This Week At Bats...

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This week is your last chance to see Bedbound by Enda Walsh – closes on Thursday! Starring Steven Ray and Amiria Grenell.

“Walsh creates blistering arias of brutal, visceral intensity” Laurie Atkinson, Dominion Post.

Next at BATS – Hate Crimes by Paul Rothwell, directed by David Lawrence. Opens on 31 March.

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Happy Easter from the BATS crew x

Bedbound
Season: Until Thursday 24 March
Time: 8pm
Tickets: $16 full/$12 concession

“I'm in the bed. The panic has sucked me dry again 'til all that's left is ta start over. I get that tiredness turn to tight . . . and I give in ta the words. I let go. Go.”

Bedbound premieres in New Zealand at BATS Theatre, bringing an edgy new play with a graphic warning on the ravages of capitalism.
“Like Beckett with a broken bottle in his hand” (The Times) Enda Walsh, author of award-winning Disco Pigs has penned a tale of a father and a daughter sharing a small bed. He talks frantically of his extraordinary past, she tries to piece together her extraordinary present. Feverishly exciting and blackly comic, the world they live in is unlike any other.

The play is outrageous, intense and seems to break playwriting rules at every twist. Bedbound brings exciting Christchurch Theatre company A DIFFERENT LIGHT to Wellington. It is a creative collaboration spearheaded by director Tony McCaffrey, noted Christchurch director with previous highly successful shows including the New Zealand tour of Disco Pigs in 2003 ('The energy bounces off BATS's walls' - Dominion Post ); The Curative (2003); The Maids (2004); and Duck (2004).

With a combination of the vastly experienced Wellington actor Steven Ray as the Father, a money grabbing nightmare product of Capitalism; and exciting new talent Amiria Grenell as the Daughter, a victim of Capitalism gone terribly wrong. A specially commissioned soundscape for the production has been composed by O.G, his album Uncharted available now. With set by Toby Papazoglou and lighting by Martyn Roberts, Bedbound promises a theatre tour de force with typical Irish intensity.

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