Bats Theatre
Propping the theatre door open
In the digital age and the Covid era, how do you get people out to a play? Audio
Propping the theatre door open
In the digital age and the Covid era, how do you get people out to a play?
AudioBarnie Duncan - Tap Head
Have you ever looked at a lone, cold tap in a public toilet and wondered what it would say if it could talk? Nor have we, but that's the basis of comedian Barnie Duncan's show Tap Head, complete with… Video, Audio, Gallery
BANG! Live in Wellington
Recorded at Bats Theatre in Wellington as part of the NZ Fringe Festival, this is BANG! Live. Featuring Tawa mum and sex toy expert Abby Lund, Morgana Watson on menstruation in Te Ao Maori prior to… Audio
My mother the war hero - a daughter's tribute.
Only two New Zealand women have been awarded France's highest honour and one of them was Irish immigrant Phyllis JasonSmith. She was in her 80s when she received the Legion d'Honneur for extreme… Audio
Would you be prepared to be replaced by your clone?
If you had terminal cancer how would you feel about being replaced by your clone? A new play by Christchurch writer James Van Dyk poses this and a whole host of other difficult questions. In The… Audio
Playwright International Exchange
Morna Young is a playwright, actress and musician from a wee fishing village in the North East of Scotland. She's currently in New Zealand being hosted by BATS Theatre and Toi Põneke as part of the… Audio
Taking The High Ground
Taking the High Ground tells the stories of the first woman to scale Aoraki/Mount Cook in 1910 - Australian Freda du Faur, and of Kiwi Lydia Bradey who was the first woman to scale Mount Everest solo… Audio, Gallery
Accidental Ushering - The Tale of Curtains of a Candle
An unusual tale of accidental ushering. Shaun D Wilson berates his flatmate, NZ Fashion Week Miromoda Emerging Designer winner Jacob Coutie, after Jacob’s stunningly poor texting leads to Shaun… Audio, Gallery
Body Double: Julia Croft and Karin McCracken
Long before the hashtag #MeToo began and the dark underbelly of abuse of women in Hollywood came to light, two New Zealand women were exploring, for a theatre piece, women's sexuality in both negative… Video, Audio
Paying For It: stories from the sex industry
Blair* and Satine* gathered stories from fellow sex workers for the documentary theatre piece Paying For It. The pair hope that the show will help humanise people who work in their industry. Audio
Finn Teppett: obsessions, identity and boy bands
Wellington playwright Finn Teppett has won a stack of awards here and overseas, co-created the popular satire White Man Behind A Desk Live! show, and has a couple of films on the go. This week his… Audio
When dating gets theatrical
There's speed dating, online dating, and now Onstage Dating.
Award-winning Australian performer Bron Batten is a Tinderella, a serial dater... and she does it all in front of an audience.
Bron's… Audio
Vanilla Miraka by Hayley Sproull
A mix of standup comedy, song and monologue. Hayley Sproull delivers a self-deprecating view of her struggles to address her part-Maori heritage from a foundation of cultural clue-lessness. Audio
Man Parts by Carrie Green
Hilarious solo musical about a small-town girl with dreams of becoming a musical theatre star on the big-town stage. Audio
A Trial
Director and producer Joel Baxendale and Karin McCracken have devised a semi-improvised court room drama to be staged at Wellington's Bats Theatre next week investigating the debate over TVNZ's… Audio, Gallery
Kate McIntosh: All Ears
Kate McIntosh brings her unique brand of theatre back to Wellington this week, after living in Belgium for 15 years. She tells Eva about her work 'All Ears'. Audio
Freya Desmarais: NZ Comedian
NZ playwright and actor presenting two works at Bats Theatre this month; Home and Live Orgy. Audio
Playing Favourites with Victoria Spackman
Chief executive and part owner of the screen production company Gibson Group, director of Screenrights in Australia, and chair for twelve years of BATS Theatre Limited. Audio
Theatrical institution Bats to be reborn in Wellington
It is a Wellington theatrical institution, carving out the early careers of many successful New Zealand actors, including Cliff Curtis and Kerry Fox. Audio
