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BATS THEATRE

1 Kent Terrace, Wellington
Wellington, 6011



Feature: IN THE GREEN at BATS, Wellington


by Monica Moore - March 18, 2025

'Musically complex, dramatically abstract, and intensely intimate in style, 'In the Green' is an ambitious work that’s worthy of the focused attention it demands.'...

Playfight Productions to Present ME, MY MOTHER AND SUZY CATO by Florence Hartigan


by A.A. Cristi - March 04, 2025

Following its sold out season at the 2024 Auckland Fringe Festival, Florence Hartigan (Madam, Shortland Street) is bringing her award-winning, one-woman Y2K comedy to the NZ International Comedy Festival....

Playfight Productions Presents MERELY BELOVED by Shoshana McCallum


by A.A. Cristi - March 04, 2025

International Emmy Award Winner, Shoshana McCallum, aims to make you laugh at the loss of a loved one. An unflinching, hilarious, yet deeply compassionate examination of what happens when we try to avoid grief, Merely Beloved invites us all along to the catastrophe that is not death itself but every...

Past Shows

Me, My Mother and Suzy Cato
Me, My Mother and Suzy Cato
5/20 - 5/24/2025


It's December 1999, and the one thing helping 17-year-old Rachel avoid the fact she's terrified about her future is the promise of ringing in the ...

Merely Beloved
Merely Beloved
5/20 - 5/24/2025


Elaine has just lost her beloved husband, Joe, to a heart attack which she may have accidentally caused. She’d be devastated, maybe even a little ...

Writes for Women
Writes for Women
3/14 - 3/16/2017


BATS presents a short series of play readings from leading New Zealand women playwrights....

We May Have To Choose
We May Have To Choose
3/2 - 3/11/2017


A poetic study of the personal soapbox & a fantastical ride through the subconscious mind....

26 Cats Destroy The Patriarchy


A new play for mothers, daughters, and radical feminist grandmas....

Crims
Crims
2/1 - 2/4/2012


When Willy gets caught shoplifting his life is plunged into one of lies, deception and hiding from the pigs. During community service he meets Louis. ...

The Long Weekend
The Long Weekend
1/31 - 2/4/2012


Why go away when you can spend the Long Weekend at BATS Theatre? The Polaroid Collective returns to BATS with the NZ Improv Festival (2011) ...

Lonely Heart
Lonely Heart
1/17 - 1/28/2012


A musical by Michael Nicholas Williams Martha Beck is one of life’s losers, but in her dreams she is Scarlett O’Hara waiting for Rhett Butler ...

Munted
Munted
1/24 - 1/28/2012


A show by by the Bare Hunt Collective In their next offering after back/words, Bare Hunt Collective brings you Munted, a documentary theatre project exploring ...

Videos


Menopause The Musical in New Zealand Menopause The Musical
The Civic, Auckland (3/13 - 3/13)
Cabaret - Preview 1 in New Zealand Cabaret - Preview 1
ASB Waterfront Theatre (9/22 - 9/22)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in New Zealand Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Isaac Theatre Royal (4/23 - 5/9)
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