As we were going to see a death-themed play, it seemed appropriate to go to a death-themed restaurant for dinner beforehand. Now, there probably aren't many of these in your home town, but Pan De Muerto ("Bread Of Death") has been on the Wellington restaurant scene for a number of years. It's a Mexican restaurant, decorated with imagery from the Mexican Day of the Dead, with which, thanks to our global culture, we're all familiar these days. The food is a cut above your average Tex-Mex, and contained some genuine spiciness (a rare find in Wellington Mexican establishments - I've been sorely disappointed by the likes of La Boca Loca, for instance).
Benedict Cumberbatch Must Die is a new play, set in Wellington. Benedict Cumberbatch is due in Wellington to do more voice-synching as Smaug, the dragon from The Hobbit. Three young Wellingtonian "Cumberbitches" get together, and discuss their obsession with Benedict Cumberbatch, and how they plan to meet him, put on a one-woman show (this is quickly adapted to a three-woman show after the other two object). They discuss how Benedict is going to fall in love with them, and one of them reads from her fan-fiction, which, as is the nature of fan-fic everywhere, is truly dire.
In a rare moment of lucidity, they realise that none of these fantasies is going to happen. They then come up with the only possible solution to the misery that will be caused by Bendict Cumberbatch dating, and then marrying someone else. You guessed it...Benedict Cumberbatch must die.
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