Only Bones v1.0: World-Hopping Body Generated Idiocy

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Kallo Collective presents
Only Bones v1.0
Created by Thom Monckton and Gemma Tweedie
Performed by Thom Monckton

WORLD-HOPPING BODY GENERATED IDIOCY

“45 minutes of body-generated invention that will likely send you back out into the night with a spring in your step” - The List, Edinburgh Fringe 2016

Arriving to Wellington after recently performing in Perth, Tehran, and Auckland Only Bones v1.0 created by New Zealanders Thom Monckton (Moving Stationery, The Pianist) and Gemma Tweedie and produced by the award winning physical theatre company Kallo Collective, condenses a universally accessible show into one meter square, under one solitary lamp. Only Bones performed as a demo in the 2015 NZ Fringe winning the award for Physical Theatre. Since then it has toured around the world to various venues ranging from a pinkwalled meeting hall in Lapland, Finland, to a converted prison camp in French Guiana. From a prestigious national museum in Mexico to a derelict mansion in Latvia and a much-too-large theatre in Hangzhou, China. It sold out almost every show in Edinburgh Fringe 2016 and featured as part of Soho Theatre’s London International Mime Festival program in 2017.

There’s only a chair, a lamp and a circle on the floor but by using his bendy body, bickering wiggling hands and seemingly uncontrollable face, Monckton creates an exquisite piece of micro-physical theatre unlike anything you’ve seen. A hypnotic show about a lot, using very little.

“Monckton’s ability to manipulate the smallest parts of the body, not just to do this expertly well but while establishing a playful relationship with the audience, is mind-blowing” - Across The Arts, Edinburgh

Fringe 2016
Shortlisted for Edinburgh Fringe Total Theatre Awards 2016
Winner - NZ Fringe Awards 2015: Best in Physical Theatre (demo version)

Presented as part of NZ Fringe from 1st - 23rd March 2019.

For the full programme visit www.fringe.co.nz
Only Bones plays
Dates: 12th - 16th March, 7pm & 8:30pm daily
Venue: Te Auaha, Tapere I), 65 Dixon Street
Tickets: $20 Full, $15 concession, $14 Fringe Addict
Bookings: www.fringe.co.nz/

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