• Paul with a straggly dark beard in a frame
  • Ralph with a big black beard and pirates hat
  • Paul with a big blue beard and stilts. Abby smiles up at him
  • Ralph with short black beard and soft toy bear
  • Paul with a stringy beard standing in barbershop doorway
  • Paul, Abby and Ralph with their arms out towards camera in celebration
  • Paul and Ralph on the defence. Ralph crouches over Paul's shoulder. Paul has his arms out in a stop position
 

Beards! Beards! Beards!

— Beatrix didn’t want a tiara. Beatrix wanted a BEARD!

From Charles Darwin to Abraham Lincoln, Karl Marx to Mr Twit, it is said that the secret to power and greatness is all in the size and shape of the beard. Beards! Beards! Beards! is a tale of one young girl’s increasingly inventive efforts to grow the world’s most magnificent beard.

Armed with bubble bath and canned spaghetti, join a madcap and hilarious musical romp as our plucky young heroine shakes up social rules and attempts to answer the questions that have puzzled mankind since the dawn of the beard.

 
 
  • "An engagingly witty gem of a piece that is really worth shaving off an hour out of your busy schedule for."

  • "Wonderfully straddles the line between a Gilbert & Sullivan sensibility and the Flight of the Conchords kind of kinkier, anarchic humour."

Cast

Abby Howells

Beatrix

Abby Howells

Paul Waggott

Various

Paul Waggott

Ralph McCubbin Howell

Various

Ralph McCubbin Howell

 
 

Crew

Hannah Smith

Director

Hannah Smith

Ralph McCubbin Howell

Writer

Ralph McCubbin Howell

Adrianne Roberts

Producer

Adrianne Roberts
& Show Pony

Gareth Hobbs

Music

Gareth Hobbs

Marcus McShane

Lighting Design

Marcus McShane

Edward Watson

Production Design

Edward Watson

Nick Zwart

Set construction

Nick Zwart

Jon Coddington

Beards construction

Jon Coddington

Dawa Devereux

Beard construction

Dawa Devereux

Nell Williams

Beard construction

Nell Williams

Dean Hewison

Video trailer

Dean Hewison

 
 

Afternoons - RNZ 2016

Saturday Morning - RNZ 2016

Previous seasons

  • Edinburgh Festival Fringe

    Assembly Roxy, Upstairs, Edinburgh, UK

    Aug 4 - 28, 2016

  • Salisbury International Arts Festival

    Blackledge Theatre, Godolphin School, UK

    May 31 - Jun 1, 2016

  • Brighton Fringe

    Sweet St Andrews, UK

    May 22-28, 2016

  • Te Whanganui-a-Tara (Wellington)

    Bats Theatre, NZ

    Apr 5-9, 2016

  • Hawkes Bay Arts Festival

    The Famous Spiegeltent, Karanema (Havelock North), NZ

    Oct 31, 2015

  • Nelson Arts Festival

    Theatre Royal, Whakatū (Nelson), NZ

    Oct 19, 2015

  • Tāmaki-makaurau (Auckland)

    Basement Theatre, NZ

    Apr 7-11, 2015

  • Capital E! National Arts Festival

    Circa Theatre, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, NZ

    Mar 16 - 21, 2015

  • Dunedin Fringe Festival

    The Playhouse Theatre, Ōtepoti (Dunedin), NZ

    Mar 12 - 14, 2015

Beards poster

Image: Stephen A’Court & Edward Watson

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