24-28 MAR, 8.30PM

HOUSE OF ICK

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  • Date 24-28 MAR, 8.30PM
  • Venue Studio
  • Price $17-$30+
  • Runtime 55 mins
  • Director MAMAEROA MUNN
  • Cast MEGAN CONNOLLY AND NINA HOGG
  • Composer Phoebe Caldeiro and Ben Kelly
  • Producer NINA HOGG
Show info

House of Ick is bursting at the seams with outrageous characters, c*nty musical numbers, visceral messy sketches, and the best cringe you could hope for. Ginge & Minge (Nina Hogg & Megan Connolly) serve as your sickening hosts on the road to hot (but disgusting) enlightenment and show you around the wonderful characters that lurk within its shadows. The doors to the House of Ick are open and you WILL be converted.

 WINNER of the Most Spectacular Organised Chaos Award 2025 at NZ Fringe Festival.
“more stimulating than anything playing at the theatre” - The Regional News

“It made me love stupid.” - Audience member

Delight in their hypothetical kissing doctors, believe in their real life shared pelvic floor physiotherapist, and avert your eyes from organic Hastings marketplace solutions. Prepare for German electronica, monster energy fueled children and 80s power suits. If you enjoy electric chemistry, drag performance, spectacle, second-hand embarrassment, and just delighting in a good time, this show is for you!!!!!!

Ginge & Minge are an award-winning queer and high-energy comedy duo from Te Whanganui-a-Tara who specialise in improv, sketch and audience-interaction based comedy. Breakthrough Comedians 2024 winners (Welly Comedy Awards) and Best Newcomer-Wellington nominees 2023 (NZICF), and are hot off the heels of their Aotearoa and Australian tours. Their most notable performances include their award-nominated shows Jez & Jace: Lads on Tour, Fame or Die and Lay Over.

“Ginge and Minge latch an iron grip onto the audience and refuse to let go” -Wellyott

“Although I would normally be against it, this is one cult I would recommend being indoctrinated into.” - Art Murmurs

“The two delight in the cringe they set up for themselves. They revel in the discomfort with a smile on their faces…” - Wellyott

“This was the funniest thing I’ve ever seen” - Audience Member NZ Fringe

“While it might simply sound like shock-value humour, the show is in fact expertly put together and performed by a phenomenal duo who make it look effortless.” - The Regional News

Creative Team:
Writers/Performers: Nina Hogg and Megan Connolly
Director: Mamaeroa Munn
Composer: Phoebe Caldeiro and Ben Kelly
Image credit: Scott Maxim

Other info

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE STUDIO IS NOT WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE.

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LOCKOUT: PLEASE ARRIVE 15 MINUTES BEFORE SHOW START TIME. LATECOMERS ADMITTED INTO THE THEATRE AT BASEMENT'S DISCRETION - NO REFUNDS WILL BE GIVEN.

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BASEMENT MATES:

$17 BASEMENT MATES TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE FOR THIS EVENT. FIND OUT MORE ABOUT BASEMENT MATES.

Content warnings

BLOOD, STRONG LANGUAGE, SEXUAL REFERENCES AND FLASHING LIGHTS - R16

Presented by
GINGE & MINGE