

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: House of Ick | Basement Theatre
- **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 24 Mar, 2026 at 10:30 am – Tue, 24 Mar, 2026 at 11:30 am
- **Event Description**: 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 &amp; Minge (Nina Hogg &amp; 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.
WINNER of the NZ Comedy Guild Award for Comic Originality
NOMINEE for Best Show at the Wellington Comedy Awards 2026

“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 &amp; 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 &amp; 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
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/auckland/house-of-ick-|-basement-theatre/200029555509140
- **Event Categories**: art, comedy, theatre, entertainment, performances, festivals, literary-art, live-music
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 11

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://basementtheatre.co.nz/blogs/whats-on/house-of-ick?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=auckland-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Auckland
- **state**: AU
- **country**: New Zealand
- **location**: Basement Theatre
- **lat**: -36.853666445607
- **long**: 174.76286619902
- **full address**: Basement Theatre, Lower Greys Ave,Auckland, New Zealand

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: Ginge & Minge (https://allevents.in/org/ginge-and-minge/20000508)

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  - **Image URL**: https://dyn-image.allevents.in/generate-image?v=4&title=House+of+Ick+%7C+Basement+Theatre&date=24+Mar

## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Tue, 24 Mar, 2026 at 10:30 am
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Basement Theatre, Lower Greys Ave,Auckland, New Zealand
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Ginge & Minge
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, comedy, theatre, entertainment, performances, festivals, literary-art, live-music
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about House of Ick | Basement Theatre ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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