologues (Squidwig Productions) – THEATRE Check www.fringe.co.nz for venue, time and date details FREE / KOHA When Astrid’s parents are killed, she discovers that she’s actually a robot surrogate daughter – and now her parents ... More >>

The Wooden Actors Present... The Marriage

Friday, 10 January 2014, 12:26 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

The Marriage is an outrageously chaotic puppet comedy about the Brown family who want the best for their daughters’ wedding. They desperately want to be the envy of all their friends and ensure that their new son-in-law, a wealthy Auckland businessman, ... More >>

The Dreamer: It’s time to meet the monsters under your bed

Friday, 10 January 2014, 12:23 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

This play addresses the subjectivity of reality. A Dreamer is thrown through different states of reality, different times, and different places. As she journeys, she meets a number of characters – a teddy bear, some dragons, her mother, a burglar. Though ... More >>

The Bookbinders

Friday, 10 January 2014, 12:20 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

A bookbinder should never do anything that cannot be undone. But left alone, leather crumbles, and pages turn to dust. Stories begin to unravel… From the makers of The Road the Wasn’t There (nominated for three 2013 Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards ... More >>

The Bloody Benders

Friday, 10 January 2014, 12:19 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

What’s a love-struck teenage serial killer to do, when your next victim seems to be the love of your life? And on top of that, your mother talks too much, your dad doesn’t talk enough and your brother hangs on every word you say. Some things are ... More >>

The 7 Person Chair Pyramid High Wire Act

Friday, 10 January 2014, 12:17 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

A play about the Yeti, Charles Darwin, and electromagnetic radiation. “Cogently playful, sweetly surreal… exquisitely made and elegantly presented” The Santa Fe Reporter; “Top 10 Productions” Montreal Fringe; “Like arts and crafts on ... More >>

Suri vs Shiloh

Thursday, 9 January 2014, 1:51 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

Growing up in today’s hyperpublic world is tough, even when the whole world doesn’t know your name. Suri Cruise and Shiloh Jolie-Pitt speak out for the first time about life as only they know it. More >>

Shu

Thursday, 9 January 2014, 1:45 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

It is a solo piece of physical theatre about a quirky little box-headed character called Shu. The piece has no speech, instead utilising movement, sound, and lighting to tell the story. The piece is written and performed by Laura Gaudin, with stage ... More >>

   

 
 
 
 
 

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