Loose: a Private History Of Booze + Iggy Pop

LOOSE: A PRIVATE HISTORY OF BOOZE + IGGY POP
CREATED & PERFORMED BY: JONNY POTTS
DATES: 7.30PM, 7 - 10 MARCH 2016
VENUE: TASTE MERCHANTS
36 STUART STREET DUNEDIN

BOOKINGS: WWW.DUNEDINFRINGE.NZ
PRESENTED AS PART OF THE DUNEDIN FRINGE FESTIVAL 2016, WITH SUPPORT FROM BOMBUS WORKSHOP & CREATIVE NZ

DUNEDIN FRINGE HOSTS SOUTH ISLAND PREMIERE OF ACCLAIMED NZ COMEDY SHOW

Award-winning writer and stand up comedian Jonny Potts (WGTN) is getting ready to bring a herculean hour of hilarity and intensity to the Dunedin Fringe Festival. ‘LOOSE: A Private History of Booze and Iggy Pop 1996-2015’ kicks off on 7 March, at Taste Merchants, marking the show’s South Island premiere.

Described as ‘startling in its perfectly ordinary wonderfulness’ (theatreview.org.nz), LOOSE is a compendium of twenty stories, one for each year in two decades of Jonny’s life. They’re all true, and they all deal with two constants: drinking booze and listening to Iggy Pop.

LOOSE will run for four nights only in Dunedin, one of New Zealand's great cultural centres. "Growing up, I was envious of everything I heard and saw about Dunedin" says Jonny, "The place and the people made cheap beer and woolly jerseys seem glamorous."

LOOSE has three acclaimed seasons under its belt. It opened in the 2015 NZ Fringe Festival, which garnered Jonny seven award nominations and won him three of the festival’s major recognitions: Best Writing, Best Stand Up and the SYNZ Touring Award, which saw the show play to enthusiastic audiences in Sydney in September.

“I have never had so many people offer to buy me a drink after a show as I have with this one" says Jonny, "LOOSE is the most personal thing I've ever done, and I'm so relieved that people are responding to it so positively."

Alongside his regular stand-up gigs, Jonny writes, acts and hosts two popular podcasts – The Witching Hours and Year of Reading Massively. He writes for film and theatre, and performs as part of Wellington’s award-winning theatre company The Bacchanals. He also plays a central role in Binge Culture Collective’s’ Enter the New World’, another Wellington work to be featured in this year’s Dunedin Fringe.

But right now, the focus is squarely on LOOSE. “In the months before we first opened I had nothing to do but hone this show. There's a lot in here, but I swear this is as tight as I could make LOOSE. I hope Dunedin audiences find something in it. Preferably laughs. Laughs would be good."

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