Overview
From a team of Unitec's recent theatre graduates, Auckland's newest up and coming artists, comes a double bill of two original works; Substance and You Are My B.O.
Substance explores the idea that when the chips are down you find out who your real friends are. Nat and Greer share a dream: to break free from their mundane lives and travel to New York. They'll do anything; take anything, to escape reality. But ignoring the truth isn't going to get them anywhere and life for both girls is about to become anything but mundane. Problems arise in the form of Jason, Nat's boyfriend, dealing drugs and Greer's slick new boyfriend Bryce who has a tendency to stir things up. The question is will the girls' already fraught friendship survive much longer?
In You Are My B.O. Barack Obama, tomato plants and tending to an overbearing mother make up the pattern of Desiree Murchison’s existence. Venturing past the walls of her cramped home was replaced many years ago with a connection to the outside world via Sky TV and the internet. When the new lodger Ben moves in Desiree is unable to ignore the similarities he bears to her hero B.O., and embarks on her own campaign to get to know him. Ben, for reasons of his own, must keep to himself. But can he keep his secret and will Desiree ever persuade him to sit down for a piece of cake, a cup of tea and a chat?