NOTHING IS NORMAL, NOTHING IS STRANGE, NOTHING IS OFF-LIMITS  

Alice wasn’t there the day the teacher sat everyone down and told them what was normal and what wasn’t. She missed that lesson. She wasn’t there the day the teacher told everyone it was rude to interrupt people with random ideas and thoughts. Alice missed a lot of lessons it seems. And because of this, she can’t walk past anything (not even shampoo) without questioning it (or how it came to be named). Brine thought that one-day, she’d wake up and be normal. Her brain would work like everyone else’s. Luckily for us, that never happened.

Brine is a frenetic, exciting, savvy performer utterly switched on to what’s going on in the world at every damn moment. Time spent with Alice is a spectacular whirlwind inside her “full-blown hundy” ADHD, yet somehow she puts an audience totally at ease while she takes them on a rollercoaster ride of laughs.

Touted as one of the rising stars from last year’s Comedy Festival, Alice has kept herself busy ever since. She’s been quoted on multiple media outlets across NZ and around the world, due to her ability to surmise and rephrase current affairs in a way everyone can relate to. Correcting Tony Veitch’s apology Facebook post was one level of re-tweet, but her statement about rape victim-blaming went viral, being shared 2 million times globally and shared by Upworthy, Buzzfeed and The Huffington Post to name a few. Alice has continued to grow her audience as a live performer too. She opened for Alan Carr’s NZ shows in Christchurch and ‘Wellington, appeared on 7 Days, Family Feud and AoteroHA: Next Big Things all while continuing to develop her comedy skills up and down the country.

No -one puts Briney in the Corner is Alice’s second solo show, after her 2016 Billy T Award nominated show Brinestorm.

This time around, she has called in some help in the form of producer, Maria Deere and director, Helena Brooks, who has a Palme d’Or nomination for her comedic short film and currently directs television. As Helena says; I’m pumped to be working with Alice. She’s flat-out hilarious, with a unique take on the world, and also very smart. There are layers to her observations on life, so as well as leaving her show with a grin on your face, you’ve actually expanded your brain at the same time.

This year’s show will look at how Alice has come to terms with the fact that even if she walked herself to the darkest of corners, at the most far away corner of the earth, took a huge chain, a lock and tied herself down in that corner and just sat there… somehow… someway… she would not last in that corner. Or people would catch news that this crazy bitch had wandered into the woods and tied herself into a corner and then all of a sudden there would be helicopters and news world-wide and social media events all about the fact that Alice just wants to be in a corner. Let’s not get distracted on why there is a corner in the woods. Keep up.

“One of the biggest and most eye-opening mic drops there ever was” – Bustle.com, USA

“Brine takes us on a whirlwind journey … with the kind of frenzy that obliterates the line between madness and genius.” Theatre Scenes, NZ

“Alice Brine is clearly a star in the making.” Metro, NZ

Wellington Dates:
Tue 2 – Sat 6 May, 8pm
Venue: BATS Theatre, 1 Kent Tce
Tickets: $14 – $20
Bookings: bats.co.nz // 04 802 4175

Auckland Dates:
Tue 16 – Sat 20 May, 7pm
Venue: Basement Theatre, Lower Greys Ave
Tickets: $16 – $22
Bookings: basementtheatre.co.nz // 0508 ITICKET (484 253)

Theatre , Stand-up comedy ,

1 hr