On paper, Dirty Passports is a collection and celebration of the best BIPOC storytellers and spoken word artists in Aotearoa. As it transpired, it was an emotional rollercoaster. According to curator and ...
After a wildly successful run at Auckland Fringe this year, and awards to show for it, I am Rachel Chu has returned to the Basement Theatre to give us another hit of cultural commentary and raucous hilarity.
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Like Sex | The Basement Theatre | 24 May-3 June, 6:30pm
Review by Jennifer Kirby
If you attended high school in New Zealand, chances are you remember the horror that was the dreaded “beep test.” Designed to...
During the Auckland Fringe Festival, the Basement Theatre is transformed into a 'Performance Salon' - think Moulin Rouge at the beach – where works of all kinds pop up around you as you lounge and drink in betw...
Hippolytus Veiled outraged the Greeks, a people not known for their dramatic, moral or sexual restraint. So, modernised, and performed in the close surrounds of The Basement Theatre, Nathan Joe’s take on the pl...
Love, lust and lies. Nobody did it better than the Greeks.
Euripides was one of the great playwrights of ancient Greece, known for the many tragedies he wrote, and his scandalous lost play Hippolytus Veiled sh...