TITTY BAR HA!HA!
Basement Theatre, Lower Greys Ave, Auckland
08/05/2013 - 18/05/2013
NZ International Comedy Festival 2007-09, 2013
Production Details
LATE NIGHT CABARET
“I wandered to the cellar, smelled vagina and vanilla… not a common scent I’ll grant you but it’s fact.”
1943 England. War, smut, sex, grime. As the bombs fall, join your hosts Hope and Gloria for a rollicking, raucous show of high-end filth. Strap in as they regale you with twisted tales of debauchery and depravity, naughty balloon modelling, buppetry*, and not least, original songs and sharp vocals.
Please take your seat, and Welcome to Club Titty Bar Ha!Ha! …….Offering a very unusual flavour at the 2013 NZ International Comedy Festival serving up a late night treat for just 8 shows only, Weds 8 to Sat 11 May and Weds 15 to Sat 18 May – at The Basement Theatre in Lower Greys Ave.
Titty Bar Ha Ha is a show for adults only bringing together two very English roses (thorns included) for an hour of dark humour.
With original music from Kirsty Newton (Comedy Store London/Rich Halls Hoe Down) and additional material/filth from Australian comedian Mickey D, no stranger to local audiences having been voted Best International Guest at our festival in 2008 and 2009.
This is a cabaret that is sexy, silly and slyly outrageous. Before performing to the sophisticated audience in Auckland, Hope and Gloria will take their cabaret to the Adelaide and Sydney Comedy Festivals, as well as touring to other parts of Australia.
Following their return to the UK in June, Titty Bar Ha Ha look to bunker down at the Dublin and Edinburgh Festivals….
*it’s a real word. Google it!
As part of the 2013 NZ International Comedy Festival
TITTY BAR HA!HA!
AUCKLAND
Date: Weds 8 to Sat 11, Weds 15 to Sat 18 May, 10pm
Venue: The Basement Theatre, Lower Greys Ave
Tickets: $22 – $25 (booking fees may apply)
Bookings: 0800 TICKETEK www.ticketek.co.nz
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Smutty fun with surreal puppetry of the breasts
Review by Kathryn van Beek 09th May 2013
Down on luck and low on morals, Hope and Gloria find themselves working in a strip club in wartime England. As planes fly overhead and police bang on the door the duo perform to their audience of desperados and bond over their shared love of gin, sexual innuendo and the dead guy Johnny under the floorboards.
The premise is sketchy and the setting rather amorphous (at times the action seems to be set in 1993 Australia rather than 1943 London) but that doesn’t stop our two firecracker heroines from having bags of fun and taking everyone along for the ride.
Both women look good in a bustier but their comic timing, filthy humour and fantastic singing voices are even more impressive. Highlights include a coke and asprin challenge, some surreal high-brow breast puppetry and a kazoo duel that has the audience in stitches.
Grab some friends and a bottle of plonk and head down to the Basement for 60 minutes of dirty, smutty fun. If you’re lucky you might even win a prize, or get a lap-dance with a twist.
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