How to keep warm this winter!

How to keep warm this winter!

Save up on your energy bill this winter and come on down to the warm and cosy BATS Theatre. That’s right, Our Air- Con also doubles as heater.

“If you fancy a fast-paced drama, packed with power struggles, underhand dealings and a touch of humour, head to Hedda Gabler” – Karyn Cushion- Texture.

On it’s final week at BATS is Hedda Gabler. Theatreview reckons “It deserves to be seen far and wide” and “It is a superb distillation of humanity and inhumanity made extraordinarily accessible without compromising Ibsen’s genius at all”. Have you seen it yet? Book yourself now to avoid disappointment.

Lantern opened last week. “Lantern as a whole was enjoyable, the dialogue was intelligent and the themes explored were challenging”
“The most impressive aspect of Lantern is the acting skills of Li-Ming Hu and Andy Wong… both Hu and Wong managed the transitions smoothly and convincingly embodied the traits of each individual character expertly”

Awesome huh? Want to win tickets to the show Lantern tomorrow night? Scroll below and enter the competition.

Also check out next week's BATSmail for more info on which play will be featured in The Playpit. Wanna get more updates or find out what BATS been upto then become a tweet and follow us on Twitter .

Choice.

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_Hedda Gabler

Season: Wednesday 15 April – Saturday 2 May (no show Sun/Mon).

Time: 9pm
Tickets: $18 full / $13 concession / $12 groups 12+.

By Henrik Ibsen
Presented by The Wild Duck
Directed by David Lawrence (Henry V, A Renaissance Man)

"Hedda Gabler is thoroughly accessible and a highly stimulating reworking of a play clearly worthy of being called a classic" - John Smythe - Theatreview.

" A minor miracle" Laurie Atkinson- The Dompost

How does the most beautiful, charismatic yet volatile woman in literature exist and yet refuse to live in today’s more liberal, multicultural society? Trapping herself in the expectations of those around her and dissatisfied with her own existence, she snatches to control anything. Or anyone…

The Wild Duck adapt, crush and throw Ibsen’s nineteenth century classic into the vernacular of Courtenay Place.

Remember her?

"I want, for once in my entire life, to have some influence. To have some power. In someone else's fate…. The power to mould a human destiny." (Lucy Kirkwood, Hedda)

Starring Clare Kerrison, Asalemo Tofete, Amy Tarleton, Salesi Le'ota, Mike Ness and Tupe Lualua
Designed by Ulli Briese (Metamorphosis)
Produced by Fiona McNamara
BOOK NOW or READ MORE

_Lantern

Season: Tuesday 21 April – Saturday 2 May (no show Sun/Mon), Matinee on Thursday 30th April at 12.30pm
Time: 6.30pm
Tickets: $18 full / $13 concession / $10 for all Matinee tickets
by Renee Liang

Light your way home.

Two actors. Nine characters. 85 luminescent minutes.

Chinese New Year's Eve is when families get together, eat like gluttons and sweep the house clean of any bad-luck issues before the New Year. Unfortunately for the Chen family, there are rather a lot of issues. Henry is a broken man, consumed by memories of war and immigration. His children Jen and Ken are still trying to figure out the basics of who they really are. And then his wife Rose, who walked out of their lives a year ago, reappears just before dinnertime….

Written by emerging NZ-Chinese playwright Renee Liang and featuring an all-Chinese cast, Lantern is not a play about being Asian, or even about being Kiwi-Asian It's a play about what it means to be family.

See the play that sold out its debut season at Smackbang Theatre (Auckland) in 2008.

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_The Pit Bar

We've got the heater cranking and tiny homemade, poetry covered lanterns festooning the walls. Cosy. You too can join in. Check out Lantern for more details.

Friday is International Workers Day and the Renegades of Folk will play after Hedda Gabler in celebration. Take that The Man!

And don’t forget to diary PlayPit next Monday from 5.30pm and the party for our peep Clare from 8pm – last chance to ply her with pinot. Can’t make it? Why not leave her a drink on the board and join the campaign to get her name ALL over it.

Love The (illuminated) Pit Bar.

_Win Tickets to Lantern

Light your way home in the lumious play Lantern. To go into the draw to win tickets to the show tomorrow night. tell the names of the two actors from the show.

Entries close at 12pm, Tuesday 28 April.

Enter here!

_Mental Health Break

Here's a game for your fingers. There's UFO's , space ships and all. It's Asteroids baby!

BOOK NOW

To book for any performance at BATS email

book@bats.co.nz

with your name, the show, date and number of tickets. We will reply to confirm your booking and you can pay when you come to the show. Choice!

ENDS

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