My Best Dead Friend, from Zanetti Productions is presented at the
Southland Arts Festival.
Created by Anya Tate-Manning & Isobel MacKinnon, the play is
performed by Anya Tate-Manning with direction by Isobel MacKinnon.
December 1998. Dunedin. High summer in a town where there isn’t a lot
to do. This is a comedy about death, revolution, unfulfilled love; and
a possum.
Winner of the Best of Fringe at the NZ Fringe Festival, 2018, My Best
Dead Friend is a true story—a joyful, playful solo show from a heavy
heart.
With music ranging from The Verlaines to the Backstreet Boys, My Best
Dead Friend is a nostalgic, bitter-sweet comedy that celebrates
friendship and the challenges of growing up, even if you are not really
ready to.
What makes it all so engaging is the degree to which we can see
ourselves, our friends, our lives and a larger social history in the
consummate storytelling Tate-Manning’s Anya delivers. As Tate-Manning
gets to learn from who Anya was and how life was back then, so do we.
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