FALLEN ANGELS
BATS Theatre, The Heyday Dome, 1 Kent Tce, Wellington
14/07/2017 - 29/07/2017
Young & Hungry Festival of New Theatre 2017
Production Details
Life gets raw and real when an NZ TV star is made to pay the price for his reality show.
Max Angelis has made his fame and fortune with his reality TV show Max’s Angels. However, beasts and demons are released in his celebrity perfect home when two fallen angels arrive to take revenge and reveal explosive truths about his family. It will be the most heated episode of Max’s show ever.
For 24 years Young & Hungry and BATS Theatre have been providing talented young people with a platform to perform, produce and create great theatre.
The Y&H Playwright Initiative producing three new kiwi plays a year and the annual Festival of New Works at BATS – Y&H feeds the theatrical hunger and quenches the creative thirst of younguns’ under 25.
Our 24th year will see a pop-tacular descent to hell, real reality TV, and an epic comedy about a Mongolian warlord flipping burgers!
BATS Theatre The Heyday Dome
14 – 29 July 2017
at 8pm
Full Price $20
Concession Price $15
Group 6+ $15
BOOK TICKETS
Season Pass
Why not save some pingers and fill your belly with a 2017 Young and Hungry Season Pass to see all three shows! See Attila The Hun, Fallen Angels and One Night Only for just $51 Full Price and $39 Concession.
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.
Cast
Max Angelis: David Conroy
Nicole: Becky Lane
Brandon: Thomas Hughes
Taylor: Zoe Christall
Levy: Hosea Tapuai
Jayden: Dylan Chetwin
Production
Assistant Director: Ashleigh Bywater-Schulze
Assistant Director: Tim Fraser
Stage Management: Angel Hutchinson
Set Design: Cameron Rossouw
Costume & Props Design: Christian Manalo
Lighting Design: Rohan Liley
Sound Design: Dominic Flanagan
Youth , Theatre ,
1 hr
A timely tale of ritual humiliation
Review by Margaret Austin 15th Jul 2017
Fallen Angels, which opened at the BATS Dome last night, is an astonishing work. Congratulations to writer Emily Duncan for creating a piece that manages to be entertaining as well as confronting.
“This work looks at how we connect with others and how we treat those who are vulnerable in our communities,” states the programme note.
You wouldn’t think you were in for a serious ride by the opening moments where a strip tease number turns the luscious female dancer into a much softer creature in a pale pink onesie. This transformation, however, aptly symbolises the play’s theme.
It’s a story of intimidation and violence – all the more pointed because it takes place in a private home and is rendered even more incongruous by a stage setting in neutral white and beige, designed by Cameron Rossouw.
“Anything’s full of disease if you don’t take care of it,” says one character. Is this a comment on race relations in this country? The way the story develops, you might think so.
The eponymous fallen angel of the title is a popular, white TV presenter, whose superficial world is typified by a pristine suit, an offhand manner and references to taglines, distribution and release forms. This world is juxtaposed against a culturally disadvantaged one, where “being an artist” is most likely to amount to being a tattooist or graffiti painter.
The story develops piecemeal, going back and forth in the characters’ histories. The writer has accomplished this with the minimum of confusion for the audience – aided by a number of fine performances and an enviable clarity of direction by Rose Kirkup.
It is a timely tale of ritual humiliation – climaxing in a shattering revelation.
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