| Friday
31 July
 Lunchtime
Opera food for the soul
New Zealand/Aotearoa
A delectable selection of songs wrapped up in a lunchtime concert and performed
by this country’s newest and brightest singers from the NBR New Zealand
Opera.
Featured artists include Morag McDowell and three of the current crop of PwC
Dame Malvina Major Emerging Artists – Brigitte Heuser, Andrew Grenon and
Daniel O’Connor. These up-and-coming interns will add spice to your lunch
hour with some great opera favourites including, Mozart’s delicious trio
Soave sia il vento, and some lesser-known, but emotional works like Onegin’s
cold and calculating Kogda bi zhizn.
Produced by NBR New Zealand Opera.
Fri 31 July, 12.10pm, Theatre Royal, TSB Showplace
 Ship
Songs
New Zealand/Aotearoa
Written and Performed by Ian Hughes With Songs and Lyric by Don McGlashan
Directed by Anna Marbrook
If you’re lost, throw yourself at the mercy of the sea – it may
just bring you home.
Inspired by how his parents met, actor Ian Hughes weaves together three extraordinary
sea-going adventures that span five centuries and four continents, and traverses
the connection between the sea, love and everyone’s quest to reach the
shore.
Fri 31, 7.30pm, Sat 1 Aug 8pm Theatre Royal
Wed 29
July, 7.30pm, Cue Theatre, Inglewood
 Penny
Ashton
Hot Pink Bits
New Zealand/Aotearoa
Saucy songs and sexy secrets are revealed by New Zealand’s global comedienne
Penny Ashton in her internationally triumphant show Hot Pink Bits. Ashton wows
with witty, titillating facts and hour glass figures, resplendent in sumptuous
hot pink corset and fishnets, and all in the best possible taste.
R18:
Sun 26 July, 7.30pm, Oakura Public Hall
Tues 28 July, 7.30pm, Kakaramea Hall
Wed 29th July, 7.30pm, Tarata Hall
Thurs 30 July, 7.30pm, Urenui Community Centre
Fri 31 July, 7.30pm, Rawhitiroa Hall
Sat 1 Aug, 7.30pm, Makahu Hall
 Te
Radar
Eating the Dog
New Zealand/Aotearoa
Comedian, satirist and raconteur Te Radar discovers that for every success
there’s got to be a few failures! An irreverent and hilarious look at
the non-champions of New Zealand history, people who gave life a red hot go
and maybe lost a limb, or their life in the process.
Fri 31 July, Sat 1 Aug, 8.30pm, Spiegeltent
Salon Perdu
 Meow
Meow
Beyond Glamour: The Absinthe Tour No fixed
address
From Paris to Berlin, Vegas to Shanghai, international singing and exotic performance
artist, Meow Meow, mixes up an explosive cocktail of ‘kamikaze kabarett’.
Meow Meow, is a tour de force that turns cabaret inside out and performs in
the famously magnificent Spiegeltent, a European mirror tent that is the ultimate
cabaret and music salon.
Fri 31 July, Sat 1 Aug, 10pm, Spiegeltent Salon
Perdu
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