Slapstick Hits Back
Theatre Beating's
Happy Hour for Miserable Children
The Edge: Herald Theatre
19- 30 September
Tues-Sun 8pm - Sat 2pm
In a run down old go-go bar, glitzy and fetid
A crime of great passion has just been committed
In this carnal emporium of the base and the lusty
Two builders are framed for a Murder Most Nasty - Theatre Beating's
Happy Hour for Miserable Children
The Edge: Herald Theatre
19- 30 September
Tues-Sun 8pm - Sat 2pm
In a run down old go-go bar, glitzy and fetid
A crime of great passion has just been committed
In this carnal emporium of the base and the lusty
Two builders are framed for a Murder Most Nasty -From the award-winning creators of hit festival show 'The Magic Chicken', comes an award-winning macabre comedy of anarchic proportions - 'Happy Hour for Miserable Children'
'A screamingly funny and highly innovative production that has its genesis in the 1920s silent movies of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton - the group has developed an original piece of energetic physical theatre that almost defies description' Ewan Coleman, Dominion Post
'Uncomfortably dark and disturbing - Truly and wonderfully weird'
Lyn Freeman, Capital Times
When two bungling builders - under the gaze of a sinister madame - set about renovating a grungy strip joint into a church, little do they know the dark and gory secrets hidden behind every greasy pole.
After winning critical acclaim and the 'Best Comedy' award at the 2004 New Zealand Fringe Festival, Auckland underground company Theatre Beating is back to fracture funny bones and split ribs with a slapstick thumping of power tools, plank spankings and a chaotic ignorance of OSH regulations.
Happy Hour for Miserable Children is coming soon to the Herald Theatre as a part of the STAMP programme:
8pm, 19th to 30th September.
Extra 2pm shows 23rd and 30th September
Super Special Midnight show 22nd September
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