Bats Theatre

Located in the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes building at 1 Kent Terrace, BATS Theatre is a intimate venue with a long and varied life, starting originally in the 1930s as The Savage Club, a dance hall and venue for amateur theatre.

BATS theatre is a presenter venue staging an annual programme to its audience. Programmes aim to develop live performance practitioners, audiences and new theatre works from Aotearoa New Zealand, presenting the best of cutting edge and experimental theatre from New Zealand and overseas. Many of these works go on tour and become national hits and even if the shows don't continue on, the actors, writers, producers, designers and directors do.