Auckland Festival Showcases VENUS & ADONIS 3/18-3/22

Auckland Festival 09 'Venus & Adonis'
Theatre Wednesday, 18 March 2009 until Sunday, 22 March 2009
Venus & Adonis
Bell Shakespeare and Malthouse Melbourne (Australia)

Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis is a subversive re-working of Ovid's original love story: it is vulgar, funny, sexy and whole-hearted. This Venus and Adonis is an
equally subversive re-working of Shakespeare.

"A stunning theatrical adaptation...a profound enactment of the anguish and ecstasy of love..." The Australian

This production may use Shakespeare's words but it turns his poem into a performance piece that veers from drama to cabaret, farce to burlesque and sheer
effrontery to pathos. In doing so, it explores just how fine the calibration but how vast the spectrum is between lust and love, sexual stereotypes and mythical goddesses...

BY
William Shakespeare
DIRECTED BY
Marion Potts
STARRING
Melissa Madden Gray, Susan Prior
MUSIC PERFORMED LIVE BY
Felicity Clark, Michael Sheridan,
Bree van Reyk

Developed through Bell Shakespeare's Mind's Eye

When:
Wed 18 - Fri 20 March 7.30pm
Sat 21 March 1.30pm & 7.30pm
Sun 22 March 5pm

Where:
Bruce Mason Centre

Tickets:
Premium, $65
Premium Festival Friend, $55
A Res, $55
A Res Festival Friend, $50
A Res Concession, $50
A Res Group 6+, $50
B Res, $45
B Res Concession, $40
C Res, $35

Duration:
1 hr 10 mins (no interval)

Website: www.bellshakespeare.com.au

Tickets available from any Ticketmaster Outlet. In person from the BMC Box Office. By phone on (09) 970 97000. Online at www.ticketmaster.co.nz. Ticketing fees will apply

Tickets: Premium, $65, Premium Festival Friend, $55, A Res, $55, A Res Festival Friend, $50, A Res Concession, $50, A Res Group 6+, $50, B Res, $45, B Res Concession, $40,C Res, $35

Website: www.bellshakespeare.com.au