SEEyD presents The Spy Who Wouldn’t Die Again

The Spy Who Wouldn’t Die Again
He’ll save the world – no worries.

The year is 1985...

America listens to We Are the World and watches WrestleMania while the French plan to bomb a ship in the South Pacific and a team of crack surgeons bomb a polyp in President Reagan’s colon. In Soviet Russia, Mikhail Gorbachev sets about dismantling the apparatus of the state and installing the spare parts in his Lada.

Meanwhile, in a quiet Kiwi shed, a backyard inventor makes a breakthrough that could revolutionise the energy industry, inadvertently turning small-town New Zealand into the hottest battlefield in the Cold War.

Mrs Thatcher urgently dispatches MI6’s most available agent, Stephen St Clair (009) on a desperate mission to stop the technology falling into the wrong hands. But a rogue British agent, ironically with no hands at all, has got there first. And a sultry French spy with her hands over everything threatens to catch 009 with his pants down.

Sex, death, gadgets and some rather hideous prosthetic limbs run amok in this smash hit(man) comedy from multi-award winning theatre-makers, SEEyD.

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A powerhouse of the New Zealand performing arts scene, SEEyD, led by founder Tim Spite, has been making original theatre since 2000. They’ve been described as having “profound creativity and theatrical flair” (Salient 2010).

As a Downstage Presenting Partner, SEEyD has produced The December Brother (2010), Turbine (2009), and Paua (2008) and developed into something extremely rare and special: a NZ theatre company with name recognition and a distinct reputation. SEEyD is known for the intelligence, inventiveness and social relevance of its work.

This time SEEyD have set out to make something a little different: returning to his comedic roots, Tim Spite, along with co-author Gabe McDonnell, has created a madcap genre-spoof, full of physical comedy and theatrical trickery, albeit with SEEyD’s signature political intelligence, lending the comedy a sharp satirical edge.

Always ambitious, always surprising, always exciting, SEEyD is ready to unleash the most spectacular comedy thrill-ride you’ve ever experienced in a theatre. Like an 80’s action blockbuster live on stage, this is theatre on steroids.

The Spy Who Wouldn’t Die Again
Written by Tim Spite & Gabe McDonnell
Developed by SEEyD Theatre Company in partnership with Downstage

Performing @ Downstage

31 Mar – 23 Apr

Tickets can be purchased online, by phone at (04) 801 6946 or in person at Downstage’s box office. For up-to-date information visit www.downstage.co.nz

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