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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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