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New Zealand Fringe Festival - Latest News [Page 9]

Getting Slammed - Raw Poetry Slam III

Monday, 11 February 2013, 4:54 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

Knockout performance poetry returns to the Fringe Bar stage with Raw Poetry Slam III - Return of the Slam . More >>

Put It In My Blowhole

Monday, 11 February 2013, 3:38 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

Hamish is from Seatoun, Vee is from the sea. A man and a mermaid will never win traditional couple of the year, but these two want a baby and nothing will stop them. Not family. Not society. Not even biology. More >>

NeverBefore: A Colony for Urban Change

Monday, 11 February 2013, 1:02 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

Our times are complex enough by themselves, sometimes even overwhelming, and it doesn’t help that the party has been crashed by dirty old Impending Doom & his grubby mate Global Crisis. No one seems to have invited them and they certainly are Gloomy Gusses. More >>

My Boyfriend Got A Beatle Haircut

Monday, 11 February 2013, 12:55 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

A romping music filled twisted comedy based on Wellington's own 1960’s pop-sensation Rochelle Vinsen turned ‘The Hutt’s got talent’ judge. The time of the first T.V, Beatlemania, underground coffee bars, toasted sandwich dates, shotgun weddings, ... More >>

My Beautiful Disaster

Monday, 11 February 2013, 12:53 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

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Secrets

Monday, 11 February 2013, 12:44 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

As part of Fringe Festival 2013, Wellington Improvisation Troupe and world-leading American improviser Bobbi Block present the New Zealand premiere of Secrets . More >>

Minksie and Ron explore the Gap

Monday, 11 February 2013, 12:42 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

Anita Moorjani’s book of her near death experience is part of the massive movement of modern spirituality spearheaded by Deepak Choprah, Eckhart Tolle and Dr Wayne Dyer. ‘Minksie and Ron explore the Gap’ by Gina Vanessi toys with the ideas of ... More >>

Madam X and Mister Q

Monday, 11 February 2013, 12:39 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

As part of the 2013 Fringe Festival, Hard Sleeper Theatre Company will offer up a twisted stage adaptation of an avant-garde Chinese novel. Madam X and Mister Q is a wild and terrifyingly funny examination of rumour and scandal in an insular neighbourhood. ... More >>

Little Town Liars - A new musical by Joshua Hopton Stewart

Thursday, 7 February 2013, 1:24 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

Be ready to embrace the hilarious and innovative musical that will open 2013’s Fringe Festival in Wellington . From the theatre company who brought you the sell-out show, Society Slump Superstars , Fresh Dada presents Little Town Liars , written ... More >>

Light Sleepers’ Wake

Thursday, 7 February 2013, 1:19 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

Light Sleepers' Wake invites you into a smoky, dingy, bourbon soaked bar that can only be found by the city's loners. Drawing on the work of Edward Hopper, Tom Waits and T.S. Elliot, the show explores what it means to be twenty-something, drunk, and ... More >>

Jealousy and Greed – the story of Alistair Macbeth

Thursday, 7 February 2013, 1:15 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

Alistair is an ambitious young man who believes he is destined to climb the career ladder. His girlfriend is equally keen for Alistair to be successful, so together they plot the demise of his boss (and father). After the murder takes place, the ... More >>

Home

Thursday, 7 February 2013, 1:14 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

The Hilarious Comedy About How I Nearly Killed Myself / A Play About How I Nearly Died But Didn't Then Learned a Lot About Life Afterwards by Freya Desmarais More >>

God Knows

Thursday, 7 February 2013, 1:10 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

God Knows is a live discovery channel, replaying a Neanderthal community against today’s corporate world. How far have we come? Let’s find out, God Knows will offer an hour of laughter, surprise and instinctual pleasure. More >>

Follow, Follow, Follow

Thursday, 7 February 2013, 12:47 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

Twelve years ago, six children were placed in a secure environment without outside input. Now sixteen, they’ve grown up in a behavioural vacuum where there are no adults to tell them ” it's not sensible to wear jandals on a wet day”, to “sit ... More >>

Dusky Maidens and Noble Savages

Thursday, 7 February 2013, 12:44 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

Dusky Maidens and Noble Savages evoke smokey, seductive scenes of pre-colonial european-featured, semi-naked natives inviting all sorts of impropriety. Fast forward to 2013 and modern day Dusky Maidens and Noble Savages speak back to that imagery. Hard! An evening ... More >>

Double-Barrelled Slingshot

Thursday, 7 February 2013, 12:40 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

Double-Bill of: Idiots Guide to the Family Meeting & Audition More >>

Definition of Me

Thursday, 7 February 2013, 12:37 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

Definition of Me , a play devised by local students, premieres as part of the New Zealand Fringe Festival on 4th March. Definition of Me is written and performed by Alexander Sparrow, Stevie Hancox-Monk, George Fenn and Charlie Pleasants . Sparrow ... More >>

Cannonball

Thursday, 7 February 2013, 11:08 am | New Zealand Fringe Festival

Winner of the Tiki Tour Ready Award at the 2012 Melbourne Fringe Festival, Green Room Award winner Emily Taylor (Impro Melbourne, Is This Your Life, Hello You, Spontaneous Broadway) brings her particular brand of black comedy to New Zealand in this premiere ... More >>

Buddypalfriend

Thursday, 7 February 2013, 10:55 am | New Zealand Fringe Festival

Buddypalfriend 2-5 March, 7pm Meow Café, 9 Edward Street, Wellington Bookings: www.eventfinder.co.nz $13/8 More >>

Whales, For Your Future Guidance and ‘Beep Test*

Thursday, 7 February 2013, 10:53 am | New Zealand Fringe Festival

The beep sounds, the game is on and it’s all go for Wellington theatre collective Binge Culture! Veterans of NZ Fringe Festivals, the collective will present three new works in Fringe 2013. Known for subversive and interactive performance art, Binge ... More >>

   

 
 
 
 
 

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