Biscuit & Coffee Tour Dates

To fill your chosen theatre with the rich dark aroma of coffee beans and intrigue call Alex on +64 21 345784 or email alex@flaxworks.com




THE START OF IT ALL…BEAN THERE DONE THAT!

If it's possible to get drunk on coffee we did, one afternoon, talking about how great it would be to just get on the road and tour a show. We had a coffee, tossed some ideas around, had another coffee, talked some more and in a hyper-active state agreed that we should write and tour a show about a character who drank far too much coffee, and thus Biscuit & Coffee and Flaxworks was born.

With no touring experience, no contacts and no real idea about what we were doing we bought a van off the side of the road for $400.00, booked some venues and hit the road.

We performed in cafés so tiny Alex was almost sitting on the patrons knees, we played a 600 seat abandoned movie theatre in a town with a population of 200 and rural community halls where the blackouts were compromised by the moonlight shining through the holes in the walls. We played an exclusive tourist restaurant where we were the cheapest thing on the menu and a tiny rural community on the night of a major rugby final where the eleven ushers outnumbered the audience. We learned not to rely on door sales in places where it might snow – in the summer. One night in the middle of winter in the middle of nowhere the van broke down and rolled to a stop outside a lonely motel with a disturbing similarity to the one in Psycho. We've slept in the van, at the homes of kindly audience members and in a derelict nurses home reminiscent of the empty Hotel in The Shining. We had an entire boarding school at our disposal one long weekend when the accommodation in the town we were playing in was completely sold out due to the National Junior Highland Dancing Championships, and of course, countless backpackers and pubs in varying states of repair and hygiene.

But we have survived to tell the tale and years later with a growing repertoire of shows and thousands of miles on the clock, we wouldn't change a thing. We sold the van for $406.00 (a profit of two coffees!), bought a bigger one and continue to tour further and further afield. We have since performed Biscuit & Coffee, (which has been called everything from Coffee & Biscuits to Tea and Cookies by various media throughout the country) our second show Murder by Chocolate and now Carol & Nev, over 200 times in over 80 venues throughout New Zealand and more recently, Australia, to critical and audience acclaim and are more than ready to take our quirky tales to the international stage.