Fringe Festival

Theatre

You Be The Angel I Be The Ghost

For centuries, otherworldly creatures have come down to earth in a disguise so humanoid they cannot recognise their own true nature. Their task is to record human experience using all mankind's artistic forms. I am one of...more

DANCING IN THE WAKE: The story of Lucia Joyce

Handstand Productions
Why is Samuel Beckett her only visitor?  Her father's muse, the daughter of James and Nora Joyce loves to dance. She's drawn to young Sam, who works for her dad. In 1920s Paris Lucia tries Josephine Baker's cheeky cabaret...more

The Perky & Fiddle Show

Het Meubilair
HET MEUBILAIR (NL): THE PERKY & FIDDLE SHOW:  Perky & Fiddle are two gnomes. But no normal gnomes, they travel around with an amazing, but completely illegal show. This very rhythmic and sexy show, that carries...more

Lovers Walk - a Poetic Journey in Eight Scenes

Printable Reality
Fresh from Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2011,  Lovers Walk** is a short (yet infinite) theatrical odyssey created by dancer Siri Embla and poet Gus Simonovic, with astonishing visuals and enchanting music. Engaging...more

KITSCH IN SYNCH

Pollyfilla Productions
Melbourne based Drag Performance Artiste Polly Filla returns to present the world premiere of her latest work 'Kitsch In Sync' at the 2012 New Zealand Fringe Festival.  A homage/parody of the 'Kitchen Sink Drama' Genre,...more

The Adventures of Wendy the Wonderful, Leslie the Lover, Winston the Worrier & Marama the Muss

Jennifer Martin & Moana Ete
Wendy's life is full of adventure that she enjoys with her most cherished brother. One night, everything is flipped on its head when Wendy is forced to make a life changing decision for them both. Her new friends arrive to...more

Dark Stars

DS Productions
'Dark Stars' is an exciting new solo play written and directed by Arthur Meek and starring American actor Jonathan Council.  Council portrays a version of his own life as an unlucky African-American actor, who in seeking...more

Should We Stay Or Should We Go?

Lo-Fi
It's the classic tale: Boy meets Girl. Boy is from New Zealand.  Girl is from England. Boy falls passionately in love.  So does Girl. But they're in a mess.  Where do they live?  Brad (Boy) and Nancy (Girl)...more

Words on Edge

Poets reading from their own work, and reading from each other’s, and generally giving the idea of poetry as words on edge a run for its money. Or as Ian Wedde has it, putting words 'on the edges of their seats, at...more

Moving Stationery

Kallo Collective
Created and performed by Thom Monckton. Sigmund, the bewildered recipient of a new office job, is perhaps out of his depth. The new recruit is besieged by his new office and it seems the lift, his lunch, and the stationery...more

Hot Toxic Love

Energy Theatre
Energy Theatre is excited to present Hot Toxic Love - a lovingly disturbed showcase of Broadway's most twisted takes on romance in all its forms. Created by the team behind the phenomenal Bloody Broadway series and featuring...more

Honey

Honey never goes off. They found honey in Egypt, in the pyramids, in a pot or something, and they tried it and it was still really delicious and good. This play is about love and is about the universe and mice/cheese and...more

Sea of Stories

Seadog Productions
On the windswept North Sea coast, Freya's father is the last working fisherman in her village. But when he's lost at sea it's Freya who must set sail to rescue him from the underwater underworld of her childhood stories....more

The 37th Situation

The Situationalists
Since we now hold this thread, let us unwind it  George Polti Based on a list identified by Goethe, nineteenth-century French writer George Polti described 36 dramatic situations that he believed encompassed and categorised...more

Be Glad You’re Neurotic

Pleasant Whining
Be Glad You’re Neurotic is a tragic comedy of 21st century neuroses, guided by a book written in 1939.   The story charts the narrator’s own experience of buying a book called Be Glad You’re...more

Puppet Fiction – Pulp Fiction with Strings Attached

Present Company
Killing time between theatre shows? Watch a scene. Killing a night? Come to three. Pulp aficionado? Come every night for a week and get the whole film! Puppet Fiction – it’s Pulp Fiction with some strings attached...more

Divas & the Beast'

WIT (Wellington Improvisation Troupe)
What’s cheaper than therapy and a whole lot more entertaining? The Improv Divas’ new show Divas and the Beast. NZ’s only all-female improv team take on the audience’s everyday problems  'your...more

Confessions

Confessions is a bitter-sweet unravelling of extraordinary tales from the dark minds of those battling with what's right and what's wrong. Told in a series of achingly frank accounts, where boundaries are side-stepped and...more

Echolalia

The Kallo Collective
Tickled by the supposed “social weirdness” of autistic children while working with them on a holiday programme, Jen McArthur created a character for the stage who deals with everyday life in a unique way. Echolalia...more

The Show Must Go On

Inspired Productions
The Show Must Go On is a colourful and entertaining look into what goes on behind the scenes of a struggling travelling circus. It focuses on many dark aspects of being human but the circus' performers are quirky entertainers...more

Babylon

Sascha Perfect
In Babylon, the audience is lead thru the darkened crypt of St Mary’s of the Angels to encounter a complex soundscape reminiscent of an ancient place. The artists use extended vocal techniques, percussion, live instrumentation...more

Hurai

First performed in Dunedin in 2009, Hurai  by Harry Love is a story of Maori and missionaries in the early 19th century. As the European missionaries are confronted by Papa, a religious prophet espousing a potent mixture...more

Freeze Dried Reaction Strategy

People pre-preserve their response repertoires like lemon jelly jars or packets of dehydrated peas. But how prepared are they when surprise strikes? How can we expect to predict anyone's reaction when our own repertoire...more

The Tragic Tale of the E'n'B: a Comedy

Emotional Tramps
Unknown to many, in the depths of New Zealand’s economy there existed a small enterprise called the “Egg and Brick Emporium” – colloquially known as the “E’n’B” - purveyor of...more

Space Bitches

R.A.D. Theatre
Space Bitches explode from their Glitter Cave to fight their greatest foe. Not even the monotony of retirement will stop these feisty divas from tearing up the stage to show you who be boss.  Who be boss? Yeah, that's...more
Fanks to our sponsors
Website designed by
Website built by