Brendon Green OF CONSEQUENCE
BATS Theatre, The Heyday Dome, 1 Kent Tce, Wellington
21/05/2019 - 25/05/2019
NZ International Comedy Festival 2019
Production Details
How did we get to where we’re pretty sure we definitely are?
“The perfect blend of comedy, charm, and candor.” – Appetite for the Arts
What are the moments that define a life? How will you be remembered in the future? What really happened in that Thai cave?
Acclaimed comedian and storyteller Brendon Green is tackling the big questions of morality, memory, and what moments matter – with hilarious results.
If you’ve ever wondered about your place in the world, this is the show for you. If you never have… Congrats, that must be nice. Please still come for a laugh.
* WINNER Best Storytelling Show (Auckland Fringe, 2018)
* Billy T Award nominee (NZ International Comedy Festival, 2014)
“At times has you rolling on your seat laughing, and at others hits you with an intense case of the feels.” – The Speakeasy
“Green is a rare performer … I would find him funny in any circumstance.” – Art Murmurs
BATS Theatre The Heyday Dome
21 – 25 May 2019
7pm
Full Price $20
Cheap Wednesday $16
Concession Price $15
Group 6+ $14
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Accessibility
*Access to The Heyday Dome is via stairs, so please contact the BATS Box Office at least 24 hours in advance if you have accessibility requirements so that appropriate arrangements can be made. Read more about accessibility at BATS.
Theatre , Spoken word , Solo ,
1 hr
Preoccupied with possibilities, potentialities and what ifs
Review by Margaret Austin 22nd May 2019
Brendon Green, story teller, is strumming himself into an appropriate psychological space for the revelations he’s about to share in his performance Of Consequence, at the Heyday Dome stage at BATS.
What are the moments that define a life? – he wants to know. Well, we’re interested. I’m especially interested in his first anecdote, which describes his one and only Airbnb experience. His host reviewed him with a descriptor that Brendon felt was a put down. Now, I don’t often interject during a performance but I have a lot of experience of these things. “Brendon, it was a spelling mistake,” I protest.
But no: “An Airbnb is a hotel that snitches,” he declaims. So now he stays in snitch-free hotels.
Preoccupied as he is with possibilities, potentialities and what ifs, Brendon has lots of practical suggestions. Newly engaged, he sports a ring. We get to hear quite a lot about his fiancée.
We also hear about his stereotypical rural school, and subjection to a stereotypical teacher. His audience, however, may have related better to a little known anecdote about the Navy Seals who rescued the Thai Cave boys a year ago.
“I have to become the variation on the story of my life,” is the nearest our story teller gets to a philosophical observation.
As he leaves the stage, he quotes the summarising judgment of that Airbnb host – which is also a fair summation of the state he leaves us in.
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