Well Hung

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Where: Maidment Theatre, 8 Alfred St, Auckland CBD Show map

Restrictions: All Ages

Ticket Information:

A Reserve Adult: $59.00
A Reserve Senior 65+: $54.00
A Reserve Concession - Full Time Students, Unders 25s, Industry Association Members: $40.00
B Reserve Adult: $54.00
B Reserve Senior 65+: $49.00
B Reserve Concession - Full Time Students, Unders 25s, Industry Association Members: $37.00
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Mistaken identities, police cock-ups and more broom-cupboard action than Boris Becker could dream of...

Cast includes: Pua Magasiva, Dena Kennedy, Carl Bland, Adam Gardiner, Simon Ferry
Direction: Ben Crowder
Design: Andrew Foster, Elizabeth Whiting, Brad Gledhill

A small Kiwi town is shaken by a double murder. All hell breaks loose when a media-hungry big-city detective arrives in the midst of Blossom Festival fever, determined to solve the case. It should be pure and simple. Everyone in town knows Wally did it.

But life at the local cop-shop is seldom pure and never simple. Trev, the junior constable, has got himself in a mess with Lynette, the sergeant’s wife, and the doyenne of the local Drama Society has her eye on Detective Sharp.

With mistaken identities, police cock-ups and more broom-cupboard action than Boris Becker could dream of, Well Hung is deliciously funny, furious, farcical Kiwi comedy at its best.

"This retro heartland farce is another forgotten gem of Kiwi playwrighting. Robert Lord was the first of his generation to take an entertaining satirical view of serious Kiwi issues. The unsolved murder of Jeannette and Harvey Crewe was the impulse for Well Hung — but Lord picks up on the classic bungled police procedure. It's Ortonesque, sexy, irreverent and very, very funny."
— Colin

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royalcourtier 1 year ago

Disregarding the tastelessness of the title and advertising, this might be an amusing farce. But I hope that it is better written than the description. It should not be "pure and simple" - I think the author meant to say just "simple". Perhaps he or she is simple, and doesn't realise that "pure and simple" means something altogether different from what was obviously intended! And of coruse "Detective Sharp" is the American idiom, not Kiwi.