REBELS & ROBOTS PRODUCTIONS presents
The NZ premiere of:

Some Explicit Polaroids

By Mark Ravenhill

THE BASEMENT THEATRE – June 15th to 23th at 8pm*

Failed Assassination Attempts / New Age Strippers / Techno Music / Russian Go-Go Boys / Corporate Anarchists / AIDS Cocktails / Horny Ghosts / Beautiful Bodies / Abusive Lovers / Business Execs on the Rampage / Lots and Lots of E… WELCOME TO HAPPY NATION!

From the celebrated and controversial writer of ‘Shopping and F*cking’

Nick gets out of jail after 15 years inside and finds his former girlfriend, Helen, buried in a job they both despised when they were younger. Tim is sick and spends his time buying new toys on the internet: his latest item is a Russian go-go dancer named Victor. Nadia is a stripper who’s abused by her lover and is in constant search of enlightenment. And Jonathan, who works for the government, is very, very pissed off.
This is Mark Ravenhill’s most accomplished play, populated with the familiar gallery of criminals, junkies, sex-workers and psychotics who are Ravenhill's heroes. It delves into the zeitgeist and finds an era where political and personal clash in a slow motion car crash involving AIDS, lapdancing and high ambition.
“Some people may be put off by the sexually explicit nature of the play but when sex is sold to us in so many places today, theatre may be the last place where it can still hold any meaning."-Mark Ravenhill
With a stellar mix of accomplished and emerging actors, Andrew Ford, Roberto Nascimento, Edward Newborn, Lucy McCammon, Rashmi Pilapitiya & Robert Tripe Some Explicit Polaroids is directed by New Zealander Phillip C. Gordon.

"There are few stage authors writing more interestingly than Mark Ravenhill . . . He is - it is now yet more evident - a searing, intelligent, disturbing sociologist with a talent for satirical dialogue and a flair for sexual sensationalism"- Financial Times



CREDITS:

Production: Mark Ravenhill’s SOME EXPLICIT POLAROIDS
Venue: The Basement Theatre, Lower Greys Ave, Auckland
Dates: June 15th – 23th
Times: 8pm
Tickets: $25 Adults / $20 Concession (Students, Seniors, Actors Equity)
Bookings: 09 361 1000 / www.iticket.co.nz
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