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Feb 12,13: BANANA JOLIE – CONFESSIONS OF AN AEROBICS INSTRUCTOR

CONFESSIONS OF AN AEROBICS INSTRUCTOR 

At Raglan Old School Arts Centre, upstairs in the Whare Tapere, 5 Stewart Street, Raglan 3225

BOOK TICKETS: https://www.trybooking.com/nz/events/landing?eid=6251& 

Saturday 12th Feb: 7.30pm 

Sunday 13th Feb: 5.30pm 

Show is best for audiences aged 15 and over. 

Just when your New Year’s resolutions might be fading away, the answer to all your motivational woes is here. And she’s telling us we don’t need thigh gaps, we don’t need to tone up, we need the truth. 

After two sell out shows at Old School Arts Centre last January with show SPIRITUAL BANANA, Joana Simmons, aka Banana Jolie is back with another epic one woman show. By popular demand, cardio comedy cabaret show CONFESSIONS OF AN AEROBICS INSTRUCTOR is here on 12 and 13 February! Make sure you book – the last show sold out 2 days before it opened! 

BANANA JOLIE – CONFESSIONS OF AN AEROBICS INSTRUCTOR

Confessions of an Aerobics Instructor is a high-octane workout of belly laughs. Joana Simmons, who plays her aerobics alter-ego, Joy, is airing her work-out and work stories as an aerobics instructor and exercising all sorts of demons from body image to active wear; gym, Jim and GIN.  This show has been her answer to navigating body image, diet culture, exercise addiction and perceptions of strength. It is “both larger than life and deeply human” (The Upside News) 

Featuring original songs, high-powered pop and rock staples and full power aerobics, it is “comedy and theatre at its absolute best.”- The Upside (SA).

 Banana Jolie has performed in a variety of genres and festivals including; Splore Festival (LET’S TALK ABOUT PEELINGS), NZ Fringe Festival (SPIRITUAL BANANA), Adelaide Fringe Festival (SA), Splendour in the Grass Festival (NSW), Melbourne International Comedy Festival (VIC), Melbourne Fringe Festival (Putting the G’Day in Cabaret), The Village Festival, and Falls Festival (VIC, NSW, TAS). She was a semi-finalist with “Miss Friby (and the Fribbles)” on Australia’s Got Talent. 

Prepare to feel the deep burn in your thighs and get a solid abdominal workout of laughs when sweaty secrets are laid out to dry in CONFESSIONS OF AN AEROBICS INSTRUCTOR. The weight is over. 

BOOK TICKETS: https://www.trybooking.com/nz/events/landing?eid=6251& 

Saturday 12th Feb: 7.30pm 

Sunday 13th Feb: 5.30pm 

Show is best for audiences aged 15 and over. 

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