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NZ International Science Festival presents: Somnium – the Science of Sleep

5–7 July 2008

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Sleep - we all do it and yet so much of it remains a mystery. How long should we sleep for, what do dreams mean, do babies dream, why do people sleep walk, why do we sleep at all? When we close our eyes and slide into that other existence, we enter a world steeped in folklore and superstition, a world that is as strange as it is fascinating.

Like any of the great mysteries of humanity, scientists have studied sleep for generations. As our understanding has grown and technology developed, more and more has become known about the sub-conscious brain. Catch up with the research and have a giggle.

Brought to you by Chris KP (Pre-Coital, Great Big Science Gig) Somnium is a hilarious new science cabaret show exploring the science of sleep. With songs, comedy, and multimedia this is the truth as we know it, in its most entertaining form. Laugh, think and wonder, and go home with something to really dream about.

Performance times:

Saturday 5 July 6pm
Sunday 6 July 8pm
Monday 7 July 5.30pm & 8pm

Ticket prices:

$25 for a full price ticket and $20 per ticket for groups of 6 or more
$18 for all other concessions


Past Productions

A Night with Beau Tyler

A Night with Beau Tyler on tour - Otago & Southland

A Streetcar Named Desire - Tenessee Williams Festival Provincetown U.S.A.

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tenessee Williams

Aladdin

Biscuit & Coffee

Brainfreeze: An Acting Toolkit

Bubblewrap and boxes

Cinderella

Confessions of a Pop-Tart

Conjugal Rites

Conjugal Rites by Roger Hall: Tour of Otago and Southland

Cornershop Confessions

D'Arranged Marriage

Dante’s Laboratory

Dirty Dusting by Trevor Wood & Ed Waugh

Don Juan in Soho

Don't Shoot Me, I'm Only The Piano Player

Duets

Dunedin Playback Theatre Company presents From the Hearth

Emma by Jane Austen

Fiona Scott-Norman's - The Needle & The Damage Done

Fortune on Tour - Who want to be 100? by Roger Hall

Four Flat Whites In Italy by Roger Hall

Giant peach lands in Dunedin!!

Hatch or The Plight of the Penguins

Head Full of Toys

Here's Hilda!

Hitchcock Blonde

Hot Pink Bits

I ♥ Camping

I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change.

Jack & the Beanstalk the Pantomime by Roger Hall

James & the Giant Peach

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Like Someone In Love - The life and death of Chet Baker

Lucky Numbers

Lullaby Jock

Mephymology at the Fortune Theatre

Milo's Wake

Moonlight & Magnolias by Ron Hutchinson

Mum's Choir

Murder by Chocolate

My First Time

My Heart Is Bathed In Blood

NZ International Science Festival presents: Somnium – the Science of Sleep

Patron Reviews for Dirty Dusting

Puppetry of the Penis

Raybon Kan: Discomfort Zone

Scared Scriptless: an Improv Deathmatch

Spaznuts presented by the star of TV sketch show Skithouse Damian Callinan

Stage South presents: Read Out Loud, The Rothwell Incident

Stand-up comedy with Jeremy Elwood & Jamie Bowen

The 39 Steps

The Clean House

The Energy of spirit evening

The Fortune Theatre & The Bacchanals present William Shakespeare's King Lear

The Frog Prince

The Rat Pack returns live

The Shape of Things

The Twits

The Witches

Two

Vebka

Waiting for Gateaux

Who Needs Sleep Anyway?

Who Needs Sleep Anyway? Regional Tour

Who wants to be 100? (Anyone who's 99!) by Roger Hall

Wuthering Heights

Calendar of Productions