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A startling new piece of theatre - Village Voice
3 April 2006
Kia ora BATS friends,
Thanks to everyone who supported the BATS staff during Polly's takeover last week. Steph and Mia looked fabulous in green sequins ...
This week we host two acclaimed pieces of theatre. Ryan Hartigan brings us Never Swim Alone, a surreal Canadian comedy where the best man wins.
And Katlyn Wong devises in Cantonese and English to stun us with her solo show, Mui.
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Never Swim Alone by Daniel
McIvor
Tues 4 - Thu 13 April (no show Sun / Mon)
7pm
Tickets. $16 full / $12 concession & groups
8+
Directed by Ryan Hartigan.
A Theatre Pataphysical
Production In association with da da kamera (Toronto)
Never Swim Alone is a competition.
A multiple
award-winning, hilarious and scathing dissection of
masculinity that asks 'how much of our humanity did we lose
when we bought this image of the modern superman?'
'a
triumph.a startlingly new piece of theatre.dynamically
theatrical' - Village Voice
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Mui by Katlyn Wong
Thu 6 - Thu 13
April (no show Sun / Mon)
9pm
Tickets. $16 full / $12
concession & groups 10+
Speaking in Cantonese I experience a different person.
An effortlessly bilingual story unfolding from small beginnings and a leap of faith to New Zealand. In Cantonese and English with English subtitles.
"... the real 21st century Chinese women ...' - Tze Ming
Mok, Landfall
"Wong's acting, which crosses a range of
characters and two languages, is compelling and tightly
constructed with not a word or action wasted" - Emily
Braunstein, Salient, Go solo 2004
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