Bats Presents MO AND JESS KILL SUSIE Through January 23

Mo & Jess Kill Susie Season: runs through Saturday 23 January (no Show Sun/Mon)
Time: 8.30pm
Tickets: $20 full / $14 concession / $18 groups (6+)
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by Gary Henderson

Two armed Maori women wait with their bound, gagged and unconscious captive, in an empty building. The hostage is the trump card in a tense face-off between Maori protesters and police. The women are waiting for a phone call with instructions on how to deal with their victim.
Gary Henderson's prickly thriller Mo and Jess Kill Susie premiered at BATS in 1996, and original reviews had headlines like "Frightening View of the Future" and "Henderson shows hard-hitting realism." It could be argued that the content is now even more pertinent. Certainly the circumstances of a stand off between police and Maori protesters on Wellington's waterfront, has immediate resonance.
This is the third of Gary's plays that Murray Lynch has directed; "Gary has the right knack of building suspense and tension with readily identifiable characters who speak in completely believable ways. I'm having a great time with the notion that the audience will be surprised and perhaps shocked by the intensity of this hugely entertaining ride."
The night tightens around them, claustrophobia closes in, time runs out, the call doesn't come...
Starring Cian Elyse White, Juanita Hepi & Antonia Bale.
Other roles in this hostage drama are taken by Thomas Press (Chapman Tripp nominee for sound design 2009) and Production Manager Anna Drakeford (Capital E ).

 

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