Please adjust your G-string
"Please adjust your G-string" is a theatrical memoir at its zaniest! Writer and performer Margaret Austin, in partnership with director and dramaturg Ralph McAllister, gives us an intriguing and wryly funny take on the experiences of the innocent New Zealander abroad.
There was nothing about Austin's conservative upbringing in 1950s Palmerston North, complete with a stint as Sunday school teacher, that gave any hint of the life of adventure that was to follow.
If there's one thing that bugs her about being a woman, it's the attention that big tits get! "I was teased by my school mates in the swimming pool dressing room for not needing a bra," she says. But twenty years later, during her OE in Paris, her very small breasts proved to be a godsend and the reason why she got a job in the most famous music hall in the world. Legs mattered! That meant a year in the chorus line appearing topless before an audience 1,600 onlookers six nights of the week, 52 weeks of the year.
Armed with the lessons of the dressing room - how to apply full body make up, get false eyelashes into place, and of course master the art of wearing a G-string - further adventures took her to the Cannes Film Festival as a rookie reporter. Brushing shoulders with fame at interviews and celebrity parties meant contacts with the likes of Anthony Hopkins, Catherine de Neuve and Christopher Reeves.
Once back in New Zealand in the late eighties, adventuring took a very different form. Or maybe not. Find out!
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Theatre
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$20.00 -
3-5 March 2026 -
60 minutes -
The Fringe Bar -
The Fringe Bar -
18+ -
Adult Themes
