The Birdmann And Egg

Nicola has started volunteering at Circa Theatre, and is called upon to ush about once a month. She was scheduled for The Birdmann And Egg – Birdhouse, which is ostensibly a children’s show. But I thought I’d go along as well to see what was happening.

Nicola in mid-ush

The show features two characters on stage, who are – you guessed it! – The Birdmann (a man), and Egg (an egg). The story, such as it is, revolves around Regurgitator, who is eating up all the cities in the world, including Wellington. Regurgitator is threatening to eat their home, The Great Tree, a sentient tree who offers them advice; as does Celsius, the computer. In between, there’s joke-telling, including inviting contributions from the audience, and a soft toy fight – again, involving the audience. Can Birdmann and Egg save the world with fun? There’s only one way to find out!

It was an early evening show, and only lasted 40 minutes, so afterwards we took ourselves off for dinner at Apaché. This is a Vietnamese restaurant that I’ve been to once before, and was unimpressed by the speed of service when we were having a pre-concert dinner, oh, years ago. Anyway, Nicola has been there more recently and they appear to have got their act together more now. The food was good, although the waiter’s recommendation that we needn’t order additional rice appeared to be, well, wrong. But other than that, the food was tasty.