The Tauranga Arts Festival has secured globetrotting chef Peter Gordon for this year's event. Photo/The Sugar Club
Tauranga Arts Festival is celebrating its second Escape! festival on June 3-6 with an early-bird ticket offer for two of the shows.
Sales will open on April 19 for an hour with renowned chef Peter Gordon and a one-man Shakespeare tribute starring Michael Hurst.
"We are breaking with tradition by
putting tickets on general sale before the programme launch but we know these performances will create a buzz," says Escape! director Claire Mabey. Securing Gordon, whose new book Savour is published on May 2, is a coup, Mabey says. "He said he'd be happy to come to Tauranga if we had a festival on while he was in the country but he is such a globetrotter we thought it might never happen."
The Whanganui-born chef owns two restaurants each in London and Auckland and appears regularly on television around the world, as well as being a consultant to Air New Zealand.
No Holds Bard reweaves some of Shakespeare's words and characters into a new story.
Hurst's performance has won praise for its physicality, passion and humour. A matinee will end with a Q&A session with Hurst: student tickets to this are $10.
