New play puts Kiwi culture in the spotlight

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16 May 2007
For immediate release
Attn: Arts Editor

LandLies

BATS theatre
29 May – 2 June

New play puts Kiwi culture in the spotlight

Picket Fence Productions premieres its new play LandLies at BATS Theatre this month.

LandLies puts modern day New Zealand under the microscope; exploring what it is to be a kiwi in the real estate-randy, designer Swanndri-wearing, iPod toting country we call home.

Moving with broadband speed from the sweaty changing room of the local gym to a small camping ground on the east coast, to the boardroom of a multi-million dollar Realty company, Landlies explores our relationship to the land, our peers and our ‘assets’.

LandLies was inspired by a growing concern about the increasing sale of New Zealand’s coastal land and has developed into a humorous and bold romp through many aspects of contemporary New Zealand culture.

Directed by Jessie Alsop, the work has been devised by the entire cast - Amanda Baker, Ana Brothers, Jade Daniels and Julie Noever - and reflects their varied politics as well as their combined interest in entertaining, intelligent story telling.

As complex and poignant as the break up of Brad and Jen, more provocative than a Nelly Furtado video and faster paced than the sale of your local camping ground, LandLies is an energetic and precocious new work that is not to be missed.

Season: Tuesday 29 May – Saturday 2 June
Time: 7pm, plus 9pm Friday/Saturday
Cost: Full $16/Concession and groups of 10+ $12

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