Bunny Favoured Over Banks For Super Mayor

Auckland Theatre Company
Media Release
Monday 24 May, 2010
Auckland Theatre Company
In association with the Young and Hungry Arts Trust present

Bunny Favoured Over Banks For Super Mayor – Aucklanders Unsurprised

The Basement www.basementspace.co.nz
Lower Greys Avenue, Auckland.
Fitz Bunny: Lust for Glory, part of the Young & Hungry Festival 2010, by Auckland Theatre Company (ATC)
9 – 24 July, 9.30 pm.
$20/$15
(09) 309 3395 to book.

Desperate for the antidote to high school musicals? ATC has the remedy on hand. Grant Buist, the award-winning cartoonist whose work has featured in Remix, Rip It Up and Pavement, has embraced the musical genre’s dark side and adapted his cartoon Brunswick for the stage. In Fitz Bunny: Lust for Glory.

Fitz Bunny is a two-foot-tall pink bunny with Napoleonic tendencies. After a release of calicivirus leaves thousands of Fitz’s relatives dead, she swears revenge and head-butts her way onto Auckland’s political scene and into the race for the first ‘Super Mayor’. Propelled along in Fitz’s wake are her backing singers, the Rabettes, a hapless journalist, Alex, and her adorable admirer, Enderby Hedgehog.

Channelling its title character’s violent tendencies, Fitz Bunny: Lust for Glory erupted on the BATS stage and snatched the box office record away during its debut season at the Young & Hungry Festival in Wellington in 2007. This “deliciously funny and high-spirited musical” (Dominion Post) also garnered rave reviews, as the “finest, funniest, most original show … seen in years” (Theatreview).

Director Simon Coleman (director, Bat Boy the Musical; set design, Rent) brings his extensive musical theatre experience to the show, which he describes as “dark and sexy, full of political satire and wit”. Coleman cites Rocky Horror and Monty Python as inspiration for his vision of the show.

“Forget the Comedy Festival” (The Capital Times), Young & Hungry has a show that will provide everything you want: singing, dancing, puns, one-liners and nuclear warheads! The truly theatre-ravenous can make a night of it with Kiwi kids on a school exchange to Germany in Exchange at 6.30pm, get a bite out of the world of Generation Y in Thinning at 8.00pm, before finishing with the “musical rollercoaster” of Fitz Bunny: Lust for Glory at 9.30pm – all “must-see” theatre.

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