Last week I was offered my first professional blogging gig. Remuneration was not in any form that would feed the mouths I have waiting at home for me each evening, but more in the comp variety. I was offered four free tickets to Silo Theatres’ latest production ‘Did I Believe It?’ in return to mentioning it on this here blog. Well, no I couldn’t Adam & Eve it. I didn’t have the heart to inform the bearer of this offer that although this blog does average over 84 hits a day*, most of them are less than a second (yes most of you have stopped reading this now), and quite a number of those ‘hits’ are from Europe, who I imagine wouldn’t be heading down to New Zealand on the backing of reading this entry. They might, stranger things have happened.
I’m no corporate whore, but four free tickets are four free tickets. I accepted the offer and in my mind already started making the potent references to what I already new about this production.
The play is co written by that tall guy who used to be on breakfast TV who is friends with that short guy from breakfast radio. I know as I have seen them at the Golden Dawn. I see said tall person at my local Nosh from time to time. He is very tall.
Loosely based on that somewhat underrated BBC mock science educational television show Look Around You (from the comic genius who brought you Lee Titt’s Markets of Britain), Did I Believe It? puts you in the studio audience while the presenters and researchers propagate the inane and the momentous facts about all there is to know about vodka. This is where the sponsoring vodka brand steps in, but as I mentioned I am no corporate whore, so will mention them no more.
Imagine my dismay when I found out that said comp tickets were only for the Sunday matinee show. I don’t do matinees for reasons I can’t go into here. But end result, no matinee, no attendance, no review of the play.
Since I am a little short of material this week, I have decided to refer to it anyway.
A friend of mine went however and she enjoyed it so much she was compelled to mention it not only on Twitter but also on her Facebook wall. I know, people still use Facebook. Her restricted Twitter admission was:
Did I Believe It? @vodka sponsor’s name. Seriously hilarious. Go and see it. She does not mince her words my friend. Her next tweet went on to mention that the quality of my tweets has plummeted. Hey get off my back, it was a Monday, I was having a bad day, and I had a stone in my shoe. OK!
Any way, I hear Did I Believe It? is very good. If you are in Auckland Wellington
The link to the Silo Threate is here
The link to purchase tickets is here
The link to Look Around You is here
And here is an interesting link all about Lap Giraffes
*based on the one day average of yesterday
Update: Apparently the naughty folk from Did I Believe It? Are refusing to admit that inspiration from this format came from the BBC TV show Look Around You, and are in fact citing the same influences as the TV had as documented in Wikipedia. The Gall!
Needless to say this has engulfed a flame war between the two sides (albeit one sided) which Wellingtonista has picked up on.
