Breaking the 5th Wall – or What is Humour?

Breaking the 5th Wall – or What is Humour?
WARNING: THIS SHOW WILL BLOW YOUR MIND!
Breaking the 5th Wall is a Monty Python-esque sketch based piece that questions, investigates, probes and exposes comedy.

"What is funny . . . and why?"

If you are looking for an absurd, fast-paced flow of consciousness, slap-stick pastiche of comedy (that you can bring your Gran to) – Breaking the 5th Wall is the show for you!

Loosely based on the character-driven, ‘absurdity of daily life’ work of Python and epic mythology studies of philosopher Joseph Campbell, Breaking the 5th Wall wants to engage and entertain the audience in the possibilities of, rather than the answers to this question of ‘comedy’.

“Breaking the 5th Wall is a show about humour - finding the laugh where it should be and also where you didn't expect it to be…like maybe in a trombone case?...” Josh Samuels, Writer-Performer and former Chairman of the NZ Society of Professional Quote Writers

So open your mind and set it free. If it comes back, you’ll know it’s yours to keep.

By: Josh Samuels
Directed by: Merrilee McCoy
Starring: Lucy Edwards, Josh Samuels and Woody Tuhiwai

WELLINGTON:
Dates: 6-9 May 2009, 9.30pm
Venue: BATS Theatre, 1 Kent Tce, Wellington
Tickets: $16 Full /$13 Concession & Groups of 8+
Bookings: book@bats.co.nz or 04 802 4175

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