Young & Hungry

Auckland Theatre Company in association with the Young and Hungry Arts Trust presents

The YOUNG & HUNGRY FESTIVAL OF NEW THEATRE 2010

A tasty selection of fresh plays written especially for the text generation. Pick & mix your dates or upsize and see all three shows in one night!

6.30pm EXCHANGE written and directed by Lauren Jackson
Break out your lederhosen and moisten your strudel – the wall has come down and here comes the class of 1994. Five kiwi kids are about to experience the trip of a lifetime when they take on Germany. How will they cope with the language, the culture shock and the numerous stereotypes? Will they get lost in translation or discover there really is more

8pm THINNING by Eli Kent, directed by Laurel Devenie
Schools out forever! Yeah Right. In the limbo time between the end of high school and 'real life', a group of teenagers leave their city lives behind to go apple thinning. Join best mates Isaac, Adam, Troy, Lily, Fraggle and Billie as they break-up, hook-up, fall in love, get drunk, fall over and come out in one last explosive summer together before they might never see each other again.

Eli is the author of several award-winning plays including The Intricate Art of Actually Caring and Rubber Turkey.

9.30pm FITZ BUNNY LUST FOR GLORY by Grant Buist, directed by Simon Coleman
It’s a cartoon! It’s a musical-comedy! Its Rocky Horror meets Monty Python!
The inspirational true story of rock star Fitz Bunny as she battles to become the first rabbit Super-Mayor of Auckland is a tale of Bolshevik sheep, global thermonuclear war, and four-part harmony singing, based on the cult cartoon strip Brunswick by Grant Buist.