Gag Reflex
Presented by Hugo Grrrl
A Scandalous Solo Show by Rachel Atlas featuring world-class stunts and a heart-warming feminist story.
When: 8:30pm, 16–17 September
Where: The Stage, BATS Theatre, 1 Kent Tce (wheelchair accessible)
Cost: $22 · $20 · $18
Rachel Atlas has a complicated relationship with danger. From teenage stripper to sword swallower, from accidental dominatrix to knife-thrower’s assistant, she’s never been able to resist living on the edge. In this riotous tell-all debut solo show, expect to be thrilled by world-class stunts, raw humour and the heart-warming journey of a dangerous woman finally finding safety.
Rachel Atlas is an internationally renowned circus performer and a veteran of the vaudeville and Fringe Festival circuits the world over. Gag Reflex will be her first autobiographical work: lifting the curtain on her fascinating life of salacious sexual exploits, bad trips, worse men, and, of course, death-defying misadventures.
A thrilling, titillating, tear-jerking theatre full of world-class stunts and winner of the 2022 NZ Fringe Festival Best in Fringe Award, Gag Reflex is a heart-warming feminist story not to be missed!
Originally produced by George Fowler/Hugo Grrrl
The Stage is wheelchair accessible. For full details about accessibility at BATS, go to bats.co.nz/about-bats/accessibility
“Atlas is a natural on stage and threw herself wholeheartedly into each scene.”
Lilli Margaret, Art Murmurs, 2022
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Image Description: Performer Rachel Atlas stands side on facing the camera holding a sword upside down by the blade out in one hand. She wears a rhinestone-covered bold blue dress and matching veil that makes crown of golden spikes on her head pop. She wears bright red lipstick and is giving a dominating look to the camera.