BLAM!
NEANDER
(Denmark)
6 March - 10 March 2015
The Civic
Die Hard meets The Office in BLAM!, coming to Auckland Arts Festival 2015 from 6 - 10 March, at The Civic.
BLAM! is the wordless story of three under-paid, over-worked and over it office workers, wasting their lives away in the world's saddest workplace under the hawkeyed supervision of their border-sociopathic boss.
As a refuge from this humdrum hell, the workers let their vivid imaginations run wild. Whenever the boss looks the other way they BLAM! transforming their surroundings into a world populated by aliens, superheroes and classic blockbuster movie villains.
Suddenly, its an office gone mad, in a world taken over by ordinary guys performing extraordinary feats.
To the boom of AC/DC and Black Sabbath, the likes of Predator, Wolverine, the Incredible Hulk and Iron Man stalk the stage armed with office staplers, hole punches and post-it-notes.
Winner of the prestigious 2012 Danish Theatre Award Reumert, and the breakout hit of the 2013 Edinburgh Festival, BLAM! has stunned audiences worldwide with its mix of physical theatre, parkour, circus and deadpan humour that will have audiences doubled over in their seats.
The ideal entertainment for fathers and sons, good mates, and physical types who cant sit still, BLAM! is the brainchild of acclaimed Icelandic visual theatre artist Kristjan Ingimarsson, who founded physical theatre company Neander in Copenhagen in 1998. In a recent interview he revealed that The Office creator, Ricky Gervais, had seen BLAM! and asked if he could join the show.
"One of the wildest experiences, I have had in a long time. A party bomb of a show that slowly detonates into an orgy of insanity" - Politiken, Denmark
"Funny, wildly dangerous and irresistible" - Financial Times, UK
SEASON DETAILS
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Show |
BLAM! |
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Where |
The Civic |
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When |
Friday 6 March, 7.00pm; Saturday 7 March, 7.30pm; Sunday 8 March - Tuesday 10 March, 6.30 pm |
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Duration |
1hr 15 mins no interval |
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Price |
Premium$65.00 Premium Friend/Conc/Group$59.00 A Res $58.00 Friend/Conc/Group $53.00 A Res Child $40.00 B Res $48.00 B Res Friend/Conc/Group $43.00 B Res Child $25.00 C Res $35.00 C Res Child $15.00 |
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Bookings |
Book at Ticketmaster outlets: www.ticketmaster.co.nz/ P: 09 970 9700 or 0800 111 999 |
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Information |
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Social Media |
Facebook: facebook.com/Aklfestival Twitter: @Aklfestival |
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Media enquiries |
Meredith McGrath, Publicist P: +64 (0)9 3740317 M:+64 (0)27 4473247 E: Meredith.mcgrath@aaf.co.nz |
*Highly stylised slapstick violence, mild strobe lighting.
With support from AUCKLAND LIVE.