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      • HATAITAI TIMES

        Sunday 14 March 2020, 12pm - 10pm

        Fringe at the Gryphon, 22 Ghuznee St

        The roar of the presses! The clatter of typewriters! The promising whiff of a hot scoop!


        Soap Factory takes you back to the golden age of print media, where feelings fight for column inches and local stories have global consequences. Join us in the offices of The Hataitai Times, a small suburban newspaper with big dreams and even bigger personalities, for a 10-hour improvised soap opera marathon that unfolds over a single day.


        Each hour between noon and 10pm brings another exciting episode in the lives of our local media heroes, from the people who brought you Bay's Anatomy: Animal Hospital, So You Think You Khandallah?, and Deep Space Naenae. Every line, plot twist, and meaningful glance is made up on the spot. Come for a single episode or stay for the whole day: once you watch three episodes, the rest are on us!


        It's high time for high times at The Hataitai Times.


        “plenty of soap bubbles foaming in this steaming creative cauldron” — Theatreview


        “By the cliffhanger ending of episode two, I’m hooked... the 4 episodes I see each increase in depth and tension, and having to go to the foyer in between episodes feels like the buffering symbol on a Breaking Bad binge.” — Theatreview

      • BAY'S ANATOMY: ANIMAL HOSPITAL

        Wellington Fringe Festival 2020 at Fringe at the Gryphon

        There's a lot on the line when every patient's the goodest girl, boy, or lizard. Enter NZ's leading animal hospital (owned and operated by Drs. Evans and Shelly Bay) for an all-day residency of the heart, where medical professionals save lives every hour... but can they save their own? A new improvised soap opera from the creators of Deep Space Naenae, Lyall Baywatch, and Mirror Miramar.

         

        Part of the Wellington Fringe Festival

         

        Directed by Jennifer O’Sullivan and featuring Soap Factory members Christine Brooks, Clare Kerrison, Dianne Pulham, Jonny Paul, Liam Kelly, Lyndon Hood, Matt Powell, Sam Irwin, Steven Youngblood, Tara McEntee, and Wiremu Tuhiwai

         

      • SO YOU THINK YOU KHANDALLAH

        2019 NZ Comedy Festival at BATS Theatre

        "You’ve got talent. Now let's see what we can do with it."

        It's 1982 and we're gonna live forever, but first we have to go through the blood, sweat and tears of Khandallah Academy of Performing Arts. A totally improvised soap opera about fitting in, standing out, finding ourselves and following our dreams. From the creators of Deep Space Naenae, Lyall Baywatch, and Mirror Miramar comes a brand new serial - follow the ongoing story nightly or dip your toes in for just one episode!

        Warning: May contain leg warmers and sudden dance breaks.

        “Countless moments of improvisational gold” - Theatreview
        “Impressively epic improv” - Theatreview

         

        Part of the NZ International Comedy Festival

         

        Starring:

        Christine Brooks as Peppermint Sparkle

        Matt Hutton as Quane Lively

        Sam Irwin as Albatross Adams

        Liam Kelly as Jack Traddles

        Jennifer O'Sullivan as Sheryl Farmers

        Matt Powell as Ruduolf Channing

        Dianne Pulham as Amelia Love

        Tara McEntee as Jasmine Cholmondley III

        Wiremu Tuhiwai as Chad Mikaere Michaels

        with live direction from Clare Kerrison as Tatum Channing and Luke Rimmelzwaan as Dr Bruce Rizzleswizzle

        and support from Lyndon Hood as Audi Charade

         

      • MIRROR MIRAMAR

        2018 NZ Fringe Festival at Scruffy Bunny Improv Theatre

        Once upon a time, on a peninsula not so far away, lived a town of strangely familiar characters living strangely normal lives… Folklore and fairytales are transported to modern-day Miramar in this ten hour improvathon.

         

        You followed them into the stars in Deep Space Naenae, across the waves in Lyall Baywatch, and back to school in 13: The Soap; now Soap Factory wants to take you on a fantastical journey into the everyday. Starting at 12pm, with new episodes hourly and a cast of hilarious and talented improvisors powering through till 10pm, this is improv at its most intense - a single unfolding story over 10 hours. Come for just one episode, or stay and find out who will get their happy ending!

         

        Starring:

        Sam Irwin as Jack Stockton
        Kate Whitaker as Goldie Lockhart
        Jonny Paul as Dr Myron M an der Waal
        Christine Brooks as Rumpy
        Wiremu Tuhiwai as Tim Burwood
        Steven Youngblood as Keith Grant
        Matt Powell as Ramón Prince
        Clare Kerrison as Nana Crawford
        Dianne Pulham as Alanna Lott
        Jennifer O'Sullivan as Lilian Rouge

        Liam Kelly as The Enchanted Tree

      • DEEP SPACE NAENAE

        2017 NZ Fringe Festival at BATS Theatre

        2117. A distant quadrant of the galaxy.

         

        New Zealand’s greatest adventurers live out their space lives and space dramas aboard Deep Space Naenae. Join our intrepid space crew as they improvise for ten space hours straight, ten space episodes in a row, ten thousand light years away. In space.

         

        From the creators of Lyall Baywatch, Awkward Threesome, and Late Night Knife Fight comes yet another epic soap opera improvathon. Starting at 1pm, with new episodes hourly and a cast of hilarious and talented improvisors powering through till 11pm, this is improv at its most intense – a single unfolding story over 10 hours.

         

        "You won't regret it. This is impressively epic improv."

        — Theatreview

         

        "The sense of watching a well-established troupe at work enhances the pleasure this performance gives. The audience is happily won over – and stays that way. "

        — Theatreview

         

        Starring:

        Liam Kelly as Miles Davis
        Clare Kerrison as Wātea
        Darryn Woods as Computer / Grabthan
        Steven Youngblood as Keith Grant (deceased)
        Linda Calgaro as Sol Pew-Pew
        Sam Irwin as See-Saw Jones
        Lyndon Hood as Lexus CX5 and Fiat Astra
        Christine Brooks as Ambassador Hippolyta
        Jed Davies as Ambassador Tibb-Lubb Plem
        Dianne Pulham as Counsellor Fisher Paykell
        Matt Powell as Lt Cmdr Parathrax
        Brendon Bennetts as Chief Engineer Cormac O'Tube
        Jennifer O'Sullivan as Mallory "Hot Six" Rix
        Laura Irish as Jr Officer Xaria Yex
        Wiremu Tuhiwai as Captain Samson OP Blue

      • LYALL BAYWATCH

        2016 NZ Fringe Festival at Fringe at the Gryphon

        Hot Sand. Dirty Secrets. A Beachy Soap Opera Unfolding Hour by Hour.

         

        From the people who brought you the lives and times of Sweet Aro Valley High in 13: The Soap (nominated Best Improv, Fringe 2015) comes a new, sexy, sun-tanned story. Join Kickin’ Rad at Fringe at the Gryphon for Lyall Baywatch – a ten episode epic soap opera featuring the hunkiest honeys this side of Wellington Harbour. Lifeguards, surfers, dog walkers: they’ll keep you safe on their shores or they’ll die trying.
         

        Kicking off at 1pm with shows every hour on the hour, Lyall Baywatch will see some of Wellington’s top improvisors push their comedy chops to the limit as they create and inhabit characters inspired by the combination of Baywatch babes and Lyall Bay locals for 10 hours straight. Every storyline, saga and episodic climax will be completely improvised - anything could happen (and probably will).

         

        Lyall Baywatch is directed by Jennifer O’Sullivan and stars hilarious improvisors with far-too-fond memories of David Hasslehoff’s red beach shorts. Come for one episode or stay all day and work on your theatre tan.

         

        Starring:

        Lyndon Hood as Chrysler Mondeo
        Dianne Pulham as Dawn Nightingale
        Sam Irwin as Dr Seventeen Fitzgerald
        Wiremu Tuhiwai as Tiopira Jones
        Steven Youngblood as Keith Grant
        Clare Kerrison as Mrs Jane Robinson
        Jed Davies as Calder Spade
        Jennifer O'Sullivan as Lake Brooks
        Jonny Paul as Christian Fury
        Matt Powell as Blake Forrest
        Kate Whitaker as Southerly Swell

      • Photos by Ali Little

      • 13: THE SOAP

        2015 NZ Fringe Festival at Fringe at the Gryphon

        A school year’s worth of drama in just one day. Head back to high school and join year 13 students and their teachers as they navigate life, love and laughs in 1995.

         

        Starring:
        Mary Little as Gerda Schleissinger and The Detective
        Christine Brooks as Anne and Servants Etc.
        Lori Leigh as Coach Terri Bull
        Rose Cann as SalvaDOPE and Magalie
        Jennifer O'Sullivan as Kacey Grant
        Steven Youngblood as Keith Grant
        Lyndon Hood as Bentley Skyline
        Jed Davies as Mitchell and Gavin
        Sam Irwin as Sammy Sharpe and Cameron Hawke
        Wiremu Tuhiwai as Ben
        Matt Powell as Philippe l’Escalier and José Sangria

      © 2019 Kickin' Rad Productions

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