NZ Fringe Festival 2010

Pirates vs Ninjas - Which one would you choose? And what happens when you throw in Gypsy, a Viking, a Guerrilla Terrorist, a Cowboy, an Aeronaut and Sasquatsch? A council meeting crossed with a celebrity death match, Pirates vs Ninjas centres around the emergency meeting of the Clans of Freedom. Humanities forces of freedom and anarchy are at war, and the Clans must unite together to defeat their foe. But will they be able to bury their own grievances to unite as allies?

Wolverine, Colin 'Pinetree' Meads and Bob Saget are men. But if we probed them deeper . . . past the adamantium skeleton, the black jersey and the Full House façade . . . what would we find?

"He was here before the beginning and will still be here after the end." Come have a seat and a drink at The Pit Bar as Dan Slevin plays "The Immortal" in this unusual adaptation of a story by acclaimed author Martin Amis. ("The Immortals" from Einstein's Monsters © 1987. All rights reserved.)

in this exploration on the effects of power on ordinary people. The company took on roles as prisoners or guards and lived for six days in a rural community hall while devising the script. <em><strong>Fractur is the result.</em></strong>

Meet Toby. He’s in a lot of trouble, he’s falling apart, has just run away from his Hare Krishna temple and desperately needs some onion and garlic in his life. Toby has seriously snapped! Hiding out in an alleyway, come see what happens when Buddha goes on a bender and Krishna has gone crazy.

An ethereal, miniature puppet show - filmed live and projected to the deep, pulsing sound of the cello by Francesca Mountfort. Dense textures, soaring melodies, sparse and gentle tones are the sound of Nervous Doll Dancing.

Everyone is special, right? Climb aboard our mobile classroom to join us in asking: what if you're just not?

They say everyone has a story to tell – and we’re telling them. Bare Hunt Collective brings you <em><strong>back/words</em></strong>, a new piece of documentary theatre. Five of Wellington’s freshest acting talent have gone out into the community to interview a range of Wellington individuals – everyone from an eight year old girl, to an elderly couple, to a young gay man.

A 50 minute dark comedy, telling the story of the buffoons Bones, Meat, Guts, Skin, Blood and a Herald as they celebrate a birthday in their own skewed and twisted way.

The Greek Gods and Heroes you know and love now have a new home, atop Wellington's own Mt Victoria. Witness the creation of new myths and legends as the daily squabbles and dramas of the Gods and Heroes invariably spill over into the world of the Kiwi mortals.

What would humanity be without stories?

"If I were he and he were me, would we see things differently?" What happens if you loved someone so unsuitable that the sky would shatter, earth would shake... inevitably your heart will break.

A science fiction musical comedy of galactic proportions. Watch as Scarlett and T2500 android sing and dance their way through the cosmos towards the membrane of no return. Will they be crushed at the centre of the black hole or will they be thrust into a new dimension and a new life?

Peter Blouse owns YUM Pineapple, a company that, whilst successful, is no world beater. Blouse soon ends up with a new product on his hands - a product that takes the company from strength to strength: YUM Pineapple's brand new Red Pineapple. What is it? Why is it so good? More than this I cannot say. But all will be revealed.

The story of two dysfunctional households and the lighter that came between them. “... I’m gonna get killed by some “serial masturbator’s sex deprived… widow.” Jack’s dark secret is found out by his stoner neighbours and lives are changed forever... all because Fran wouldn’t let Jack use her Pink Lighter. Directed by Patrick Graham

Performance Poetry in The Pit Bar at BATS! Australian artist Blind presents a grimy teen romance set in the flash-flooded streets of Bubonic Plague era Manila. All the sweeping drama of The English Patient compacted in to 25 minutes and injected rather than watched. Includes DIY vibrator-making workshop!

Two actors: eight characters; one fateful highschool day… Harassed drama teacher Cynthia Ruby is pushed to the brink by teenage delinquent Shelby- for the last time. The Best of Auckland Fringe 09 smacks down in Wellington with the show that left audiences “laughing uncontrollably”(Theatreview). "A little gem" (Theatreview).

“The Andrews Sisters, Edith Piaf and The Soggy Bottom Boys all rolled into one.”

Clowntheatre in the traditition of Slava’s Snowshow... An angel falls to Earth and must find his way back to Heaven. A touching and humorous depiction of the quest for enlightenment brought magically to life by CircoArts tutor, Olli Ricken and director, Lucette Hindin (the clinic).