Category: Comedy

Jekyll & Hyde Encore Season

Camp, over the top and madcap are elements I’ve come to love with local theatre company ‘A Slightly Isolated Dog’.  And their encore season of Jekyll & Hyde comes back with their well-turned flamboyance. Like all their shows, this is…

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Romantic Comedy in Divine Settings

Galathea: Into the Bush, on now at the gorgeous Grand Hall of the The Public Trust Building is a show about sex and sexuality.  A celebration of diversity and being a bit of an idiot in love, GITB literally sparkles…

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A Kind of Magic at BATS

I’ve spent most of tonight feeling like a grown-up five-year-old and it has been glorious. With a huge grins on our faces my plus one and I clapped and cheered our way through card tricks, rope tricks, illusions and mental…

Don Juan With a Twist

When you enter the venue you enter the show already. The cast of Production Comedy ‘A Slightly Isolated Dog’ roams S&M’s introducing themselves and being very inviting. They develop storylines with the audience as we unwittingly become part of the…

RUKAHU at BATS Theatre

Having missed Rukahu at last year’s Fringe Festival, I jumped at the chance to review this new version of it – reformatted for a black box theatre. Having lost their opening night to the combined effects of earthquakes and storms,…

Live Comedy with a Sprinkling of Live Music – Rock’n’Lols

Rock’n’Lols The lure of an event containing two of my favourite things at an unconventional venue was enough to draw me away from my usual Wednesday night comedy show, and I’m glad I went along. Rock ‘n’ Lols is organized…

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Blacklight Comedy Club 10

The Blacklight Comedy Club is a tickler for your cerebral functions. It’s a curated comedy show on the last Thursday of every month at Moon 1. As you enter, DJ Sci-FX is spinning his finest galactic tracks, setting the scene…