thebigidea.nz/stories/how-... #shakespere #musicaltheatre #lovehaterelationship The Tempestuous coming to TAPAC in #auckland next week! :)

Opening next week in Auckland at TAPAC. The Tempestuous. “Incredibly clever” RNZ. An hilarious comedy musical filled with songs, dance, a lutulele, the great Sicily tart baketh off and a whole lot of sword jokes. Less Swifty more witchy! #shakespeare #swifty #musicaltheatre #aucklandnz #comedy

Good lord this is straight up voter suppression. So blatant. Ggnnrrgghhhh

If you want a laugh to distract from the global doom scrolling come and see me in The Tempestuous at TAPAC October 30- Nov 2 Opening is a fundraiser for Shine “incredibly clever” Radio NZ. #Shakespeare #musicalcomedy #musicaltheatre #thetempestuous #nztheatre

Republicans willing to appoint anti vaxxer bullshit to gain their followers’ votes so that more people will die is not really surprising. All republicans seem to want is people to die whether it’s in childbirth, no healthcare, homelessness, disease or a hail of bullets. It’s fucking mindboggling.

So @aucklandfc.bsky.social is this job playing less than minimum wage? Which is illegal methinks? I think your boss has a bob or two. Or is this a misprint? #fortheloveoffootball

New episode of the podcast has landed, highlighting just 4 of the 400+ different shows taking place in the Camden Fringe this year. Listen in for more on GAP, Fruitcake, A Roof Above My Head and The Tempestuous by @pennyashton.bsky.social pod.link/1667974179

Well yay for my first Canadian Review from the lovely Jenny Revue #wpgfringe #wpgfringe2025 @winnipegfringe #shakespeare #musicalcomedy On tomorrow at 4.30!

@CamdenFringe.bsky.social #Interview: The Tempestuous "I knew I had to tell a feisty woman's story... knowing women were banned from the Elizabethan stage is even more delicious." 7 - 9 August @pennyashton.bsky.social #theatre #fringe #kiwisinlondon everything-theatre.co.uk/2025/07/inte...

SO! #wpgfringe how many of you have migrated to BlueSky from there that shall not be named?? Here's a show for your consideration alllll the way from little ole NZ :) #thetempestuous tickets.winnipegfringe.com/36221/36946

I was literally just thinking about this and this story pops up, lol. Youth is wasted on the young indeed ;)

Last stop on my six venue Aussie tour opens tomorrow! The georgous Street Theatre in Canberra. Extra show added before I open is pretty special. Thanks ACT.

The Tempestuous: A Shrew'd New Comedy by Will Shakespeare & @pennyashton.bsky.social 7-9 August at The Old Red Lion. A comedy musical mashup of the Bard's best bits, from NZ. camdenfringe.com/events/the-t...

The last season of the Handmaid’s tale could have been 1/2 the length without close up Joan face realising something.

I look forward to the numerous articles and opinion pieces about Chris Bishop's drinking problem now. #NZPol

I’m flying to start an Aussie tour, I watch a movie then check into the interwebs and I am delighted to see the Chris Bishop fuckery blowing right up in his face. As. It. Should. Shut up ya dickhead indeed. #bishboshbash

So the government fails to implement a digital spend levy and contribute it to local media, and then slashed radio nz budgets. And ACT crows about it? But wants a robust media? #yeahright Ggnnnrrgghhhhhhhh #onetermgovernment

I am so fucked off with this clown car of idiots running NZ right now. It's infuriatingly pathetic how little they care for anything except making the rich richer. Lower Wage women are the ones to hold down while you steal your tax cuts from their wallets?!?! You despicable shallow fuckers.

Part of what really disturbs me about the sudden end of pay equity is the democratic implications - National did not say before the election that they would do this. It is now being passed under urgency, the same day as announcement, with no public input. NZers quite simply have not had a say.

#nzpol The pay equity decision today – just before Mothers Day – takes employment law back decades. It will likely impact the earnings of hundreds of thousands of women, often working in some of the most poorly paid work. It will cost us all in the long-run. A 🧵 www.beehive.govt.nz/release/chan...

Check out the hilarious live podcast from Womad with #whitelotus Star @morganaoreilly.bsky.social. showy-ovaries-with-penny-ashton.buzzsprout.com/1871201/epis...

Had a great time chatting with Mr John Willoughby (aka Bronwyn Turei) all about her fleshy self for Showy Ovaries. Spoiler alert she’s resilient AF and just as honest. Was amazing to hear all about her journey. Nga mihi e hoa. www.buzzsprout.com/1871201/epis...

I had a lot of fun doing this poem at WOMAD in response to some classic right wing bullshit I heard on the radio. #wokeaf #wokeywokewoke #wokester

My timing was wonderful to begin dabbling in the investment market……

I really should never update my iPhone coz of the stupid bullshit it pulls afterwards. Like not being able to easily search emails. I mean whoever does that*. *me every day

I tried to watch this once and couldn’t get into it. But now I am swoon deep in season three and loving it. Eye eye Cap’n Poldark. #poldark #bodiceripper

Awesome afternoon with friends at the Big Gay Out & nice catching up with the Auckland Council team, their tent was busy with lots of our staff team and elected members supporting. Really good turnout, with a great family atmosphere & everyone was having fun despite recent attacks on our community.

I have only just caught up with destiny bullshit having been at a drag show tonight. And now I am so enraged I’m practically vibrating. And why the fuck has no one been arrested? Honestly Brian Tamaki is an absolute abhorrent Neanderthal and an embarrassment to nz. Fuck him and his “god”.

'Safety first' when sacking Rome.

Air bnb host just left a review saying we left a Bach very untidy as we didn’t make the bed and hang the tea towels on the right hooks. Like wtaf. First negative review ever and over something so petty when she’ll just throw them all in the washing machine anyway? I’m also obsessing far too much.

Hmmm I just started up a wee managed investment fund to see how it might go. Seems I timed that real well for global economic trumpageddon. #fuckofftrump

I am feeling this every news cycle.

For a country who supposedly ditched a monarchy trump sure seems to be able to sign whatever the fuck he wants into being. Break the law but say you love me? Come on out of jail. It’s bewildering and gross.

Actual picture of the cast of Austen Found arriving on the Cressy into Canterbury in 1850. First four ship royalty coming to the World Buskers Festival. (Fact checked by Meta) www.worldbuskersfestival.co.nz/performer/pe...

Anyones else’s dad do things like ring me to see if I can go pick up some bean bag beans that cost 50c in Waitakere where they only have the beans because a beanbag split. And bring them on my flight to Christchurch. Where I’m going for the buskers festival? No? Just my pathologically tight father?

Ketamine is a hell of a drug.

Watching Seven Brides for Seven Brothers for research and thinking this is pretty appalling but enjoyable enough. Then they started snatching women off the street. What. The. Actual. Fuck. “It was of its time”?!? The kidnapping sex slaves times?!? Just wow. #musicals

Simeon Brown: ruining portfolios since ages ago. A man who celebrated Roe Vs Wade? Wtf. Guess they can’t pretend their policies can’t possibly be racist now Reti has gone. God this government blows.

This whole the news doesn’t start til jan 27th so no need for Breakfast tv til then NZ has going is weird. I realise I have the internet but I like Chris Chang’s puns.

@jenashton.bsky.social people are going to think we are sisters :) Just a mutual interest in a Badger.

Ha thanks @micheleacourt.bsky.social looked who you were following and found where the Twitter people went. X

Kia Ora abyss that is the first posting on a social media platform. Let’s see where blue sky thinking gets me.