When Booty Calls
Presented by Comedy Gold
“A REVELATION OF GENRE, COMBINING META COMMENTARY, ACTION-COMEDY AND SOME GOOD OLD FASHIONED ROMANCE.”
“EVERY MOVE IS PLACED, EVERY WORD LANDS – THE SKILL UNDERLYING THE FROTH IS AS PALPABLE AS RIPPLING MUSCLE UNDER SKIN.”
Comedy Gold is proud to offer a slick, complex and physically impressive live-action show.
Danger, Excitement, Love, Lust, Liz, Jen, Pirates, Again?!
After a sold-out and sadly cancelled Fringe Festival season, Comedy Gold is bringing When Booty Calls back in this action packed Rebooty!
When Booty Calls is a pirate-themed, slapstick, romantic-comedy. Praised as "A rude pantomime", the show’s use of physical comedy and thrilling fight choreography accompanied by its witty script has been crafted to make you laugh at every single line. After a successful season at BATS in 2021 and a sold-out season for Fringe Festival 2022, Comedy Gold are proud to have the highest number of laughs-per-minute of any queer, pirate, action-rom-com shown at BATS Theatre in April!
Legend performer, Sepelini Mua’au says he “Was blown away with so many aspects of the showing- the performances, writing, comedy, staging and to know it was devised from scratch made it even more impressive.”
Join Comedy Gold for an evening of swashbuckling joy, laughs and impressive stunt work.
When Booty Calls features performances from:
Nina Hogg, (Jez and Jace, Poprox Improv and Captain Caketin Sketch Comedy)
Phoebe Caldeiro (Co-composer and musical director for Music Sounds Better Out Here and assistant musical director and lead performer of This Is Fine: The Musical).
Introducing Ella Wells and Ashton Marla.
Directed by Troy Etherington (performer and deviser of Troy Eats a Can of Beans in Fifty Minutes)
Previously co-directed by Tom Aitchenson (Co-director of One Way Ticket to Mars).
Lighting and Set Design by Scott Maxim (Wendybird).
Fight Choreography by Nina Hogg, & coaching by Carrie Thiel.
Music composed by Phoebe Caldeiro.
Comedy Gold is a company focused on creating good old fashioned comedy without any of those pesky "Morals" or "Deeper meanings". We pride ourselves on the most laughs per-minute of any queer, pirate, action-rom-com debuted in Wellington, 2021.
