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Tag: fringe bar

June 8, 2024

Review: The Transgender Agender

I’m here on the ground at Wellington’s Fringe Bar to catch a show at the tail end of the 2024 New Zealand Inter­na­tion­al Com­e­dy Fes­ti­val — The Trans­gen­der Agen­der. This line­up of fab­u­lous trans and/or non-bina­ry come­di­ans made much mer­ri­ment on the last Sat­ur­day of this year’s NZICF, much to the joy of their sold-out […]

Emma Maguire
Theatre
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February 27, 2023

Review: Best on Tap Stands Up

The Fringe Bar is packed to the gills for Best on Tap Stands Up, a lit­tle out of the ordi­nary for a Sun­day crowd, but this is a Fringe show and this is a Fringe crowd, and Best on Tap are an excel­lent­ly well-estab­lished per­for­mance com­pa­ny, so per­haps I should­n’t be sur­prised. More well-known as […]

Emma Maguire
Comedy
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May 16, 2019

Review: Big Dumb Cats

We are all just big dumb cats, stum­bling around on two legs, expect­ing our feline over­lords to hunt food for us to keep us alive. Daniel John Smith’s Big Dumb Cats is part cat facts, part fam­i­ly para­ble, and all great com­e­dy with a poignant mes­sage. Smith’s in the midst of an excit­ing office fash­ion […]

Emma Maguire
Comedy
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June 14, 2018

Naked girls. Reading. In Wellington.

In advance of Naked Girls Read­ing; the moth­er­hood edi­tion this Sat­ur­day at the Fringe Bar, I put a few ques­tions to its pro­duc­er, Hugo Grrrl. Okay, first off. Naked girls read­ing — what in the heck is this? And who are you? Naked Girls Read­ing is exact­ly what it sounds like — it’s com­plete­ly naked […]

Joanna
Comedy / Community / Festival / Theatre
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