Interstellar Hit of the Fringes Returns

Stills from the original production. All photographs by William O'Neil.

Media Release
11 June 2013
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Interstellar Hit of the Fringes Returns

my accomplice presents
A Play About Space
Written and directed by Uther Dean

Join Space Captain Florencia Dreggs and her bumbling right hand man Warner Hornshaw as they voyage across the galaxy going up against cyborg zombies, killer robots, aliens with four arms, and the horrifying crab-like Khalkalari.

Picking up awards, rave reviews and packed out houses, A Play About Space, the blast-off hit of both the Dunedin and Wellington Fringes is back and it’s bigger and better than ever before!

A Play About Space is every sci-fi film you loved when you were ten. It’s every sci-fi film you love today. And with their signature stripped-back theatrical aesthetic local theatre company my accomplice accomplish all that scale, grandeur and spectacle with just a room full of desk-lamps.

Delightfully and magically theatrical as well as being fun, funny and intense, A Play About Space is one of the most pants-tightening extreme theatre productions you will see all year. The critics agree: “Achingly funny” - Capital Times. “Comic genius” - Theatreview.org.nz. “Joyous and hilarious” - Wordonthestreet.co.nz. “...had the audience in stitches” - Wotzon.com. “Entertaining and imaginative” - Otago Daily Times.

A Play About Space won BEST THEATRE at the Dunedin Fringe and BEST DESIGN at the Wellington Fringe as well as being nominated for a host of other awards including BEST ENSEMBLE in Wellington and BEST OF FRINGE in Dunedin.

Not to rest on the laurels of their success, my accomplice is revamping and improving the show for this return season, promising “More thrills! More spills! More kills!”

“I didn’t want us to get lazy,” says Dean. “It’d be easy for us to just chuck the show up again but so much of the magic of it is in how alive and spontaneous it is. So we have to keep it growing. So it can still surprise the audience and surprise us!”

A PLAY ABOUT SPACE stars Hannah Banks, Nicole Harvey, and Chapman Tripp award winners Paul Waggott and Alex Grieg.

2 – 6 July, 6.30pm
Duration: 60 mins
Venue: BATS Theatre
Tickets: $18|$14
Bookings: bats.co.nz or (04) 802 4175

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