Poet vs Pageant - 2018 NZ Fringe Wellington Trailer
Come get swept away on an amazing adventure full of blood, sweat and tans. March 609
BATS Theatre, 1 Kent Tce
Book online bats.co.nz or call (04) 802 4175
Command Performance - Bats Theatre Wellington
Command Performance - 8th May 2012
Vance Fontaine and the Peculiar Sensations final song on opening night
BATS Theatre, New Zealand
DILFdoesvacuuming
Chore-porn video#2 from 2017 NZ Fringe Festival comedy show DILF. BATS Theatre March 1-4, tickets on sale now from bats.co.nz/whats-on/dilf/
Dan Adams: Witches' Cauldron Scene from Shakespeare's Macbeth live at This Love Will Undo Us All, Bats Theatre, Wellington New Zealand, 2004: www.myspace.com/danadamsnz
Composed by Dan Adams as part of This Love Will Undo Us All, a collection of sonnets, song lyrics and dialogue by William Shakespeare. Performed by Dan Adams (lead vocals, conga), Douglas Voon (lead conga, backing vocals) and Sebastian Morgan Lynch (cello). For more Dan Adams videos, mp3s, links and info, visit myspace.com/danadamsnz
I Am Not Margaret Mahy at BATS Theatre, May 2018
I Am Not Margaret Mahy
Based on Mahy's Notes of a Bag Lady.
Adapted and performed by Jane Waddell. Directed by Stella Reid.
Trailer by Emma Robinson.
BATS Theatre, 1 Kent Terrace, Wellington. 22 - 26 May 2018, 6.30pm.
Voodoo (Live at BATS Theatre)
Nation playing through their original song just in time for NZ Music Month.
Using Sennheiser Mics and in ear monitoring system.
QSC Touchmix16 and Logic Pro X for backing tracks.
Nord, Axefx, Ibanez, Tama.
Curtains of a Candle - Max Duncan
Curtains of a Candle philosophically dramatises the one compelling aspect of our entire existence - our relationship with Death. It aims to balance 'the beauty' with 'the darkness' by personifying the three probing players - Death as Jayne, Humanity as Dylan, and Life as trees, time clocks and bananas. It combines dress, poetry, light, sound and dance to form a powerful and emotive experience.
Make sure you watch this loud and in the dark.
BATS Theatre, Wellington, New Zealand - March 2018.
Production, Poetry, Fashion Design by Max Duncan
Dance by Tessa Brown
Music by Andrew Denison
Animation, Illustration by Luiggi Riccio
Make-Up by Ruth Whelan
Presented by Mooson Hooson.
Filmed and edited by Onepost Media.
GE2111 Wellington
GE2111- Image of the City- Wellington, New Zealand
Prepared by:
Tabitha Wilson 40079390
Emma Davey 40085311
Viktoria Micheeva 40089438
Viktoria Schülein 40089426
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Fa'aafa | Bats Theatre | New Zealand Fringe Festival | 2018
“Born to disrupt I am Samoa’s only freedom, her last resistance, Fa’atama, Fa’afafine, Fa’aafa: we who live in between”
A BODY REALISING ITSELF IN THE PRESENT WHILST WARPING AND PUSHING TRADITIONAL AND ANCIENT MOVEMENT IS AN IMPORTANT EVENT, A DISRUPTION IN ITSELF
Jahra ‘Rager’ Wasasala - The Pantograph Punch.
Fa’aafa combines Samoan oral traditions, adornment, movement and sound. Juxtaposed against the colour and contrast of modern digital projection, Fa’aafa creates a gripping and responsive Samoan fāgogo (fable) for young urban polynesians. Created by digital native Pati Solomona Tyrell this work unveils a world known only to Samoans through whispers.
As a lens based media artist Tyrell’s story telling is immersive and world building. At its centre is his body, his culture and his community. Described in the image note for the publication Black Marks on the White Page edited by Witi Ihimaera and Tina Makereti, Fa’aafa is referred to as “A portal into another world, its colours saturated by night and desire and the youthful swagger of its subjects, whose eyes issue a challenge and invitation”
Devised in 2015 as a solo performance Fa’aafa has travelled across Aotearoa for the past two years as a cultural Acti-VA-tion; a term coined by iconic Pacific artist Rosana Raymond. The ‘VA’ refers to a Samoan philosophical understanding of space as ‘active’, not as empty and passive, but activated by people, relationships and reciprocal obligations.
Featuring a new cast of emerging and established performers, and an entirely new soundscape and visual design, with poetry by award winning Samoan poet Tusiata Avia, Fa’aafa will adorn a new silhouette for a new audience.
The Creative Team
FAFSWAG is an arts collective working collaboratively to activate public and digital space with innovative interdisciplinary work from emerging and established indigenous LGBT artists.
Featuring Joey Tinai, Falencie Filipo, Moe Laga. With poetry by renowned Samoan poet Tusiata Avia.
Accessibility
The Propeller Stage is fully wheelchair accessible; please contact the BATS Box Office by 4.30pm on the show day if you have accessibility requirements so that the appropriate arrangements can be made. Read more about accessibility at BATS.
BREAKING NEWS: NZ pop duo, Tyla and Deni$, sighted in Wellington
BREAKING NEWS: Rap legend,Tyla of iconic NZ pop duo Tyla and Deni$ has been seen exiting BATS Theatre in central Wellington. It is believed she was rehearsing a new show with a local cast of teenage dancers. The long forgotten pair are in the city ahead of the release of their highly anticipated new album Redemption” at The Better Best Possible ALBUM PARTY That Anyone Has Ever Been Two
The Border Wellington Fringe Festival 2018
The Border
Wellington Fringe Festival 2018
Written and directed by Manuel Saez
Video by: @camila.illustration
Cast: Manuel Saez and Anastasia Dolinina
Production and visuals: Camila Fernandez
Visuals and light operator: Camila Zurita
Part of 2018 Fringe Festival Wellington New Zealand
Bats Theatre
@smokocompany
smokocompany@gmail.com
Boosted! Wellington Young Actors present Twelfth Night
Wellington Young Actors are an award-winning theatre company made up of 12-17 year olds. Help us to put on Twelfth Night at BATS Theatre!
Sometimes I Don't Like Yellow - Trailer - Rage
Ah, look at that. So charming. And yet so sinister.
Hi. We are making a show in the Fringe called 'Sometimes I Don't Like Yellow'. It's a sort of comedy with a few serious moments and there is this really awesome bit with a cellphone and a robot. It's kinda about pineapple and decisions and lisps and trips to the moon and honesty and robots and loads of other really awesome things.
You should come, we think you'll really like it.
BATS theatre
8pm
26 Feb - 2 Mar 2010
$16/$13
book@bats.co.nz
(04) 802 4175
With Hannah Banks, Kate Clarkin, Patrick Keenan, Louise Lethbridge, Laura Velvin, Paul Waggott, Sam Woodward and Elle Wootton.
Directed by Uther Dean.
Part of the 2010 Wellington Fringe Festival
Made with help from Creative New Zealand by way of the Kakano Fund.
my accomplice. is Hannah Banks, Uther Dean and Paul Waggott. They like theatre.
Sometimes I Don't Like Yellow - Trailer - Eating
Ah, look at that. So charming. And yet so sinister.
Hi. We are making a show in the Fringe called 'Sometimes I Don't Like Yellow'. It's a sort of comedy with a few serious moments and there is this really awesome bit with a cellphone and a robot. It's kinda about pineapple and decisions and lisps and trips to the moon and honesty and robots and loads of other really awesome things.
You should come, we think you'll really like it.
BATS theatre
8pm
26 Feb - 2 Mar 2010
$16/$13
book@bats.co.nz
(04) 802 4175
With Hannah Banks, Kate Clarkin, Patrick Keenan, Louise Lethbridge, Laura Velvin, Paul Waggott, Sam Woodward and Elle Wootton.
Directed by Uther Dean.
Part of the 2010 Wellington Fringe Festival
Made with help from Creative New Zealand by way of the Kakano Fund.
my accomplice. is Hannah Banks, Uther Dean and Paul Waggott. They like theatre.
Bats Theatre
Bats and Spotlight Reporting is a case study which shows how a Not-For-Profit uses our tools to add value to their business
BATS Theatre 18th Birthday Party
We turned 18 - and we celebrated! With such visionaries as The Real Hot Bitches, The Eggs, The Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra, and Ivanja Debrowska! Filmed by the talented Glen, Will and Dan!
PlayShop presents Christmas Actually
Christmas Actually
12-16th December 2017
BATS Theatre
Wellington, New Zealand
The Woolshed Sessions - Stringing Me Along
In late 2007 a bunch of Wellington musicians got together in an old woolshed near Takaka to record some songs. From this summertime project The Woolshed Sessions was born.
Distinguished by lashings of lap-steel guitar, lush vocal harmony sing-a-longs and banjo punctuations, The Woolshed Sessions debut album is in-store and online this October 2008. To mark the occasion the musicians will reunite at Bats Theatre, Wellington and The Nelson Arts Festival in October, bringing The Woolshed Sessions experience live on stage...
100% New Zealand Music
Bat's Theatre
Bats Theatre has seen a variety of rainbow related productions including 'Confessions of a Drag Queen', 'Corner 4am and Cuba' - a play about the hate murder of Wellington teenager Jeff Whittington in 1999, and the youth collaborative theatre piece 'That's So Gay' in 2012. In this recording participants of 'That’s So Gay' talk about the production.
This video is part of a self-guided walk tour of the Wellington waterfront - for more information visit
Photography credit: Stefanie Upchurch