Young & Hungry Festival of New Theatre 2016

Media Release for immediate use: June 2016
From: Y&H Publicity Team

Young & Hungry Festival of New Theatre

For 22 years Young & Hungry and BATS Theatre have been providing young people with a platform to perform, produce and create great theatre - with the Y&H Playwright Initiative producing three new kiwi plays a year and the annual Festival of New Works at BATS - Y&H feeds the theatrical hunger and quenches the creative thirst of younguns’ under 25.

Our 2016 season explores our relationships in many manifestations – BFF’s, one-night-stands, family, flatmates, religion, and Twitter.

Young & Hungry Festival of New Theatre
15-30 July 2016
BATS Theatre, 1 Kent Tce

$18 Full Price - $45 Season Pass (see all 3 plays)
$14 Concession - $36 Season Pass
$13 Group 6+ - $36 Season Pass
$10 School - $25 Season Pass

BOOKINGS : www.bats.co.nz / book@bats.co.nz / 04 802 4175

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Bloody Hell Jesus, Get Your Own Friends
Written by Lucy Craig / Directed by Jane Yonge
6.30pm - The Propellar Stage

Welcome to the jungle-gym; where an all encompassing primary school friendship meets religious fervour meets the need to find your own identity. Who are you without your BFF’s?

Bloody Hell Jesus; Get Your Own Friends follows the trials and turbulence of friendship between two girls, after one converts to Christianity, set against a backdrop of geeks, freaks, god squad, pot heads, punks, and Hipster Jesus…

Everyone needs to find their own rhythm.

https://bats.co.nz/whats-on/bloody-hell-jesus-get-your-own-friends/

Like Sex
Written by Nathan Joe /. Directed by Samuel Phillips
8.00pm – The HeyDay Dome

Samantha wants to bang Ben, Ben is in love with Mandy, Mandy is dating James, James is flirting with Natalie, Natalie confides in Lisa, and Lisa is using Gary.

In a series of episodic scenes, Like Sex captures the awkward, hormonal and selfish nature of teenage relationships in a real and honest way, with the characters revealing their lusty desires through the ‘joys’ of humanity’s favourite taboo.

A play for anyone who has ever been young, horny and confused.

https://bats.co.nz/whats-on/like-sex/

Dead Days
Written by Owen Baxendale / Directed by Debra Mulholland
9.30pm – The Propellar Stage

Life. Death. Palmy.

Meet Max; a misanthropic mortician’s apprentice who finds himself stuck between a rock and a hard place - the rock being the paternal pressure at his embalming gurney, and the hard place being the freedom to follow his gut to get out. A situation not helped by a drop-kick flatmate, cliché joker dad, and dead-beat girlfriend. All he needs is a shock to the system.

Death is inevitable. The dead returning is not.

https://bats.co.nz/whats-on/dead-days/

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