NZ's Hottest Clown Trio Return to NZ Fringe for Three Nights

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6 February, 2018

New Zealand’s Hottest Clown Trio Return to New Zealand Fringe for Three Nights of Madness

Off the back of a red hot season at Adelaide’s queer, indie theatre hub, RAJOPOLIS, and directed by Australian cult clown director Kimberley Twiner (PO PO MO CO and The Travelling Sisters), New Zealand’s most subversive female clown trio are set to take over BATS for the three final Fringe nights with their totally bonkers show.

Image Credit: Andi Crown Photography

The Scungebags, who are quickly earning a reputation for presenting off the wall gender bending clowning, are set to return to New Zealand Fringe with their lightning-paced, “balls to the wall” (Theatrescenes), rollicking, show Maggot.

The trio were awarded the Adelaide Tour Ready Award at the New Zealand Fringe Festival 2017 and nominated for most promising emerging company.

Get your skates on, hike your tutus up, and take in the deep stench of uber-zany, frantically random, counter-culture sketch.

Founder, Angela Fouhy, says “We like pushing boundaries from the familiar into the absurd and finding humour in the strangest corners. Sometimes things get really weird”. Reviewers have already picked up on the Spice Girl and Ab Fab-esque references in the show, and one compared it to John Waters exclaiming it “has more than a little bit of John Waters in its DNA” (Theatrescenes).

"Had me laughing for days" - Pantograph Punch, “Funny as f***” – David Fane (creator of bro’Town), “Patently brilliant” – Theatreview.

The Scungebags are Elle Wootton, Angela Fouhy and Freya Finch. Elle, Freya, and Angela share performance experience across film, stage, and share training credit with John Bolton, Philippe Gaulier and Giovanni Fusetti.

Venue: BATS Theatre- The Studio, 1 Kent Tce, Te Aro, Wellington

Dates: 22 – 24 March

Time: 9:30pm

Bookings: https://www.fringe.co.nz/programme/event?maggot/16375850-f4f5-47f5-8e92-f2e10480e744/

Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/maggotshow/

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