Why would you name your kid Apple? Why aren't porn stars promoting fitness equipment? Can you spontaneously combust from a spicy lunch? When is love just another four-lettered word?Why would you name your kid Apple? Why aren't porn stars promoting fitness equipment? Can you spontaneously combust from a spicy lunch? When is love just another four-lettered word?All these questions and more are answered as the relationship between a stand-up comedian and his infomercial loving girlfriend gets put under the spotlight.

Starring Chapman Tripp winner Erin Banks (I.D., Hamlet) and nominee Robert Lloyd (Fool for Love), Stand Up Love charts the rocky course of love, laughter and loss between a couple faced with becoming responsible adults and living with each other's faults.

"I've got a friend who's in a relationship, got that 'life's great', demented skip to his walk. The whole, the hills are alive with the sound of termites eating baby trees or something. I just feel like shoving him down some stairs."

"When I was writing Stand Up Love, Rob's voice seemed to crawl into my head," says writer Gavin McGibbon. "Rob's all too happy to be an out-and-out bastard but Rob being Rob he can't help but bring this gentleness to the stage as well, while Erin brings this sparkle to everything she does even in the darkest of plays."

McGibbon graduated from Waikato University with a double BA in Film and Media Studies/History and completed a MA in Scriptwriting at Victoria University under Ken Duncum.

McGibbon's first play, After Service, was a huge success during Fringe 2006 at BATS Theatre, went on to Massey's Pick of the Fringe and was the first play to be performed in Centrepoint's new Dark Room Theatre.

Don't miss this humorous Kiwi play about relationships: the good, the bad and the hilarious.

When: Fri 27 April - Sat 5 May 2007, 6.30pm
Where: BATS Theatre
Bookings: 04 802 4175 or book@bats.co.nz