| Arsenic & Old Lace |
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| Arsenic and Old Lace tells the story of the elderly Brewster sisters – kind, generous and genteel ladies who also happen to be serial killers. We also meet their nephews: Teddy, who thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt; Jonathan, sinister and deranged; and Mortimer whose grip on his sanity is loosening with each startling revelation about the other members of his family. We also meet other characters such as Elaine, Mortimer’s fiancé; Elaine’s father; the superintendent of a sanitarium; and a number of police officers. |
| Bouncers |
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| It's Friday night, it's club night - time for bouncers to come alive!
Regarded as the “Mousetrap of the Fringe”, this outrageous and hilarious parody of the contemporary nightclub scene, presents four brutish bouncers portraying over 20 different characters inviting us out for a night on the town. We meet giggly girls, lads on the make, Hooray Henrys, pogo-ing punks, and a smooth-talking DJ, all set against the tatty, glamour, flashing lights and pulsating beat of the dance floor.
It’s a club you’ll never forget – and what makes this play even more entertaining is that all of the characters are played by…men!
* Please note, this play carries a strong language warning!
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| Bouncers |
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| Synopsis
It's Friday night, it's club night - time for bouncers to come alive!
Regarded as the “Mousetrap of the Fringe”, this outrageous and hilarious parody of the contemporary nightclub scene, presents four brutish bouncers portraying over 20 different characters inviting us out for a night on the town. We meet giggly girls, lads on the make, Hooray Henrys, pogo-ing punks, and a smooth-talking DJ, all set against the tatty, glamour, flashing lights and pulsating beat of the dance floor.
It’s a club you’ll never forget – and what makes this play even more entertaining is that all of the characters are played by…men!
* Please note, this play carries a strong language warning!
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| Natural Causes |
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| Acclaimed by the UK national press at its premiere as "a highly original black comedy thriller, full of mistaken identities, hilarious consequences and some great laughs".
Vincent is a professional suicide merchant. He has been summoned by Walter Bryce and mistakenly assumes that his potion is for Walter's consumption. Eventually it becomes clear that Walter's wife Celia is the client, or is she? Why are her suicide letters typed and unsigned? Several attempts to do away with various characters result in multiple poisonings of a rubber plant. Will anyone actually drink the potion? |
| Auditions - Mother & Fathers |
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| This play was a huge hit in 1975, becoming one of New Zealand's most commercially successful plays. It's about the perfect marriage: yuppies Bernard and Sally have everything money can buy. Except a baby. It seems Sally is infertile. Bernard has ruled out adoption (no telling what sort of genes package you'd be getting) so, sacrificing sort of chap that he is, he's advertising for a surrogate mother to carry his child. Skint but fertile Geraldine answers the advert, dragging along her reluctant husband Terry. A fee is agreed, a contract drawn up, Sally acquiescent . . .
Oh, and one last thing: artificial insemination is too clinical, so Bernard is willing to do the hot blooded thing. The tangled quartet is soon engulfed in a 'procreational shambles' with twists of plot, situations bizarre and uproarious. |