From the writer of Middle Age Spread and Conjugal Rites comes a new comedy in which country comes to town.
You Gotta be Joking stars Tim Bartlett (An Angel at My Table, Out of the Blue) as Dickie Hart, who sells his back-country farm and moves to the city, only to find himself like a fish out of water, floundering in a crowded street with no vege garden and no dogs.
This quintessential Kiwi bloke is down to earth, great with a piece of No8 wire and determined to have a crack.
Suddenly he is coaching a rugby team, dabbling in amateur dramatics and - in the absence of wife Glenda overseas - even attracting the odd dinner date.
Veteran playwright Roger Hall lets New Zealand's greatest fan loose on everyone from real estate agents to talkback hosts.
• Directed by Geraldine Brophy (Grumpy Old Women, Party Girls), You Gotta be Joking is in the Arrowtown Athenaeum Hall on November 13.
