Get your giggle on, the NZ international Comedy Festival is taking over this May. With almost 20 shows Comedy Fest shows right here at BATS there's something to reach everyones funny bone.
Dare to enter the dark minds of New Zealand’s 666’s darkest goth band. Darkwave druid Richard Nothing (Jemaine Clement) and Coldwave bassist Clown Of Thornz (Jonny Brugh) conjoin by osmosis to bring you a funeral of songs to send you to a dark place.
Sam was just a child in 1998 when his family escaped a war-torn Ethiopia for a Sudanese refugee camp, before finding themselves all the way in New Zealand
Murder, mystery and hot improvisers in three piece suits, what more could you want?
Dan is recently single, and finally getting therapy. He's not there to find a solution - he just wants to tell a stranger that he doesn't plan on changing.
‘The Queen Years’ is a brand-new Femme Natale show with brand new sketches. This time, it’s about those extraordinary years in a parent’s life when we must re-emerge from the baby hole and find ourselves again as individuals. R18
A gut-wrenching Greek tragedy about family, morality, and the sacrifices demanded by love and war.
A workshop in operating lights, sound and tech for improv theatre shows.
Briar’s always been a sleepwalker, but it’s no longer just her REM cycle that's suffering. Based on the true story of a series of things that didn’t really happen, playwright Helen Vivienne Fletcher draws on her lifetime of sleep misadventures.
Two directors will need the audience to suggest games to put these (more or less) talented improvisors to the test. Will they break under pressure, or will they shine? We need people who are not afraid to judge.
Our cast helps two characters struggling to overcome their flaws, to win everything they desire. Will they?
Doom & Bloom likes to push the envelope, usually in unwise ways. Come watch us absurdly explore controversies that probably don’t deserve the attention.
The Hearts stand valiant in one corner. The Bones hunger for glory in the other. Two teams vie for your applause in this completely improvised competition!
Three improv teams face off in a battle for glory, honour, & the audience's favour. We'll bring the knives; you bring the judgement.
A Killer Improvised Show. Five improvisors plot to murder a fictional character of the audiences chosing and then try and put in action.
Gory, hori and glory stories for anyone over 30 who's opened a dating app at least once. Hilarious, brutally honest and knicker-wettingly filthy.
A group of friends venture into the bush and find themselves sharing a remote hut with a mysterious stranger. It’ll be a night none of them ever forgets.
Hector Berlioz, the 19th-century French composer, and Hector Wong, Chinese Wellingtonian, inexplicably find themselves in a room together. What else are they to do but talk to each other?
This one's for the young hearts, the old hearts, and the broken hearts.
A workshop in operating lights, sound and tech for improv theatre shows.
Heartbreaker Productions are back with their fan-favourite show 'Midnight Confessions'.
Office Hours
Mon - Fri 9am - 4pm
Show Dates
4pm - Late
