Plays sure to raise a laugh

Caitlin Rivers, left, and Jane Robertson preparing to appear in next week’s Pint-Sized Plays....
Caitlin Rivers, left, and Jane Robertson preparing to appear in next week’s Pint-Sized Plays. PHOTO: PHILIP CHANDLER
A short attention span is all you need for some of the best theatrical entertainment you’ll see.

Playwriting comp Pint-Sized Plays — plays lasting 10 to 15 minutes max — returns to Queenstown next week with shows on Thursday and Friday at Frankton’s The Matrix Lounge, from 7pm, followed by two shows in Bannockburn the following day.

Organised by Queenstown’s Remarkable Theatre, it attracts plays from around the world.

Each also has to have no more than three actors, and minimal props.

Local actors will perform five of the plays, with the other three featuring Cromwell talent.

Once again, comedy’s very prevalent — seven of the plays are comedies, with two of them dark comedies.

"Everyone likes a good laugh," production manager Sophie Kennedy says.

Two are intriguingly entitled 200 Below Zero and Happy Husband Hunting.

Each show’s winning play is decidedby audience vote with votesaggregated to find the overall winner.

Tickets $30 plus booking fees from Humanitix.

 

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