The Grin Reaper Double Bill!

The Grin Reaper 1: The Bunny's Tale

Why is DEATH finding Easter eggs at temporarily fatal traffic accidents? Why is there a global shortage of fairy dust? How is The Easter Bunny financing her ever growing need for eggs? Exactly why was DEATH thrown out of its band The Four Hoarsemen? Who is the sinister The Amputation Angel and what does she do with the severed limbs she buys? For that matter, what does The Tooth Fairy do with the teeth she buys?

Dark humour aplenty, mixed with lighter moments that almost immediately turn in unexpected directions as DEATH and friends tell an accessible and funny story that answers many of these questions in this romp as mythological creatures battle the conflict between their consciences and fulfilling their assigned roles but you’ll have to come to the show to discover what they are.

A modern fairy story that on the surface is about the struggle against exploitation of workers by business under neo-liberalism, at another level it's about ordinary mythological creatures supporting each other and if you look very hard at another level may be a metaphor for the transgender experience

Caution: Not suitable for children. Any health or lifestyle advice given is only unintentionally helpful.

The Grin Reaper 2: The War on (Father) Christmas

Part metaphor of the mistreatment of front-line staff by lower level management, part story of love among the ice flows, The War on (Father) Christmas is a development season of a comedy with some elements of farce that is set 23 days after The Bunny’s Tale, the principle characters from the earlier play are ambushed by the evil Autocorrect and summoned to Father Christmas’s North Pole conference centre for a team building exercise, but Buns & Toothy quickly go AWOL and then HR is kidnapped by Father Christmas. DEATH, faced by the ultimate choice between two evils, realises that it has a meal break for the first time in millennia & sets off in search of the canteen only to encounter a member of the revolutionary ELF: Elf Liberation Force that seeks to free the elves enslaved in Santa’s factories. The elf recruits DEATH.

As they are former band mates but now enemies, DEATH rather improbably helps Father Christmas fix a rhyme that won’t work and equally improbably receives an invitation to Father Christmas’s fortress for a jam session thus fixing a plot problem. DEATH uses its pass card to admit the ELF who proceeds to help DEATH rescue HR before rabbiting on about something like “Kill the tyrant and free my people” but all is not as it seems. Somewhere in the ensuing chaos is a resolution or is there?

Come see our play and decide for yourself.

See more about the play and the creative team behind it over at their website!

When:

23rd - 25th February:

7pm - Part 1

8:30pm - Part 2

Where:

The Dogs Bollix

2 Newton Road, Auckland 1010

Duration:

55 mins per part w/ interval between

Tickets:

Koha

Accessibility:

This event is not accessible for Deaf or HoH audiences

This event is fully accessible for wheelchair users

Pick up available outside venue

No lockout

Content Warnings:

18+