BATS Loves You! - This Week at BATS

It's that time of year again - the Fringe Festival officially hits Wellington this Friday, but BATS is getting things started early with the first of our Fringe shows, Diamond Dogs opening tomorrow night. The moving lights they are rigging are pretty... think of all the fun you'll find in the rubber room also continues its run until Saturday so make sure you check out this charming new show.

Asking me to pick my favourites out of the upcoming Fringe shows is like asking a mother to choose her favourite child, but this week you should definitely check out Joseph and Mahina the new play from Thomas Sainsbury. He's one of the writers behind the hilarious new TV3 show Super City, so this one should prove to be a little treat. And you can't go past a show with Vampires in the title...

See you at the theatre!

xxxBATS

think of all the fun you'll find in the rubber room

by Uther Dean

FINAL WEEK!!! until 19th (no show Sunday/Monday) @ 8pm

$18 / $14

"Paul Waggott and Hannah Banks are an engaging pair to be stuck with in the Rubber Room." - (Laurie Atkinson, Dominion Post)

"..this experiment is a success...definitely worth a look." - (Phoebe Smith, Theatreview)

What do you do when it’s your job to do nothing? think of all the fun you'll find in the rubber room is a darkly comic exploration of what happens to people when they have only time on their hands. From the creators of the critically acclaimed DOORS. WALLS. AND ALSO SILENCE and featuring Paul Waggott and Hannah Banks.

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Diamond Dogs

by Kate Fitzroy and Julia Harrison

OPENS TUESDAY! until February 17th @ 9.30pm

$16 / $14 / $12

The cards are dealt. You have depression and you are about to play David Bowie in a karaoke competition...

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WITside Story

OPENS WEDNESDAY! until February 18th @ 6pm

$16 / $14 / $12

Strike up the band, put on your hairspray and get those jazz hands ready for an enchanted evening of story telling and musical delight!

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Love in the Time of Vampires

by Pachali Brewster

OPENS FRIDAY! until February 21st @ 9.30pm

$16 / $14 / $12

Will the living last the night?! Thrills and horror, romance and revenge, a whole bulb of garlic... This is funny business you can stake your heart on!

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Joseph and Mahina

by Thomas Sainsbury

OPENS SATURDAY! until February 23rd @ 6.30pm

$16 / $14 / $12

From the award-winning writer of Luv, The Mall, Sunday Roast and The Christmas Monologues comes a new love story starring 2010 Fringe Award Nominee Renee Lyons.

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Motherlock

by Melissa Fergusson

February 21st - 24th @ 8pm

$16 / $14 / $12

Based on the true experiences of New Zealand playwright Melissa Fergusson, this one woman show follows a young woman living in the United Kingdom and New Zealand over fourteen years through four pregnancies to different British men.

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There's So Much To Live For

by Freya Desmarais

February 22nd - 26th @ 9.30pm

$16 / $14 / $12

A play about what scares us, what stops us from living our lives and what haunts us in our dreams.

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The Hooligan and the Lady

by Pauleen Hayes

February 24th - 27th @ 6.30pm

$16 / $14 / $12

An amazing true story, the life of Miss Florence LeMar (the World Famous Ju-Jitsu Girl) is a vaudeville sensation!

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Big Trouble in Small Newtown

by Jennifer Martin and Bianca Seinafo

February 25th - March 1st @ 8pm

$16 / $14 / $12

An absurd adventure that will take you from the far reaches of the galaxy to .... Newtown (by way of the Mighty Boosh and Jurassic Park).

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The Aliens of Poverty Bay

by Aidan Weekes

February 27th - March 2nd @ 9.30pm

$16 / $14 / $12

Flying saucers, hitchhiking aliens, the world ending in 2007. Acclaimed filmmaker Martin Boyle tells the thrilling true story of the Aliens of Poverty Bay.

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and in The Pit Bar...

The Fringe Festival kicks off early at BATS this week, meaning the Pit Bar is open EVERY DAY through until March 5th! So come on down from 5pm for a drink in the sun before checking out the Festival show of your choice.

And remember - if you have a Fringe Addict card (available from RadioActive) you can get Macs Beers for $5. That's pretty cheap.

Win cool stuff!

Another week, and we have another two double passes up for grabs. This time the shows on offer are Big Trouble in Small Newtown and The Aliens of Poverty Bay so just let me know which one you want to see and I'll put you in the drawer. Easy as.

Congrats to Tim Nuttall who has picked up a double pass to the opening night of Diamond Dogs, and to Mel Ruebe who will be checking out Joseph and Mahina. Wicked.

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ENDS

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