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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 >>

Affinity

Thursday, 7 February 2013, 10:50 am | New Zealand Fringe Festival

These questions drive the mystery and tension of this tight, fast paced drama which twists and turns from the apparently real to the definitely surreal. The room in question in the box office area of Downstage Theatre – being used as a theatre ... More >>

A Cry Too Far From Heaven

Thursday, 7 February 2013, 10:48 am | New Zealand Fringe Festival

She was convicted for infanticide in 1895 and became the only woman ever hanged in New Zealand. He was a young lad from Bluff who was shot for desertion in World War I. Now Minnie Dean and Victor Spencer share their stories with you—just hours before ... More >>

A Collection of Noises

Thursday, 7 February 2013, 10:45 am | New Zealand Fringe Festival

A Collection of Noises , Alice Sherwood King’s one woman play, premieres at The Fringe Bar on March 1st as part of the New Zealand Fringe Festival. Alice Sherwood King has performed twice in the national SGCNZ UOSWSF and takes on the role of a ... More >>

[title of show]: Four friends. One original musical.

Thursday, 7 February 2013, 10:44 am | New Zealand Fringe Festival

Energy Theatre is proud to present the New Zealand premiere of [title of show] as part of the New Zealand Fringe Festival. This Tony Award-nominated musical is “perfect for anyone who’s dared to dream that they can actually get paid for doing what ... More >>

When Bertha Sings

Tuesday, 5 February 2013, 2:41 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

Bertha and her buddies are the true music-makers at Kapiti's 'Most Amazing Chocolate Factory' - but sonic artists Christine White and Jason Wright will be there for a week in February to give them a bit of a hand. More >>

To Walk, To See, To Breathe by Yukari Kaihori

Tuesday, 5 February 2013, 2:35 pm | New Zealand Fringe Festival

We are pleased to present the opening of painting exhibition “ To Walk, To See, To Breathe”By Yukari Kaihori , on view from late February 2013 at Thistle Hall Gallery. This exhibition is Yukari’s second solo show in Wellington, following ... More >>

   

 
 
 
 
 

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