Couch Soup

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Event Couch Soup
Venue Newtown Community Centre, Newtown, New Zealand
First Date 22 February 2005
Last Date 26 February 2005
Dates Estimated No
Status Unknown
World Premiere No
Description Take four actors, twenty-seven mini-plays and one really big chunk of lounge suite. Brew for approximately one hour. What Urban Vineyards came out with was an eclectic mix of tasty morsels, ranging from poetic, farcical and hilarious through to unintelligible. Starting as a festival of mini plays in Hamilton in 1998, Couch Soup challenged thirteen playwrights to create original, presentable theatre built around one running theme, the ever-present prop, set-piece and fifth actor, a moulding brown couch. The plays explore in miniature; conflicts, personality clashes, exceptional and exceptionally weird people and situations; they include new-age religious rants and a travel guide to hell.
Primary Genre Theatre - Spoken Word
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Ross Macleod Actor
Maria Quigley Actor
David Foote Director
Ross Macleod Playwright
Text Nationality New Zealand
Production Nationality New Zealand
Event Status Completed
Data Set Theatre Aotearoa
Event Identifier 195650