Some Explicit Polaroids
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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