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How to spoil yourself this week!

How to spoil yourself this week!


It's all about choices baby.

6 shows a week, 3 shows per night, open 7 nights a week, BATS is the place to be this fringe. Check out all BATS shows running during the fringe festival here.

Mime, theatre of the absurd, dance, romance, comedy, and avante garde… you name we’ve got it. There’s something in here to satisfy all your theatrical cravings.

If you haven’t seen Buddha Boy yet, Tonight is your last night to catch this “Compelling…everyday tale” - Theatreview that opened last week.

Also you have only two more nights to catch A Mime to Kill which opened in the weekend.

Why should you watch The Skyrocketeers of Justice VS The Zombie Apocalypse, well check out the boys from the Chess club give their 10 reasons why you should see their show.

What you’ll find in BATS this week is practically an opening night, every night.

Self Portrait opens tomorrow night at 8pm. (note some guanos have a typo with an incorrect starting time of 9.30).

Opening on Wednesday night, The Binge Culture brings you Drowning Bird, Plummeting Fish.

Poly-Zygotic opens on Friday the 13th, but don’t let the date freak you out, this promises to be laugh a riot.

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And opening on Saturday 14 February (Valentines Day) is Words Apart.

We are still selling fringe Addict cards, which means you can see BATS shows during Fringe for only $10 and also get specials at The Pit Bar and other outlet around town.

Keep this one on the down low, but word is that first 100 people to book and pay for their tickets for the show Once Upon a time in Aro valley, will receive a free coffee voucher.

Sweet as.

That’s us for now.

Catch ya’ll next week in our next fringe installment.

Love BATSxxx


The Skyrocketeers of Justice VS The Zombie Apocalypse

Sunday 8 – Thursday 12 February

Time: 6.30pm

Tickets: $16 full / $12 concession / $10 Fringe Addict card holders

An Absurd Comedy. Three average guys, living in Newtown become convinced their neighbours are Zombies (for no real reason). Will they rid the town of this threat, before they run out of material? Yes, yes they will. Or will they? Yes.

BOOK NOW or READ MORE

A Mime To Kill

Saturday 7 – Thursday 10 February

Time: 9.30pm

Tickets: $16 full / $12 concession / $10 Fringe Addict card holder

Mime-raised triplets battle discrimination, fame and globo-economic recession. Then one dies. Did the economy kill this mime? Was it his brothers? Or was it the minotaur… The Premier Mime event of 2009, from the people that brought you Tap That!

BOOK NOW or READ MORE

Self Portrait

Tuesday 10 – Friday 13 February

Time: 8pm

Tickets: $16 full / $12 concession / $10 Fringe Addict cardholders

Rita Angus is one of New Zealand’s most cherished artists, her self-portraits an inspiration to these solo works. With Self Portrait, each choreographer chose to be influenced by Rita’s works in different ways - come along and discover a new side to Rita’s works for yourself as they explode on to the stage for the first time.

BOOK NOW or READ MORE

Drowning Bird, Plumetting Fish

Wednesday 11 – Thursday 19 February (no show Sunday)

Time: 9.30pm

Tickets: $16 full / $12 concession / $10 Fringe Addict cardholders

These are unsettling times. The performers are looking nervous. The polar bears are beginning to sweat. In this volatile climate, it's hard to find an audience you can trust… A rule-breaking, energized performance from Binge Culture Collective, the makers of 1001 Things You MUST Do Before You Die.

BOOK NOW or READ MORE

Poly- Zygotic

Friday 13 – Monday 16 February

Time: 6.30pm

Tickets: $16 full / $12 concession / $10 Fringe Addict cardholders

Polyzygotic and Samoan? Follow this set of triplets as they attempt to find their own uniqueness in a family packed out with tradition, rules, structure, and KFC. Devised by and featuring: Tupe Lualua, Taofi Mose-Tuiloma & Asalemo Tofete

BOOK NOW or READ MORE

Words Apart

Saturday 14 – Wednesday 18 February

Time: 8pm

Tickets: $16 full / $12 concession / $10 Fringe Addict cardholders

A powerful play combining two of our official languages - the verbal English language with the visual New Zealand Sign Language. Inspired by the love and hate themes of Romeo and Juliet, a young Deaf man struggles to find love in a predominantly hearing world.

BOOK NOW or READ MORE

The Pit Bar

MY LOVE IS THE PIT! At a loss for Valentines? Come and let Matt Langley

serenade you in The Pit Bar from 11pm on Saturday the 14th. And don't forget

we're always here for you at The Pit Bar, open 7 days a week from 5pm during

the Fringe with specials for Addicts and Artists (cardholders that is).

xxx

from The Pit Bar

Win Tickets to BATS this Valentines Day.

Wanna feel the love? Wanna share the love?

That's right baby. It's Valentines Day this Saturday and BATS is giving away two ticket to the opening night of Words Apart on Saturday 14 February. Take your date to the show or use your ticket to seduce and find yourself a date for the night.

To be in to win, Tell us what was the most romantic show/moment you have seen at BATS. Entries close Thursday 12 February at 3pm.

Mental Health Break

Does the thought or the idea of valentines day makes you want to cringe, scream or just hurt someone? Well this Anti- Valentines video might just be the perfect vid for you.


ENDS

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