HOUSE OF ICK
24 – 28 Mar, 8.30pm. Studio.
House of Ick is bursting at the seams with outrageous characters, c*nty musical numbers, visceral messy sketches, and the best cringe you could hope for. Ginge & Minge (Nina Hogg & Megan Connolly) serve as your sickening hosts on the road to hot (but disgusting) enlightenment and show you around the wonderful characters that lurk within its shadows. The doors to the House of Ick are open and you WILL be converted.
WINNER of the Most Spectacular Organised Chaos Award 2025 at NZ Fringe Festival.
“more stimulating than anything playing at the theatre” – The Regional News
“It made me love stupid.” – Audience member
Delight in their hypothetical kissing doctors, believe in their real life shared pelvic floor physiotherapist, and avert your eyes from organic Hastings marketplace solutions. Prepare for German electronica, monster energy fueled children and 80s power suits. If you enjoy electric chemistry, drag performance, spectacle, second-hand embarrassment, and just delighting in a good time, this show is for you!!!!!!
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BUCK SCOURGE: LIVING NIGHTMARE
26 – 27 Mar, 6.30pm. Studio. Choose What You Pay.
Dancing playfully on the line between being joyful genuinely and performing for others is the devilishly cheeky BUCK SCOURGE.
“Child-like absurdity and a twinkly eye of menace” says Chloe Jacques from Theatreview, but what will you say?
Described as “brain rot but in real life”, Dugdale-Martin delivers their clown show all about play. Fresh from clown school where they graduated with the illustrious Stupidest Face Award (joke?) this clown from Wellington, New Zealand has curated a show of tried and true stupid scenes.
If you’re happy not knowing exactly what’s going on, if you need an ESCAPE from the RAT RACE, if you need a break but can’t afford a KitKat (the candy or the club), come see BUCK run AMOCK (very proud of this).
Read more here: Something Funny Is Happening Here.
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Two people on a stage, set in a kitchen but there’s no cooking and we’re both dressed in evening wear
25 Mar, 6.30pm. Studio. Choose What You Pay.
Barnie and Ella are making a show about being adults – this is what they have come up with after 3 days work. Come and observe, and help make theatrical history
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Bull Rush
27 Mar, 10pm. Studio. Choose What You Pay.
No Friday night will ever be the same again.
With a roster of Tāmaki Makaurau’s best and brightest performers, expect spit-take worthy gags, epic stories, heartbreaking tales, and live improvised music at Bull Rush.
So gather your mates for a night of never before seen, totally made up, improvised comedy every Rāmere Friday.
Mess with the bull, feel the rush.
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Five Films For Freedom – Screening
28 Mar, 6.30pm. Theatre. Free Event.
Join us for a special screening of Five Films For Freedom, the world’s widest reaching LGBTQIA+ online celebration.
A partnership between Basement Theatre the British Council NZ and Pacific and BFI Flare; London’s LGBTQIA+ film festival, Five Films For Freedom makes five international LGBTQIA+ short films available to watch as a free public screening in partnership with Basement Theatre!
Please register your ticket using the book now button to secure your seat!
Come support your local, bring your friends and enjoy five beautifully curated short films that celebrate, showcase, explore and implore thought provoking kōrero, whakaaro around LGBTQ+ themes and story.
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Milli
7 – 11 Apr, 6.30pm. Studio. Choose What You Pay.
MILLI is a fiercely Mexican, unapologetically queer work which rips open masochism and defends culture as the body itself.
Fusing physicality and genre into the sacred rituals of corn, this work challenges the binaries and silences that still shape queer identity.
Late at night, the city starts lying. In the wake of something violent, something enters this person’s life and doesn’t leave quietly. It takes over his body, his thinking, his sense of safety. What looks like love starts behaving more like risk, exposure, dependency, damage… or is it?
Part neo-noir fever dream, part cabaret ritual, this close-range solo follows what happens when the first experience of love isn’t gentle when it collides with identity, desire, survival, and the need to be seen.
Supported by Rainbow New Zealand Charitable Trust & Rule Foundation
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I Was Born To Speak
14 – 18 Apr, 6.30pm. Studio. Choose What You Pay.
In a country where it feels like Te Reo Māori voices are still being silenced, now is the time to SPEAK UP!
Join Billy Reynolds McCarthy as he blends spoken word poetry, theatre, and Kapa Haka to shine light on the silence Te Iwi Māori have felt for generations.
By adorning the different taonga that have been passed down by his loved one’s. Billy takes on the many personas of his whānau to tell the different sides of the same story. Declaring to make up for every word not spoken.
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SELENE
16 – 18 Apr, 8pm. Theatre.
A story about the goddess and the dark side of the moon.
A young girl is watching the moon landings on repeat, entranced by those astronaut’s weightlessness.
A bunch of teenagers are swimming under a lunar eclipse, lost in what might happen next.
A mis-matched couple are watching a horror film at a drive in cinema, about to step into all the next stuff.
SELENE is a radical explosion of an ancient myth.
It’s about how we grow up defined by our bodies.
It’s about the light sides of us and the dark sides of us.
And it’s about the stuff inside us. All the wild stuff inside of us.
A new sibling show to the hugely acclaimed HELIOS which toured Aotearoa in 2024. SELENE is an intimate theatre experience with cinematic score and striking storytelling. Told by and made with Megan Drury.
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