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Bloody good time - 247 | Regional News

Bloody good time

Sink your fangs into a risqué, raunchy, and raucous cabaret comedy show. Dracula’s: Sanctuary guarantees a bloody good time from the 10th to the 12th of July at St James Theatre.  

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Disco will never die - 247 | Regional News

Disco will never die

Niece of the Bee Gees and vocalist Debora McLane is proud of her family’s legacy and excited to be travelling to Aotearoa for the very first time as a special guest performer in Best of the Bee Gees at The Opera House on the 16th of August.

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Go bananas - 247 | Regional News

Go bananas

The first banana appeared on Earth roughly 10,000 years ago, after which humanity began its long, downward spiral according to purple puppet Randy Feltface. Discover the comedian’s appeal at his new show FIRST BANANA at The Opera House on the 15th of July.

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Beauty and brutality - 247 | Regional News

Beauty and brutality

We interview standout New Zealand actor Dulcie Smart, back in the country after more than 30 years in Berlin, about The Sound Inside, a “mysterious, multi-faceted jewel of a play” running at Circa Theatre from the 5th of July to the 2nd of August.

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Re-assemblage and resistance - 247 | Regional News

Re-assemblage and resistance

In her latest photographic exhibition at Jhana Millers Gallery until the 5th of July, Ann Shelton explores suppressed plant-based knowledge systems to present a feminist reappraisal.

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Animal instincts - 247 | Regional News

Animal instincts

Wellington Repertory Theatre presents a fierce battle of wills – human and animal, body and spirit – in Keith Scott’s stage adaptation of D. H. Lawrence’s The Fox at Gryphon Theatre from the 9th to the 19th of July.

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