Work Do

Overview

Kiwi comedy superstars Rose Matafeo and Alice Snedden bring an original, outlandish and undoubtedly hilarious Christmas comedy to Auckland's Basement Theatre this yuletide season.

Opening on Thursday, 29 November and running until Friday, 21 December, Work Do is set in 1997 at the offices of Go Away Travel as they prepare for their end of year celebration. Linda Harwood — the agency's charismatic yet inept leader — is keen to show her employees a good time. However, she is harbouring a secret that may dampen the evening's festivities.What will this ill-timed yuletide revelation do to a drunken party of co-workers who barely like each other when they're sober? The show is packed with cheeky office clichés and comical 90s nostalgia as the dreaded combination of colleagues and chardonnay unearths secrets that are sure get everyone's tinsel in a tangle. It promises to be "everything you wish your Christmas party to be, but never is."

This year's Christmas show is the tenth at the Basement and no doubt they will be pulling out all the stops to make it the biggest and best show to date with Snedden and Matafeo on writing duties and Leon Wadham at the helm as director.

As always, a star-studded cast can be expected. Roped in to perform this year are: Kanoa Lloyd, Jackie Van Beek, Jack Tame, Jono Pryor, Kimberley Crossman, Madeleine Sami, Guy Williams, Miriama Kamo, and loads more.

The Christmas show has the additional element of being the theatre's only public fundraiser so purchasing a ticket gives the audience the opportunity to support the local arts while being entertained.

Image: Andi Crown.