Think of All The Fun You’ll Find in The Rubber Room

Monday 10 January 2011
Fringe Festival 2011

my accomplice presents:

8-19 February, 8.00pm
BATS Theatre, 1 Kent Tce, Wellington
BOOKINGS: 04 8024175 or book@bats.co.nz
TICKETS: $18/14
www.bats.co.nz

What do you do when it’s your job to do nothing?

The Rubber Room is where teachers are sent when they can’t be trusted to teach but can’t be fired. An empty classroom. No classes to teach. Nothing.

Sophie has been coming to work in The Rubber Room for four months. Alone. Which explains why she seems to have lost it just a little. Sam’s just turned up. He doesn’t know what he did to get there. At least, that’s what he says.

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think of all the fun you’ll find in the rubber room is a darkly comic exploration of what happens to people when they have only time on their hands.

“Uther Dean’s direction is intensely physical, with intriguing moments . . . The world is topsy turvey.” Lynn Freeman, Capital Times for DOORS. WALLS. AND ALSO SILENCE

Starring: Hannah Banks (Death and the Dreamlife of Elephants) and Paul Waggott (Dog Sees God)

From my accomplice, the company that brought you the critically acclaimed DOORS. WALLS. AND ALSO SILENCE

More information about ‘rubber rooms’

New York Times: October 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/10/education/10education.html
Rubber Room Documentary: June 2009
http://boingboing.net/2009/06/28/rubber-room-document.html

www.myaccomplice.net
www.fringe.co.nz

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