House of Ick

House of Ick is bursting at the seams with outrageous characters, c*nty musical numbers, visceral messy sketches, and the best cringe you could hope for.

Ginge & Minge (Nina Hogg & Megan Connolly) serve as your sickening hosts on the road to hot (but disgusting) enlightenment and show you around the wonderful characters that lurk within its shadows. The doors to the House of Ick are open and you WILL be converted.

Delight in their hypothetical kissing doctors, believe in their real life shared pelvic floor physiotherapist, and avert your eyes from organic Hastings marketplace solutions.

Prepare for German electronica, monster energy fueled children and 80s power suits.

If you enjoy electric chemistry, drag performance, spectacle, second-hand embarrassment, and just having a good time, this show is for you!!!!!!

“more stimulating than anything playing at the theatre”

The Regional News

“It made me love stupid.”

Audience member

Ginge & Minge are an award-winning queer and high-energy comedy duo from Te Whanganui-a-Tara who specialise in improv, sketch and audience-interaction based comedy. Breakthrough Comedians 2024 winners (Welly Comedy Awards) and Best Newcomer-Wellington nominees 2023 (NZICF), and are hot off the heels of their Aotearoa and Australian tours. Their most notable performances include their award-nominated shows Jez & Jace: Lads on Tour, Fame or Die and Lay Over.

““Ginge and Minge latch an iron grip onto the audience and refuse to let go” -Wellyott

“Although I would normally be against it, this is one cult I would recommend being indoctrinated into.” - Art Murmura

“The two delight in the cringe they set up for themselves. They revel in the discomfort with a smile on their faces…” - Wellyott

““This was the funniest thing I’ve ever seen”” - Audience Member NZ Fringe

“While it might simply sound like shock-value humour, the show is in fact expertly put together and performed by a phenomenal duo who make it look effortless.” - The Regional News

Creative team

Writers/Performers: Nina Hogg and Megan Connolly

Director: Mamaeroa Munn

Composer: Phoebe Caldeiro and Ben Kelly

Image credit: Scott Maxim

Content warning

Strong language, sexual references, blood, egregious consumption