Basement and Q Theatres: Fringe Festival madness continues this weekend, seeing fans of independent theatre adopt the kind of four-shows-in-one-night attitude that hardened film festival goers embrace. We're especially excited about comedians and very-serious-musicians Laura Daniel and Joseph Moore's new karaoke show, HEARTcore Karaoke at the Basement on Saturday night while those of a more, um, anthropological bent might want to check out Go Home Curry Muncha where two angry women – Aiwa Pooamorn and Gemishka Chetty – smash coconuts and a few myths about authentic ethnic food. Sounds like things could get messy, so it's held in the Basement car park on Friday and Saturday nights.
Meanwhile, walk across that car park to Q Theatre and you'll find its Loft and Vault spaces thrumming with fringe. There's the New Zealand debut of UK physical theatre company Heady Conduct, who combine physical storytelling with live music; the return of local performer Victoria Abbott's one-woman show Run Rabbit and Only Bones, the award-winning micro-physical theatre piece which premiered in Lapland before "coming home" to NZ.
Auckland Fringe Arts Festival, various venues, until Sunday. See www.aucklandfringe.co.nz for all shows, dates and times
