Spend The Long Weekend At Bats Theatre

Spend The Long Weekend At Bats Theatre

THE LONG WEEKEND by the Polaroid Collective
BATS Theatre, Wellington

6.30-7.30pm Tuesday 31 January - 4 February 2012 (Waitangi Weekend)

Directed and produced by Christine Brooks

Bookings at BATS Theatre: (04) 802 4175 or email book@bats.co.nz


Wellington’s newest improv ensemble The Polaroid Collective has been invited back to BATS Theatre to present a full season of the NZ Improv Festival’s hit show The Long Weekend. Winning awards for Best Concept and Best Ensemble, the show was the critical success of the Festival in October 2011 (“pure bliss on stage together... and a group to look out for” - Theatreview).

“The Long Weekend is a story about old friends on a journey,” explains director and producer Christine Brooks. “The further they travel, the closer they get to home. Every night the destination is different, and the truth of the relationships between these people revealed.”

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This very New Zealand show has drawn on training in Radical Improv and Tragic Improv from the US East Coast. Brooks describes the show as “challenging preconceptions about theatre improvisation and creating something New Zealand audiences have not seen before.”

“We want to tell stories in which New Zealanders recognise themselves. The long weekend at a kiwi bach is such a New Zealand experience and rich with stories and characters we know. We are thrilled the response has been so warm and to be back at BATS for Waitangi weekend.”

The Polaroid Collective has been formed to create spontaneous theatre about New Zealanders and includes some of Wellington’s most experienced improv artists - Brandon Brooks, Christine Brooks, Nicola Hill, Paul Sullivan, and Karen Anslow with Tane Upjohn-Beatson on music and Darryn Woods on effects.

ENDS

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