Idiots: Back 2 School

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Idiots: Back 2 School

A play by Nic Sampson

St Peter’s college, one of the country’s oldest and most prestigious public schools has seen a fair amount of decline in recent years. The grounds are overgrown, the library is full of possums, and the 1st XV hasn’t won a Fraser Shield title in over 20 years. The new principal is trying her best to get St Peter’s back on track, but it’s complicated when your rugby captain is in love with you. Oh and you’re also being haunted by the misoginistic ghost of a former principal.

Opening Tuesday 17th May, Idiots: Back 2 School is an irreverent cross-section of an ordinary day at an ordinary college full of ordinary weirdos. 13 of Wellington’s most attractive actors tackle a series of inter-connected vignettes about stoners, rugby heads, music nerds, feuding teachers, love-triangles, jealousies, betrayals, ghosts, and a couple of seagulls. It’s high school. Just like you remember it. *

* Your high school experience may have differed significantly.

Nic Sampson is an experienced comedy writer currently working for television’s The Jono Project. He has written and starred in two comedy festival shows at BATS: Tim and Andy: An Adventure, and The Burn, where he played an optimistic angel on work exchange in hell. His latest endeavor Idiots: Back 2 School enjoyed a packed-out season in Auckland last year and starred some of the city’s top actors including Keisha Castle-Hughes, Morgana O’Reilly, Ari Boyland, and Gareth Williams, as well as direction from Thomas Sainsbury, Peter Salmon, and Dena Kennedy. Nic is stoked to be bringing Idiots to BATS theatre with a whole new cast of Wellington actors and directors adding their own talent to the madness.

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