MEDIA RELEASE: For Immediate Release
Tuesday 27 January, 2015
Kickin Rad’ Productions presents:
13: The Soap
A whole school year of drama in just one day
1995. A world before texting with no less subtext; with no Facebook but no less unfriending. Back when grunge was cool,
pop was bubblegum, and Toy Story 1 was released). Where fashion was tartan, and midriff’d, and fluro. And sometimes
double denim. Back where, before it was year 13, we called it seventh form.
13: The Soap is thirteen hours of theatre, with nine 80 minute episodes in a row starting at 10am Saturday morning and finishing
late Saturday night. A whole school year’s worth of drama in just one day, performed by a host of Wellington’s top
improvisors and guests. Head back to high school and join year 13 students or 7th form, as they would have been) and
their teachers as they navigate life, love and laughs in 1995.
“Fringe is a time to try something big. And really, what feels bigger than your last year of high school?” says director
Jennifer O’Sullivan.
“13: The Soap will feel like those days - a tumultuous, teenage time where everything is either the best or the worst thing that
happens to you. A soap opera is exactly the space for that. The whole day will see a spontaneously created cast of
characters go through an entire year’s worth of drama and we want to bring the audience along for that ride, whether
they come to one episode or marathon it with us.”
With tickets available for individual episodes along with a season pass to allow audience to come and go as they please,
your experience of the soap is as intense or fleeting as you desire. Come along for the first and last episodes, or pack
a picnic and settle in for the journey back to the 90s.
Will the senior students make it through their final year in one piece? Will their hearts? Will the teachers maintain
their work/life balance and professionalism in the workplace? Or will all melodrama break loose? And, most importantly:
will our actors survive 13 hours in character?
Directed by Jennifer O’Sullivan (The Young and the WITless VI and VII, Riddiford St Season 3) and starring a plethora of talented improvisors, all with their own memories of high school and the 90s ready for the
reliving. 13 hours of immersive, improvised theatre: come for the laughs, stay for the heart.
“Fairly hums and froths with authentic soap opera spin” - The Young and the WITless VII, Theatreview
13: The Soap
Dates: 10am - 11:30pm, Saturday 21 February
(Episodes start every 90 minutes)
Venue: Fringe at the Gryphon, 22 Ghuznee St
Tickets: $10 / $8 per episode, or go the distance with your $40 season pass!
Book at fringe.co.nz or find us on Eventfinda
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