The Mixtape has improvisers playing along to music

The Mixtape has improvisers playing along to music

Your Mixtape. Their story.

This winter, let Best on Tap warm the cockles of your heart with a tale of how music can bring two people together.

For The Mixtape, each audience member creates a seven-track mixtape dedicated to a special person in their life. As one lucky tape is played, improviser troupe Best on Tap will riff off their songs to navigate the complexities of a human relationship.

Mixtapes have a special place in the heart of director Wiremu Tuhiwai, “I'm an 80's child so early on in my life I just loved cassette tapes and music. The Mixtape itself is such a great under-rated form of expression which had so many layers that the compiler had created for their recipient. Every song will affect people differently, especially when it's fairly well-known songs from the past.”Audiences are invited to to hum along!

From a stellar premiere performance at last year’s New Zealand Improv Festival (“If you were to script it, you’d think it was at least at third draft stage” – Theatreview), The Mixtape returns for a three-night run at The Boat Cafe. Jamming along to your song choices, the improvisers of Best on Tap will bring lives, loves, and laughs to the stage in a mixtape that has never been heard or seen before.

Entirely improvised, made up on the spot for your delight, The Mixtape will take you back and forth through time to some of the best beats APN will let us play.

Where will your mixtape take us?

Performers:

Adam Williamson

Barry Miskimmin

Geoff Simmons

Kate Wilson

Matt Hutton

Mary Little

Nicola Pauling

Wiremu Tuhiwai

The Mixtape

Improvised by Best on Tap/Directed by Wiremu Tuhiwai

7pm, 4 August – 6 August

The Boat Café

148 Oriental Parade, Oriental Bay

BOOKINGS: Eventfinder

TICKETS:

Full: $10/Student: $8/Groups 5+: $8

ENDS

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