Gag Reflex: A Scandalous Solo Show - TAHI Festival 2022

A Scandalous Solo Show by Rachel Atlas featuring world-class stunts and a heart-warming feminist story.

Rachel Atlas has a complicated relationship with danger. From teenage stripper to sword swallower, from accidental dominatrix to knife-thrower’s assistant, she’s never been able to resist living on the edge. In this riotous tell-all debut solo show, expect to be thrilled by world-class stunts, raw humour and the heart-warming journey of a dangerous woman finally finding safety.

Rachel Atlas is an internationally renowned circus performer and a veteran of the vaudeville and Fringe Festival circuits the world over. Gag Reflex will be her first autobiographical work: lifting the curtain on her fascinating life of salacious sexual exploits, bad trips, worse men, and, of course, death-defying misadventures.

A thrilling, titillating, tear-jerking theatre full of world-class stunts and winner of the 2022 NZ Fringe Festival Best in Fringe Award, Gag Reflex is a heart-warming feminist story not to be missed!

"Atlas is a natural on stage and threw herself wholeheartedly into each scene." Lilli Margaret, Art Murmurs, 2022

Creator & Performer: Rachel Atlas | Director: Sabrina Martin | Director Mentor: Sameena Zehra | Assistant Producer: Petra Shotwell | Lighting & Projection Designer: Bekky Boyce| Sound Designer: Maxwell Apse | Stage Manager: James Kiesel | Set Designer / Assistant Stage Manager: Erika Takahashi | Costume Design: Go Go Amy | Originally produced by George Fowler/Hugo Grrrl

The Stage is wheelchair accessible. For full details about accessibility at BATS, go to bats.co.nz/about-bats/accessibility

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