Alternative Art

Above:: ...Him - The Audio Foundation
If you missed the offbeat art in Myers Park on Saturday – an introduction to the extensive programme of events Fringe Auckland have planned for their 2013 festival – don’t despair.  The programme has just begun!

Here on K Road we’ll be watching out for local offerings such as Darling Today We’re Going to Die presented by newly formed theatre company Three Queens.at Alleluya Café (koha entry), Dog Star a dark world tale starring well known actor Jeremy Randerson showing at Whammy Bar in St Kevin’s Arcade basement and Oh! Is forOpera, an adults only opera performance delivered by Opera Risque at Galatos Live.  For more detail about what's on offer during this month-long artfest, check out  www.aucklandfringe.co.nz ..

K' Road Fringe

Auckland Fringe 2013 is in full swing currently and if you haven’t made it along yet, there’s still plenty of time to catch up with some of New Zealand’s edgiest art performances.  Risque opera at Galatos, interactive video game projections and spoken word performances are amongst an extensive programme of events running until 10 March.

Meet ‘Him’, at The Audio Foundation, a recluse, whose only connection with the outside world is a regular newspaper which arrives through a postal flap in his front door.  Salivate alongside actors Virginia Frankovich and Phoebe Mason in Gorge at the Old Folks Association as they draw you into a fantasy world inhabited by rivers of chocolate cake mixture and marshmallow fondue towers.  Or mosey along to Myers Park and St Kevin’s Arcade to hear poets, writers and rap artists in Spit it Out read excerpts from their own work.

Alternatively call into The Whammy Bar in St Kevin’s Arcade basement where theatre productions Dog Star -  a dark-world tale involving a mask, alien knowledge and a curse and Ticking Time Bomb – a two women comedy set in fictional small town New Zealand, are featuring.

Fringe in the Park: 15 Feb – 10 Mar

The leafy environs of inner city oasis, Myers Park, will again play host to Auckland Fringe Festival.  In fact, the park is the venue of choice for a preview of the myriad of performances, installations, screenings and workshops scheduled for the 2013 event which kicks off on 16 February.  With the festival providing a platform for artists with a bent toward innovation and freedom of expression, audiences can expect to be simultaneously stimulated, challenged and awed by an eclectic agenda of events.

Watch out for newcomers Three Queen’s later in the programme with their production of ‘Darling Today We’re Going to Die’. A bold mix of theatre, dance and song, it explores the strains of personal relationships juxtaposed against the looming catastrophe of the end of the world. The work is a combined effort from trio Lewis Gregory, Lana Mackintosh and Lucia Farron-Diamantis (pictured below) who each bring to their newly-formed company interchangeable skills of acting, directing, playwriting and producing.

Other performances festival goers can look forward to range from cabaret to opera, and interactive exhibition to kinetic sculpture. www.aucklandfringe.org.nz