‘Come back from the dead to haunt the Campermatic. This is typical of you!’

New Zealand’s Flaxworks theatre company bring the world premiere of their new comedy Carol & Nev to The Basement theatre in Auckland from Monday June 15 - 20, 2009.

Phil Ormsby and Alex Ellis founders of Flaxworks and acclaimed New Zealand director Anna Marbrook are working together for the first time to bring Carol & Nev to the stage.

‘Carol & Nev is our third original show and we are very excited to work with someone as experienced as Anna who has been part of so many successful New Zealand theatre, film and television productions’ says Phil ‘Having Anna help develop Carol & Nev and now direct has been the icing on the cake.’

Flaxworks, who have spent much of 2007 and 2008 performing sell out shows of Murder by Chocolate around New Zealand and more recently garnering excellent reviews and delighting audiences at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2009, say they are looking forward to getting Carol & Nev up and running.

‘It is an amazing opportunity for us to perform our third show as part of the STAMP programme at THE EDGE after Biscuit & Coffee and Murder by Chocolate but also to give Auckland the first peek at Carol & Nev,’ says Alex. ‘We have never performed at The Basement before and are very excited about it’.

It’s the great kiwi road trip. Straight down the Island, cross Cook Strait and on to the Bach. Five toilet stops, lunch on the road, sleep on the Ferry and straight on till morning.

Carol & Nev are on the road, taking the family campervan to their daughters wedding at the bay. Only catch is Carol died in 1984.

Nev is comfortable, middle aged and has been resigned to ‘getting on with the business of life’ alone - until now. Has Carol returned from beyond the grave to haunt him for the journey? Or could Nev just be having a nervous breakdown on the eve of the wedding? Is this the beginning or the end? Whatever it is, he has 24 hours to get to his daughters wedding in the family campervan with the ghost of his dead wife trapped inside.

From the creators of Biscuit & Coffee and Murder by Chocolate comes the hilarious road trip of a life time.  Set entirely in a van it’s a unique perspective of recent New Zealand history, a tale about the damage time wreaks on youthful ideals and the difference between growing up and giving up.

‘It has definitely been a challenge, performing in such a confined acting space’ says Alex, ‘but from our own experience touring and spending so much time driving, that is often the time when the most enlightening, scary and hilarious conversations take place, when there’s nowhere to hide and no escape!’.

‘Nev! It doesn’t matter! My dream, your nervous breakdown, it’s all the same. Wherever you’re going, I’ll be going with you.’

‘This show is about life’ says Phil ‘so many of us are concerned with ‘the business of life’ we forget to live. This play is about remembering to enjoy it’.

Carol & Nev is the journey of a life time. He must convince her she’s dead, she must convince him he’s alive!

Carol & Nev plays at The Basement, Lower Grey’s Ave, Auckland CBD from Monday 15 - Saturday 20 June at 8pm. Tickets available through THE EDGE Ticketing Service (09)3573355 or www.the-edge.co.nz

For more information visit www.flaxworks.com

Or contact Alex Ellis – Publicist

alex@flaxworks.com

021345784 or 09 8458208