#Public tickets on-sale from 11 Jan 2010

“Can I remind you: sabotage, is a French word.”

With Jennifer Ward-Lealand • George Henare
Direction Raymond Hawthorne • Design Tracy Grant Lord

This provocative new comedy from the author of THE TUTOR, NIU SILA and KING AND COUNTRY pokes fun at three cultures, two islands and one country.

Playwright Dave Armstrong takes revisionist delight in imagining a different turn of events at Akaroa in 1838.

South Zealand or Le Sud is now an independent, prosperous French-speaking socialist nation where people work only 30 hours a week, enjoy long wine-fuelled lunches, and the popular Prime Minister, Francois Duvauchelle, is a renowned womaniser.

Meanwhile, English-speaking North Zealand is starved of electricity. So its Prime Minister, Jim Peterson, leads a delegation south to persuade the rich neighbours to get the goodwill - and electricity - flowing north.

Part farce, part satire, all comedy LE SUD has played sell-out seasons around the country.

Warning: This play makes many hilarious jabs at the political, sporting, religious, racial and cultural values that New Zealanders hold dear!