Bud Premieres While The Whole World Watches

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Fabulous Arts Aotearoa New Zealand [FAANZ] Presents:

Bud Premieres While The Whole World Watches

Bud

Written & Directed by Ronald Trifero Nelson

San Francisco - Where a man can be what a man needs to be.

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A groundbreaking theatre event offering a unique GLBT perspective about our community and our place the wider world.

Fabulous Arts Aotearoa New Zealand (FAANZ) is a production co-operative intent on quality, relevant Queer Theatre in New Zealand. In their inaugural production FAANZ is proud to present BUD.

In between the shadows of McCarthy America, BUD stumbles upon Jean Genet's long banned homoerotic film Un chant d amour. On a bright Sunday afternoon he pulls down the blinds of his three-room apartment and all his unnamed and unclaimed desires come to light within a 16 MM frame.

BUD is director Ronald Nelson’s technical project as part of his second year of training at Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School’s MTA course – and will employ cutting edge projection, audio, film and live web streaming.

Performed by Louis Solino (Dancing the Gay Fandango, ROME: the musical)
Written and Directed by Ronald Trifero Nelson (ONION, Corner 4 AM & Cuba)
Produced Pat McIntosh (dGARE, 360 degrees)

This work presents sexually explicit situations, images and language.

Wednesday 1 – Thursday 9 April, 8:30 pm
BATS Theatre, 1 Kent Tce, Wellington
Tickets: $16 full / $13 concession
Bookings book@bats.co.nz or 04 802 4175

Louis Solino Biography:

Louis Solino was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As a teenager, he had already achieved nationwide fame as a regular dancer on Dick Clark's legendary TV show American Bandstand. Later, while studying at Philadelphia's Hedgerow Drama School, he became interested in modern dance and moved to New York to study at the Martha Graham School.

The next few years exposed Mr Solino to some of New York's most extreme avant-garde dancers, including work with the developing Dance Theatre Workshop and Judson Church. As a soloist, he toured with them in the USA, Europe, the Soviet Union and the Middle East, and was noted for his particularly evil Iago in Limón's famous The Morr's Pavane, which he also danced with Denmark's Erick Bruhn and Ballet West.

Mr Solino has worked regularly with dancer / choreographer Paul Jenden since 1980. He is well known in Wellington for his roles in Jenden’s highly popular Fairy Stories and Dance for Dummies as well as featuring in the musicals Troy, Monarchy and Rome.

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