How to cook a kiwi: Laura Bruce's A to Z of Aotearoa

"an extraordinary evening of clean, sharp, and highly entertaining comedy"

Television cooking programme meets stand-up comedy in Canadian comedian Laura Bruce’s first solo show. 

Award-winning Canadian comedian Laura Bruce is bringing her solo show to Christchurch. 

Bruce takes an irreverent poke at Kiwi culture in “How to Cook a Kiwi: Laura Bruce’s N to Z of Aotearoa”. 

Proposing, among other things, to roast our national icon, Bruce’s show will be at Good Times Comedy Club in Christchurch on Saturday, July 8 at 6:30pm. 

Theatreview notes 

“Laura crafts an extraordinary evening of clean, sharp, and highly entertaining comedy…. “How to Cook a Kiwi: Laura Bruce’s N to Z of Aotearoa” is an uproarious comedy banquet, masterfully seasoning and searing local culture into a deliciously funny feast.”

A former resident of Merivale and now a familiar face on the national comedy scene, Bruce emigrated to New Zealand in 2019. She’ll share her observations, insights and frustrations as an immigrant to Aotearoa — together with some outrageous cooking tips. In “How to Cook a Kiwi”, ‘stand-up comedy’ collides with ‘television cooking programme’. 

Bruce was voted “Newcomer of the Year - South Island” by the New Zealand Comedy Guild in 2020. She was Runner-Up at the 2020 Christchurch Raw Comedy Quest, was a 2021 Wellington Raw Comedy Quest finalist, and is Wellington Comedy Awards’ “Joke of the Year” nominee for the past two years. 

Written, directed, and produced by Laura Bruce 

Original music by Jordan Turner.