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. WINNER of the Most Spectacular Organised Chaos Award 2025 at NZ Fringe Festival.

“more stimulating than anything playing at the theatre” - The Regional News

“It made me love stupid.” - Audience member

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 delighting in a good time, this show is for you!!!!!!

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 Murmurs

“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

Want to see even more from Basement Theatre? Click here to see their full schedule of upcoming shows!

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Please arrive at least 15 minutes before show start time. Latecomers admitted into the theatre at Basement's discretion. No refunds will be given. 

$17 Basement Mates tickets available for this event. Find out more about Basement Mates here.

Please note unfortunately the Basement Studio space is not wheelchair accessible.

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COVID-19 measures at Basement Theatre:

- The Government mandates may be gone, but our frenemy COVID (and a bunch of other nasty flus) are still hanging around. Head HERE for the information on what to do if you're feeling unwell and have a ticket.