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Lavinia Draper, alcohol-soaked performer of a certain age, maintains her dream despite the struggle. The strife of aging artists, most particularly women, facing unrepentant discrimination and harassment, and the resultant dysphoria and substance use, is profound. But Lavinia is the rare hopeful dreamer who never gives up on herself and inspires the audience to do the same. A one-woman show performed by Susan Campanaro that shatters genre as deftly as the title character severs the comic/tragic line. Brimming with hysterical comedy, dark sensitivity and harsh reality, the play features a moving score by Lynn Portas.
'A tour de force' (The Village Sun, New York).`
'A masterpiece of
creativity and talent by the incredible Susan Campanaro. It is a
must-see!' (Audience Review).
'Susan is a gem whose Lavinia is
Broadway overdue! Lynn is a musical genius who creates the perfect
frosting of lyrics and sound to the delicious layer cake that is
Lavinia's story. Smart, funny, poignant, an evening well spent.
BRAVO!!!' (Audience Review).
Performed and Directed by | Susan Campanaro
Lyrics and Music Composed
by | Lynn Portas
Produced by | Jimmy Burke
Part of the C ARTS programme, a home for international independent arts, showcasing creativity, celebrating diversity, at C venues at the Edinburgh Fringe and on the C digital online platform year-round. Full programme at http://www.CtheArts.com
Online Event
Experience a bold theatrical adaptation of one of Japan's most powerful war novels: Ōoka Shōhei's classic Fires on the Plain reimagined for the stage. This solo performance brings to life the harrowing journey of a soldier lost in the chaos of World War II. Through multiple roles, one actor explores the depths of war, solitude, and human survival. Explores themes of faith, dignity and humanity through the loneliness, hunger and moral dilemma of the Philippine front. A visceral, intimate take on Ooka's classic, confronting the darkness of war with haunting clarity.
Original text by | Ōoka Shōhei
Adapted and directed by |
Horikawa Honoh
Performed by | Nagai Hideki
Photo | Igaki Photo
Studio (use courtesy of Toyooka Theatre Festival, Japan)
Part of the C ARTS programme, a home for international independent arts, showcasing creativity, celebrating diversity, at C venues at the Edinburgh Fringe and on the C digital online platform year-round. Full programme at http://www.CtheArts.com
Online Event
15 Episodes of beautifully produced, highly infectious audio
comedy, inchworming into a mind near you....
Giant space
worms are invading Earth, and their wormy hive-minds are driving people Normal!
To
save humanity from all that is conventional, amorously-awkward Gemma and
loveable loafer Fabblestitch must take the ultimate trip: a
kaleidoscopic adventure deep into the bowels of the Lost Worm Galaxy --
where the normal rules don't apply, but the Normal Worms do...
Gemma
vs The Normal Worms is about holding your own when you're
different, deviant, and diverging from the conventional, in a crazy
world where everyone must submit to The Normal Thing to Do.
Warning:
Contains 420% reeferences to sex, drugs, & psychedelic worms.
4
hours and 20 minutes of raunchy, whimsical fantasy, inspired by Monty
Python's Flying Circus, and the nostalgic, old-timey radio
storytelling of Spike Milligan's BadJelly The Witch.
Cosy
up with your fav snacks and your best bud(s) and get ready to laugh your
ass off! Hi-fi sound gear recommended.
Early Birds can catch our Worms at SPECIAL prices! Sign up to
our socials/website to learn more!
Or listen for FREE at our
charming Listening
Post installation at Hannah Playhouse!
Online Event
An intriguing, soul-searching masterclass into the personas of jesters, jokers, and clowns, through the lens of the theatrical mask. From Greek trickster gods to Japanese Noh Theatre, commedia dell'arte and opera to slapstick and cartoons, join Professor Rosemary George on a rollercoaster through the joys and sorrows, comedies and tragedies of life, which probes hidden identities in human behaviour.
'The professor's range and extent of research is clearly apparent'
(EdinburghGuide.com).
'This is a masterclass in how we become what we
are not, from the 'tears of a clown' to the masks of traditional
Japanese Noh. It considers the jester as the communicator of the soul’
(LouReviews.blog).
'Brilliantly and eloquently written...
Thoughtful... Extraordinarily well-researched' (Audience review).
'Quite
unique... Informative and fun' (Audience review). 'Truly thoughtful,
educational' (Audience review).
Created and Performed by | Rosemary George
Part of the C ARTS programme, a home for international independent arts, showcasing creativity, celebrating diversity, at C venues at the Edinburgh Fringe and on the C digital online platform year-round. Full programme at http://www.CtheArts.com
Online Event
In the industry, a stoner chef is just called a chef.
Join Katy Borrows in her kitchen as she interviews local comedians about their favourite stoner snacks and herbal history, all while cooking an elevated version of their go-to munchies.
Buy a ticket now, and you'll receive a link to the video when the Fringe Festival opens!
Grab a snack, pack a cone, and hit play.
Online Event
Local tour guides Marc & Marisha work for Time Tours, the best (?) time-travelling tour company in Wellington. The kicker? They don't just talk about the history, they take you to it.. Download these two self-guided audio tours, wander the streets of Wellington (or listen from home!), and learn about the places that made us and what we'll become. All of it's true. We promise.*
*We can't confirm or deny that. 'Cause some of it's not happened yet.
Marc & Marisha Time Travel Wellington! - Feuding divorcees Marc & Marisha are forced together for their final historical time travelling tour. Join them as they tell you about the history of Courtenay Place and definitely don't rekindle their love...
Listen at home or walk along with us. Start this tour outside Coene's on Wellington's Waterfront.
Marc & Marisha Time Travel The Theatre! - Marc & Marisha find themselves in a moralistic crossroads with the advent of AI. And they also tell you about some of the history of Wellington's best theatres.
Listen at home or walk along with us. Start this tour outside the Welsh Dragon (eastern side), opposite BATS Theatre.
Featuring:
Hamish Boyle as Marc
Emma Maguire as Marisha
and an ensemble cast of: Bethany Miller, Jim Fishwick, Bea Lee Smith, Felicity Cozens, Ewan Coleman, Shaun Swain, Dylan Hutton, Sam Irwin, Annica Lewis, Ruby Kemp, Hayden Frost, Isaac Hooper and Booth.
Directed by Anastasia Matteini-Roberts and Emma Maguire
For more from us, check out Tempest Theatre Co on Facebook or Instagram.
Online Event
This solo multimedia performance celebrates the raw power of creation and destruction embodied by a volcano, as it explores parallels between the cyclical movements of the earth and the emotional landscape of humanity. Through a series of vignettes, a combination of expressive dance, recorded narration, video, and music, immerses the audience in the essence of an evolving mountain. Performed on a set crafted from recycled and natural materials, Mountain Woman showcases the sacred feminine spirit, embodying growth, self-destruction, and balance as a call to reconnect with the cycles of the earth.
Created, Composed, Choreographed, Produced and Performed by | Ariel
Bittner
Engineering Assistance by | Derek Mouton (Tim Curry Designs)
Costume
Fabric Donation and Brainstorming by | Olea Stevens
Part of the C ARTS programme, a home for international independent arts, showcasing creativity, celebrating diversity, at C venues at the Edinburgh Fringe and on the C digital online platform year-round. Full programme at http://www.CtheArts.com
Online Event
Tales From Discøvia follows one PhD student's journey to uncover the
history, folklore and culture of the world's most forgotten nation.
Discøvia!
In each episode, Emily will interview experts, examine
stories from the region, and discover her cultural ties to the country.
Join
us on this exciting journey through Eastern Europe's "Border Nation".
Episodes
will be available for free at https://tales-from-discovia.captivate.fm
Instagram:
@tales_from_discovia
Online Event
A wildly quirky piece of physical theatre from Japan. Watching PeoplePeople is like peering into the minds of its five characters: a professor, a punk, a pierrot, a patient and a pupil. The experience is strangely humanising and somewhat mad. The movements are carefully crafted and highly stylised through the unique theatrical language of Corporeal Mime. The characters speak in their native tongue (Japanese, Chinese, English). There is no story. There is no set. Just five people, being people, in their own surreal way.
Created and performed by | Tomoki Nonaka, Ruxun Dai, Teruya Sugimoto,
Masaya Tsujimoto, Harry Dean
Directed by | Kentaro Suyama, Tania Coke
Assistant
direction | Yukiko Masui
Music by | Tania Coke, Henry Morse,
Dreamylapse
Projected images by | Kentaro Suyama
Lights by |
Kentaro Suyama
Produced by | tarinainanika
Part of the C ARTS programme, a home for international independent arts, showcasing creativity, celebrating diversity, at C venues at the Edinburgh Fringe and on the C digital online platform year-round. Full programme at http://www.CtheArts.com
Online Event
For the 13th year running, it’s our avant garde offering to celebrate New Zealand’s fantastic Fringe Festival. Ramen Lager, rice lager brewed with ramen noodles, shiromiso, kombu seaweed and just a little sprinkle of MSG. Crisp, clean lager with a subtle umami sweet body, balanced with delicate hop bitterness. Just like the Fringe, it’s weird but it’s wonderful.
Available from all good venues throughout the 2026 festival.
Garage Project Wild Workshop
The Rebel Alliance have adapted the stage production of their award-winning space adventure, The Valentina, into a radio play with pictures!
Join 8-year-old Ellen and her trusted crewmembers Neil Armstrong, Yuri Gagarin, Valentina Tereshkova and Laika the space dog on an extraordinary journey, past the edge of the unknown, and onto the surface of the mysterious and dangerous planet, Vitanonan X.
A family friendly adventure for anyone who's looked to the stars and imagined the cosmos.
About The Rebel Alliance
The Rebel Alliance is an independent Auckland based theatre company. Founded in 2006 they have,to date, presented 11 works, 7 of which have been premieres of new New Zealand plays. They also started off the development of Centrepoint which co-won the Adam Award for best new New Zealand play in 2015.
Often solidly planted in real life the works they present prove that truth often surpasses fiction. Extraordinary life stories move, provoke, inspire and put our own lives into perspective. They can anchor us in turbulent times.
In 2024 they premiered their 11th play, The Valentina, as part of the Auckland Arts Festival.
TheRebelAlliance.co.nz
A family friendly adventure for anyone who’s looked to the stars and imagined the cosmos.
Watch the trailer here.
Watch the first chapter here.
Online Event
Lavinia Draper, alcohol-soaked performer of a certain age, maintains her dream despite the struggle. The strife of aging artists, most particularly women, facing unrepentant discrimination and harassment, and the resultant dysphoria and substance use, is profound. But Lavinia is the rare hopeful dreamer who never gives up on herself and inspires the audience to do the same. A one-woman show performed by Susan Campanaro that shatters genre as deftly as the title character severs the comic/tragic line. Brimming with hysterical comedy, dark sensitivity and harsh reality, the play features a moving score by Lynn Portas.
'A tour de force' (The Village Sun, New York).`
'A masterpiece of
creativity and talent by the incredible Susan Campanaro. It is a
must-see!' (Audience Review).
'Susan is a gem whose Lavinia is
Broadway overdue! Lynn is a musical genius who creates the perfect
frosting of lyrics and sound to the delicious layer cake that is
Lavinia's story. Smart, funny, poignant, an evening well spent.
BRAVO!!!' (Audience Review).
Performed and Directed by | Susan Campanaro
Lyrics and Music Composed
by | Lynn Portas
Produced by | Jimmy Burke
Part of the C ARTS programme, a home for international independent arts, showcasing creativity, celebrating diversity, at C venues at the Edinburgh Fringe and on the C digital online platform year-round. Full programme at http://www.CtheArts.com
Online Event
Experience a bold theatrical adaptation of one of Japan's most powerful war novels: Ōoka Shōhei's classic Fires on the Plain reimagined for the stage. This solo performance brings to life the harrowing journey of a soldier lost in the chaos of World War II. Through multiple roles, one actor explores the depths of war, solitude, and human survival. Explores themes of faith, dignity and humanity through the loneliness, hunger and moral dilemma of the Philippine front. A visceral, intimate take on Ooka's classic, confronting the darkness of war with haunting clarity.
Original text by | Ōoka Shōhei
Adapted and directed by |
Horikawa Honoh
Performed by | Nagai Hideki
Photo | Igaki Photo
Studio (use courtesy of Toyooka Theatre Festival, Japan)
Part of the C ARTS programme, a home for international independent arts, showcasing creativity, celebrating diversity, at C venues at the Edinburgh Fringe and on the C digital online platform year-round. Full programme at http://www.CtheArts.com
Online Event
15 Episodes of beautifully produced, highly infectious audio
comedy, inchworming into a mind near you....
Giant space
worms are invading Earth, and their wormy hive-minds are driving people Normal!
To
save humanity from all that is conventional, amorously-awkward Gemma and
loveable loafer Fabblestitch must take the ultimate trip: a
kaleidoscopic adventure deep into the bowels of the Lost Worm Galaxy --
where the normal rules don't apply, but the Normal Worms do...
Gemma
vs The Normal Worms is about holding your own when you're
different, deviant, and diverging from the conventional, in a crazy
world where everyone must submit to The Normal Thing to Do.
Warning:
Contains 420% reeferences to sex, drugs, & psychedelic worms.
4
hours and 20 minutes of raunchy, whimsical fantasy, inspired by Monty
Python's Flying Circus, and the nostalgic, old-timey radio
storytelling of Spike Milligan's BadJelly The Witch.
Cosy
up with your fav snacks and your best bud(s) and get ready to laugh your
ass off! Hi-fi sound gear recommended.
Early Birds can catch our Worms at SPECIAL prices! Sign up to
our socials/website to learn more!
Or listen for FREE at our
charming Listening
Post installation at Hannah Playhouse!
Online Event
An intriguing, soul-searching masterclass into the personas of jesters, jokers, and clowns, through the lens of the theatrical mask. From Greek trickster gods to Japanese Noh Theatre, commedia dell'arte and opera to slapstick and cartoons, join Professor Rosemary George on a rollercoaster through the joys and sorrows, comedies and tragedies of life, which probes hidden identities in human behaviour.
'The professor's range and extent of research is clearly apparent'
(EdinburghGuide.com).
'This is a masterclass in how we become what we
are not, from the 'tears of a clown' to the masks of traditional
Japanese Noh. It considers the jester as the communicator of the soul’
(LouReviews.blog).
'Brilliantly and eloquently written...
Thoughtful... Extraordinarily well-researched' (Audience review).
'Quite
unique... Informative and fun' (Audience review). 'Truly thoughtful,
educational' (Audience review).
Created and Performed by | Rosemary George
Part of the C ARTS programme, a home for international independent arts, showcasing creativity, celebrating diversity, at C venues at the Edinburgh Fringe and on the C digital online platform year-round. Full programme at http://www.CtheArts.com
Online Event
In the industry, a stoner chef is just called a chef.
Join Katy Borrows in her kitchen as she interviews local comedians about their favourite stoner snacks and herbal history, all while cooking an elevated version of their go-to munchies.
Buy a ticket now, and you'll receive a link to the video when the Fringe Festival opens!
Grab a snack, pack a cone, and hit play.
Online Event
Local tour guides Marc & Marisha work for Time Tours, the best (?) time-travelling tour company in Wellington. The kicker? They don't just talk about the history, they take you to it.. Download these two self-guided audio tours, wander the streets of Wellington (or listen from home!), and learn about the places that made us and what we'll become. All of it's true. We promise.*
*We can't confirm or deny that. 'Cause some of it's not happened yet.
Marc & Marisha Time Travel Wellington! - Feuding divorcees Marc & Marisha are forced together for their final historical time travelling tour. Join them as they tell you about the history of Courtenay Place and definitely don't rekindle their love...
Listen at home or walk along with us. Start this tour outside Coene's on Wellington's Waterfront.
Marc & Marisha Time Travel The Theatre! - Marc & Marisha find themselves in a moralistic crossroads with the advent of AI. And they also tell you about some of the history of Wellington's best theatres.
Listen at home or walk along with us. Start this tour outside the Welsh Dragon (eastern side), opposite BATS Theatre.
Featuring:
Hamish Boyle as Marc
Emma Maguire as Marisha
and an ensemble cast of: Bethany Miller, Jim Fishwick, Bea Lee Smith, Felicity Cozens, Ewan Coleman, Shaun Swain, Dylan Hutton, Sam Irwin, Annica Lewis, Ruby Kemp, Hayden Frost, Isaac Hooper and Booth.
Directed by Anastasia Matteini-Roberts and Emma Maguire
For more from us, check out Tempest Theatre Co on Facebook or Instagram.
Online Event
This solo multimedia performance celebrates the raw power of creation and destruction embodied by a volcano, as it explores parallels between the cyclical movements of the earth and the emotional landscape of humanity. Through a series of vignettes, a combination of expressive dance, recorded narration, video, and music, immerses the audience in the essence of an evolving mountain. Performed on a set crafted from recycled and natural materials, Mountain Woman showcases the sacred feminine spirit, embodying growth, self-destruction, and balance as a call to reconnect with the cycles of the earth.
Created, Composed, Choreographed, Produced and Performed by | Ariel
Bittner
Engineering Assistance by | Derek Mouton (Tim Curry Designs)
Costume
Fabric Donation and Brainstorming by | Olea Stevens
Part of the C ARTS programme, a home for international independent arts, showcasing creativity, celebrating diversity, at C venues at the Edinburgh Fringe and on the C digital online platform year-round. Full programme at http://www.CtheArts.com
Online Event
Tales From Discøvia follows one PhD student's journey to uncover the
history, folklore and culture of the world's most forgotten nation.
Discøvia!
In each episode, Emily will interview experts, examine
stories from the region, and discover her cultural ties to the country.
Join
us on this exciting journey through Eastern Europe's "Border Nation".
Episodes
will be available for free at https://tales-from-discovia.captivate.fm
Instagram:
@tales_from_discovia
Online Event
A wildly quirky piece of physical theatre from Japan. Watching PeoplePeople is like peering into the minds of its five characters: a professor, a punk, a pierrot, a patient and a pupil. The experience is strangely humanising and somewhat mad. The movements are carefully crafted and highly stylised through the unique theatrical language of Corporeal Mime. The characters speak in their native tongue (Japanese, Chinese, English). There is no story. There is no set. Just five people, being people, in their own surreal way.
Created and performed by | Tomoki Nonaka, Ruxun Dai, Teruya Sugimoto,
Masaya Tsujimoto, Harry Dean
Directed by | Kentaro Suyama, Tania Coke
Assistant
direction | Yukiko Masui
Music by | Tania Coke, Henry Morse,
Dreamylapse
Projected images by | Kentaro Suyama
Lights by |
Kentaro Suyama
Produced by | tarinainanika
Part of the C ARTS programme, a home for international independent arts, showcasing creativity, celebrating diversity, at C venues at the Edinburgh Fringe and on the C digital online platform year-round. Full programme at http://www.CtheArts.com
Online Event
For the 13th year running, it’s our avant garde offering to celebrate New Zealand’s fantastic Fringe Festival. Ramen Lager, rice lager brewed with ramen noodles, shiromiso, kombu seaweed and just a little sprinkle of MSG. Crisp, clean lager with a subtle umami sweet body, balanced with delicate hop bitterness. Just like the Fringe, it’s weird but it’s wonderful.
Available from all good venues throughout the 2026 festival.
Garage Project Wild Workshop
The Rebel Alliance have adapted the stage production of their award-winning space adventure, The Valentina, into a radio play with pictures!
Join 8-year-old Ellen and her trusted crewmembers Neil Armstrong, Yuri Gagarin, Valentina Tereshkova and Laika the space dog on an extraordinary journey, past the edge of the unknown, and onto the surface of the mysterious and dangerous planet, Vitanonan X.
A family friendly adventure for anyone who's looked to the stars and imagined the cosmos.
About The Rebel Alliance
The Rebel Alliance is an independent Auckland based theatre company. Founded in 2006 they have,to date, presented 11 works, 7 of which have been premieres of new New Zealand plays. They also started off the development of Centrepoint which co-won the Adam Award for best new New Zealand play in 2015.
Often solidly planted in real life the works they present prove that truth often surpasses fiction. Extraordinary life stories move, provoke, inspire and put our own lives into perspective. They can anchor us in turbulent times.
In 2024 they premiered their 11th play, The Valentina, as part of the Auckland Arts Festival.
TheRebelAlliance.co.nz
A family friendly adventure for anyone who’s looked to the stars and imagined the cosmos.
Watch the trailer here.
Watch the first chapter here.
Online Event