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Young & Hungry Festival of New Theatre
Auckland Theatre Company
Media Release
Tuesday 11 May, 2010
The Young & Hungry Festival of New Theatre Eats Up Auckland!
Auckland Theatre Company is thrilled to
return toThe Basement in July with over 50 emerging young
theatre-makers to present the 2010 Young and Hungry Festival
of New Theatre. Featuring three new plays; Thinning by Eli
Kent, Exchange by Lauren Jackson and Fitz Bunny: Lust for
Glory by cartoonist Grant Buist, the season showcases fresh
new faces and hot new stories from the latest generation of
NZ theatrical talent.
Thinning follows six friends as they break-up, hook-up, fall in love, get drunk, fall over and come out in one last explosive summer together before life takes them all in different directions. A Genuine Kiwi story that everyone can relate to, Thinning is a quintessential mix of The Breakfast Club and AmericanPie reinvented for the theatre.
Eli Kent who wrote the award winning The Intricate Art of Actually Caring and Rubber Turkey (2008 Chapman Tripp winner – Outstanding New Playwright of the Year) has written this coming of age story for Generation Y. Thinning will mark the professional directorial debut of Laurel Devenie. Laurel recently tore up the stage as Cecily in Auckland Theatre Company’s The Importance of Being Earnest.
Directed by Simon Coleman, (director, Bat Boy the Musical, Outstanding Musical Showdown Awards; set design, Rent, That Face), comes the outrageous musical, Fitz Bunny: Lust for Glory. It is a tale of a Napoleonic post-punk bunny head-butting her way into Auckland politics and the race for a Super Mayor.
Rocky Horror meets Monty Python Fitz Bunny: Lust for Glory is a wild ride with Bolshevik sheep, global thermonuclear war and four part harmony singing. It has been adapted by Grant Buist from his cult cartoon strip Brunswick.
Break out your lederhosen and moisten your strudel, the wall has come down. Exchange takes a step back in time and across the world, as five Kiwi students get lost in translation on their exchanges to Germany in 1994. Injected with the iconic fashion of the 90s era and a twist of history, Exchange explores how the Kiwi Overseas Experience can re-shape boundaries and change perspectives.Cell-phones are big as bricks, MTV rules and red-hot host mothers are on the prowl!
Exchange is written and directed by Lauren Jackson and is inspired by some of her experiences as an Exchange student in Germany.
The Young and Hungry festival offers talented young Aucklanders (aged 15 – 25) the opportunity to be actors, designers, stage managers, publicists and backstage crew whilst being mentored by seasoned professionals. 2010 mentors include Colin McColl, Elizabeth Whiting and Jason Te Mete.
This year’s Auckland season is presented in association with the Young and Hungry Arts Trust in Wellington, where the festival began in 1994. Well known New Zealanders who have honed their writing and acting talents in previous festivals include Taika Waititi (Boy). Loren Horsley (Eagle vs Shark), Riwia Brown (Once Were Warriors) and Briar Grace-Smith (The Strength of Water).
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