COMEDY : Festival shows

The picks from our woman on the scene – Brianne Kerr

2006 Downstage Comedy Season 11 May – 3 June
ODDFELLOWS New Zealand International Comedy Festival 2006
The Drag Kings: 11-13 May @ 8pm
The 4 Noels: 16-20 May @ 7pm
Charlie Pickering: 16-20 May @ 8.30pm
David O’Doherty: 23-27 May @ 7pm
Janey Godley: 23-27 May @ 8.30pm
Brandon Lovegrove: 30 May – 3 June @ 7pm
Those Indian Guys: 30 May – 3 June @ 8.30pm
For more details check out www.downstage.co.nz or www.comedyfestival.co.nz
All bookings @ 04 801 6946 or www.downstage.co.nz
Downstage becomes the Wellington home of the ODDFELLOWS NZ International Comedy Festival and events. Plus, we'll be the Festival bar! So get your skates on, get down here and get a belly full of comedy!


An Unfortunate Woman
ODDFELLOWS New Zealand International Comedy Festival 2006
Venue: BATS Theatre, 1 Kent Terrace, Wellington
Dates: Tue 23rd – Sat 27th May 2006
Tickets: Full $18 / Conc. $14
Time: 6.30pm
Booking: 04 802 4175 book@bats.co.nz
A tale of delusion, infidelity and social outcasts, Nicola Gunn is An Unfortunate Woman (and everybody else) in a performance of physical luminosity as wicked as it is absurd.
“***** The audience was blown away.” - Montreal Gazette 2005
www.bats.co.nz
www.nicolagunn.com


Brimstone and Treacle
24-27 May, 7.30pm
MTA Garage Space
11 Hutchinson St, Newtown
BOOKINGS: 04 381 9253 $15/12
By Dennis Potter
Directed by Sally Richards
‘There is no god and there are no miracles.’ Mr Bates
Sally Richards is proud to present British dramatist Dennis Potter’s infamous and wickedly humorous thriller, Brimstone and Treacle, a play originally banned by BBC television in 1976 for being ‘nauseating’.
Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School and Victoria University of Wellington
Master of Theatre Arts in Directing