Faust Chroma features a vast cast of performers and puppeteers from Christchurch company Free Theatre in a dark and compelling adaptation of the Faustian epic.
"We use masks and people playing puppets to explore Faust's wager with the devil", performer Coralie Winn said yesterday.
"There's lots of shadow play, conjuring and film effects as well as an old piano with exposed strings, which gets scraped and plucked through the performance to make a really crazy soundscape.''
Faust Chroma is on at 8pm in the Mary Hopewell Theatre.
"We sing, we dance. Sometimes both at the same time,'' says Greg Morrison, of Huntly family band The Morrisons.
You've gotta love someone who comes out with something like that.
"The story follows our seemingly endless world tour in an attempt to find our mother, who stormed off stage in a religious rage during our performance at the Huntly Power Station to celebrate the commissioning of the final 250MW unit,'' Morrison says.
The Morrisons' Huntly, High and Low is on at the Hutton Theatre at 10pm.
The Outwits blow the dust off old cinematic classics in Dub Dub Dub at 10pm in the Fringe Lounge.
The group dubs voices, music and special effects over old television programmes, movies and even film footage of the audience arriving for the show to create their own entertainment industry.
Irish comedian and fiddle player Aindrias de Staic makes his debut in the Hutton Theatre at 7pm with Around The World on 80 Quid; The journey of an Irish fiddle player.
The 2007 Edinburgh Fringe Festival "Sweet Award'' winner shares yarns and characters, both of which are often imaginary, from his travels set to a backdrop of beat poetry, improvised comedy and cabaret.
At 7.30pm, irrepressible Timaru bingo aficionado Keith Preene starts calling the numbers in Golden Goose - The Comedy Bingo Show at the Fringe Lounge. It's a fair bet it won't be any ordinary bingo show with burlesque contortionist Petunia Pink as his assistant.
Samoan comedian James Nokise takes the stage at 8.30pm in the Hutton Theatre in Beige Against the Machine, his story of one man against the system.
