Our Parents Children

BATS Theatre have been producing their Young And Hungry season of short plays over the last week or so. We went along to see Our Parents Children, a play which tells the story of how the world is repopulated after a disaster. The disaster in question is a virus released by an American extremist, Joe. He plans to repopulate the world with clones of himself and his New Zealand accomplice and protagonist of this story, Mary, who he has met online. As the story progresses, we find out more about Mary’s background. She then goes on to her cloning experiment, but makes some crucial modifications to Joe’s plan...by not including him in it.

The production wasn't up to the high standards of other plays we've seen around Wellington - very much a student piece, which is what you might expect from something called "young and hungry". The cast seemed to have a lot of unnecessary members, and not all the elements of the play were well explained. The male characters, in particular, were very sketchy...although this may have been intentional given the theme.

Afterwards we headed out down Cuba Street to Matterhorn, only to be told that it would be 45 minutes before we could expect a table. So we decided to got to Scopa instead, and had a very good dinner there.