The PlayPit Closes SONG OF FOUR, SICK!, and THINNING, 7/24
By: BWW News Desk Jul. 24, 2010
The PlayPit has three brand-spanking new plays opening on Friday, and we're pretty excited about all of them. You can read a bit more below, but Song of Four by Sarah Delahunty, Sick! By Antonia Bale and Ban Abdul, and Thinning by Eli Kent are shaping up to be an ace team for the Festival - all very different, and all very cool. And you can get a nice wee discount for seeing all shows...buy a season pass and see all 3 shows for just $38 full or $28 concession!
SONG OF FOURWritten and directed by Sarah Delahunty
OPENS FRIDAY! until Saturday 24th July @ 6.30PM
Tickets $16 full / $13 concession
Buy a season pass and see all 3 shows for just $38 full or $28 concession!
You've only got nine months to save the world.
New Zealand has become the last hope breeding ground for the human race. Humanity has been left infertile following the worldwide introduction of a highly addictive chemical food additive.The search is on for anyone isolated and unaffected enough to participate in a breeding programme to re-populate the planet...whether they want to or not.
From renowned playwright Sarah Delahunty, Song for Four is a savvy social commentary on individual human value versus a grasping world driven by profit.
SICK!By Antonia Bale and Ban Abdul. Directed by Paul McLaughlin
OPENS FRIDAY! until Saturday 24th July @ 8PM
Tickets $16 full / $13 concession
Bullies are a bitch and there's a pack in every school.
Nalini Rakeesh is desperate to get in with the cool clique, and with help from the new girl at school it seems like she might get her chance. But with the much anticipatEd Halloween party on the horizon, who'll get tricked and who'll get treats?
Sick is an edgy comedy that explores the fickle dynamics of female friendships and school bullying by co-writers Antonia Bale and Ban Abdul.
THINNINGBy Eli Kent. Directed by Rachel Lenart
OPENS FRIDAY! until Saturday 24th July @ 9.30PM
Tickets $16 full / $13 concession
A dreamer, a joker, a rebel, a slacker, a soldier and a wallflower... people you love, people you hate, and people just like you.
Six high school graduates' lives are about to change course forever following a summer spent apple thinning in Nelson. There'll be break-ups, hook-ups, new loves, drunken nights... and, of course, lots and lots of apples.
Thinning is an exciting new work about growth and gravity by Eli Kent (Chapman Tripp Award for Outstanding New Playwright of the Year 2008)
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