16/10/2026
Pop the bubbles, dust off the tinsel and tell your boss you’ve got a thing on – Basement’s Silly Season is back for its third year!
Nine shows across five nights, Tuesday 8 to Saturday 12 December. One week where Greys Ave becomes the best end-of-year do in Tāmaki Makaurau, no Secret Santa required. Basey regulars and brand new faces are bringing their festive best to both stages, and the week is stacked.
Leading the season is A Master of None: Brown Fala from Lila Crichton and The Woven Collective, our Pacific Collective in Residence. Told through the eyes of a small child, with animation, shadow play, song and dance, it’s a love letter to Pasifika women, q***r whānau and our young people – an invitation to lay down the mat, gather, and talk about the things families too often keep quiet. The Woven Collective are also curating our opening night party, so you can kick off the week with them.
Under the tree this Silly Season:
🌺 A love letter to Pasifika women, q***r whānau and our youth
🐂 A completely made-up Christmas musical from the Bull Rush herd
🎬 One of your fave Christmas flicks, performed entirely from memory
🏳️🌈 Tāmaki’s best q***r poets on all their silly season feelings
🍽️ A Yuletide dinner party with Bailey Poching and his funniest friends
🥊 Four writers, two musicians, 48 hours and one whānau Christmas lunch
🐟 A fully improvised family drama, with at least one scream about fish
🎲 Forty characters and a single D20 die
🎤 Courtney and Janaye, back to tell you everything about their year
Fish and family secrets, carols and comedy, and a love letter on the mat – that’s Silly Season at Basey.
Tickets on sale now – hit the link in our bio.
Grab your mates, grab your aunties, grab whoever’s still at their desk on the 12th – we’ll save you a seat xx
