2016 Edinburgh Fringe

Winner: Best Theatre, Dunedin Fringe. 'Beatrix didn't want a tiara. Beatrix wanted a beard!' From award-winning New Zealand company Trick of the Light Theatre (The Bookbinder) comes a tale of one young girl's increasingly inventive efforts to grow the world's most magnificent beard. Join a madcap musical romp as our plucky heroine shakes up social rules and attempts to answer the questions that have puzzled mankind since the dawn of the beard. 'Wonderfully straddles the line between a Gilbert and Sullivan sensibility and the Flight of the Conchords kind of kinkier, anarchic humour' (Theatreview.org.nz).