Mating In Captivity Brand spanking new play needs your support

Writing is hard work. Like, really hard. Even writing this paragraph is tricky. Writers need all the support they can get - they get it from friends, family, loved ones.

With all this support, Oliver Page has been working for years on his debut play. And it's an incredible piece of work. It's called 'Mating in Captivity' and it is whip smart and funny as hell.

Writing is just the first part. Now the work needs to be seen. Between yourselves, Boosted, and Last Tapes we need to give the team some extra help  to do the play justice. The money we raise through Boosted will go towards paying the people who work so hard to put a play together - our director Renee Lyons, our cast Milo Cawthorne, Firth Horan, and Jack Buchanan, and our designers Poppy Serano and Rachel Marlow.

Thank you for your support. From the bottom of our hearts. From the cockles.

Last Tapes Theatre Company presents Mating in Captivity 

Balling. Boffing. Bushwhacking. Getting laid. Its all sex. And there's so much to say about sex. Last Tapes Theatre Company presents the debut season of Mating in Captivity by Oliver Page, as part of the 2016 First Steps season. It's whip smart, it's funny, it's about sexual subtext and you can't spell subtext without butt-sex. 

Annie and Rob are getting engaged. Or got engaged and their engagement party is tonight. But on their way out the door they get a call. It's Jacob, Rob's old school friend. He needs a place to stay. In spite of his future wife's plea for privacy, Rob invites Jacob to bunk down with them in their teeny tiny, rinky dink central Auckland apartment. What follows is a screwball comedy that brilliantly and viciously cuts to the quick of some pretty important questions about liberal ideals and middle-class morality.

In characteristic Last Tapes fashion Mating in Captivity brings together a team of some of the coolest, newest young creatives. This is Oliver Page's debut as a playwright, he's better known as a writer and director with Candlelit Pictures (We Talk About Loss, Runaways).

Mating in Captivity showcases the emerging directing talents of Ren�e Lyons, seen on TV in Filthy Rich, 800 Words and on stage in numerous plays and comedy shows, including her own show Tinderella in the NZ New Zealand Comedy Festival.

Starring Milo Cawthorne (Deathgasm, Once in Chanuk Bair, 360), Frith Horan (The Tempest, Benedict Cumberbatch Must Die) and Jack Buchanan (Jekyll and Hyde, Long Ago Long Ago, Servant of Two Masters).


   Mating in Captivity
   16-27 August, 8pm
   Basement Theatre
   Tickets $18-20
   http://www.basementtheatre.co.nz /whats-on/mating-in-captivity/

Writer: Oliver Page
Director: Ren�e Lyons
Designers: Poppy Serano and Rachel Marlow