Carol & Nev

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Mon 15 Jun ’09, 8:00pm	Saving
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Where: The Basement, Lower Greys Avenue, Auckland CBD Show map

Restrictions: All Ages

Ticket Information:

Adult: $25.00
Concession: $18.00
Booking fees may apply

Website:

www.flaxworks.com

Favourites:

Dominic Scheirlinck
Kalasia Senico

It’s the great Kiwi road trip. Straight down the Island, cross Cook Strait and on to the Bach. Five toilet stops, lunch on the road, sleep on the Ferry and straight on till morning.

Carol & Nev are on the road, taking the family campervan to their daughters wedding at the bay. Only catch is Carol died in 1984.

Nev has spent the last 25 years ‘getting on with the business of life’. Carol has returned from beyond the grave to haunt him for the journey. Or could Nev just be having a nervous breakdown on the eve of the wedding? Whatever it is, he now has 24 hours to get to his daughters wedding in the family campervan with the ghost of his wife trapped inside.

From the creators of Biscuit & Coffee and Murder by Chocolate comes the hilarious road trip of a lifetime. He must convince her she’s dead - she must convince him he’s alive.

It’s a unique perspective of recent New Zealand history, a tale about the damage time wreaks on youthful ideals and the difference between growing up and giving up.

‘Come back from the dead to haunt the Campermatic. This is typical of you!’

The creators of New Zealand’s Flaxworks theatre company and acclaimed director Anna Marbrook bring the premiere of their new comedy Carol & Nev to The Basement theatre in Auckland from Monday June 15 - 20, 2009. Formed in 2005, Flaxworks has since toured their two original productions Biscuit & Coffee and Murder by Chocolate through New Zealand and Australia to over 50 different venues with over 150 performances.

After spending much of 2007 and 2008 performing sell out shows of Murder by Chocolate around New Zealand and more recently garnering excellent reviews and delighting audiences at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2009, Flaxworks are excited to bring their new show to life.

‘Alex Ellis and Phil Ormsby have talent to burn’ - Lumiere

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Bob Carlton 3 years ago

The road-worthy winners for this one are Terry109 and rochie_c.
mtbm 3 years ago

A trip from Hawea to Cromwell, with a family who had had bad luck on their holiday - leaving the food behind at home in the garage because someone forgot to put it in the car, finding the bach was only one bedroom and not two (for seven people), finding mice had invaded the place, there was no fresh milk and we had to have powdered, an electrical storm cut the power, then on our trip, the windscreen got broken and there were none available until the next day, so had to stay the night in an overpriced hotel with just what we had - not much fun for my parents.
Melanie Whitburn 3 years ago

I love road trips, always fun with friends!! I've come back after a night out in Tauranga in my PJs, we had a crash on the way over to Gisbourne one time and a cop just happened to come around the corner! lucky it wasn't our fault! but he was a jerk...
rochie_c 3 years ago

One Easter during uni holidays I was in Christchurch and a couple of girlfriends and I decided to go to Hamner for a girly getaway to the hot springs & spa.
A text message from one of our guy friends and four hours later we had gone from being a group of 3 girls away for a pamper night to being a mixed team of 6 on a boozy weekend roadtrip round the West Coast of the south island with stuff-all money (being poor students) and no accomodation booked. We ended up sleeping in the attic of a backpackers in Hamner on the first night and a friend of a friend let us stay on the floor in the student hall of residence in Greymouth!
Even though by right I shouldn't remember anything considering the amount of cask wine we drank that weekend the memories of that awesome road trip will stay with me forever!
billnelson 3 years ago

Last year I was planning a trip to the dairy to get some Rashuns. I had it all worked out. Get up at 6am, pack my bag, leave several days food in the cat bowl, put the alarm and hit the road. Unfortunately when I got to the kerb outside my house I tripped and fell on to the road shattering my left knee. My road trip was over, the dairy within spitting distance, and I did. My wife was kind enough to bring me some Rashuns in hospital. How she got them I've no idea, but I'm sure it wasn't easy.
Collin Reremoana 3 years ago

driving thr from auckland and to welly in a 1978 cortina with five hefty people cram in,broke down in hammy,push started in taupo,glide into palmy and died,caught the bus down too welly,train back to auckland,the cortina went too garage heaven.
joybutton 3 years ago

I had only just arrived in New Zealand having moved from Canada. I was driving a beat up old station wagon I had bought off a random Austrian guy I had met at the hostel in Auckland and was on my way down to Wellington. As per usual I had taken a detour off the main highway and was exploring the NZ countryside when I came around a bend in the road and found myself in the middle of a herd of sheep. It was so fitting with the idealistic image of NZ that I had in my head that I crawled out and sat on the hood of my car taking photos as they wandered by. That was one of my first introductions to NZ and biginning of my love affair with NZ road trips. I'm still here over 2 years later and hitting the road to continue exploring every chance I get!
Monica 3 years ago

We were on our way to Mount Maunganui from Auckland one New Years, when my partner realised 200km later that he had left his wallet on top of the car after paying for gas in Hamilton! We never did get his wallet back (was full of notes too as we were planning on paying in cash for the whole trip), but at least we did manage to have a reasonable time :)
Millie T 3 years ago

toddling along in my beloved granny's trusty Toyota Corolla to a family reunion in Maramarua.......a lovely one on one bonding session which I will never forget.
Kalasia Senico 3 years ago

When I was little we were in a mini bus and it was a nightmare this is why.
We were on the way to Wellington in a mini van and were half way there(4 hours).
"I feel sick" said my little brother,"can we go home?".
"Look there is a KFC just around the corner can you hold on?" said mum.
"NO" said my brother.
By this stage i was bored stiff,so i started to play I-spy."I spy my little eye something begining with...EWWW!!
My brother had just vomited all over the front window as well as the sats mums hair and all over me!!!!.
From there on if my brother said he felt sick we stoped straight away.(clever)
Pennie Ball 3 years ago

This was my great kiwi road trip from 08-09 New Years mixing up friends, partying and nature.
Camping with mates in Kuatuna, Coromandel for two nights including a night at the legendary Coroglen Tavern to see Tiki and Shapeshifter. Cruising down the freeway to the Mecca of Gisborne for the fantastic Rhythm and Vines Festival to celebrate the New Year, partying to great NZ bands such as Shihad. Then becoming one with nature with a four-day hike around Lake Waikaremoana, staying in DOC huts with no electricity and having to carry all of our own food and cooking equipment on our backs. Finishing up with a night in Rotorua and a well-deserved soak in the natural hot springs.
GOOD TIMES :-)
azpen 3 years ago

The trip in a Mini (an old one) from Dunedin to Auckland and back again every University summer holidays for four years. Great fun.
Terry109 3 years ago

For your Carol and Nev Comp.
Hi, some while ago, the boss and I, along with her sister and grossly overweight husband Stan, embarked on a 2 week motorhome trip around Tasmania. Getting around Stan in the confines of a motorhome was always a problem as was his toilet requirements. Public facilities seemed the best option as the cubical in our 'home' was somewhat small. 2.30am....Stan wakes to respond to nature. In the effort to get out of his bunk, proceeds to shake rattle and roll the entire vehicle waking all travellers. Being very considerate he decides not to use the onboard facility and opens the door to the outside. Some while later the door closes and the reverse roll and rattle gets him back into bed.
I am now wide awake and feel a similar urge to that he has just satisfied. I climb quietly from my bunk, open the door as he had done and stepped out. The ground was wet and warm.
The buggar had piddled from the step.
Cheers from Terry 09-6343376, terry@jackson.co.
spunky11 3 years ago

This isn't so much a Kiwi road trip, as much as a Kiwi road trip fantasy (or nightmare)....ever wondered if you took a bouncy pink Moon Hopper from Capre Reinga and bounced all the way to Bluff, how many bounces would iot take??? Well, that's how many dollars I want to win in Powerball....