FREE THEATRE CHRISTCHURCH
  • ABOUT
    • A brief history...
    • Peter Falkenberg
    • Ensemble and Collaborators
    • Shirley Horrocks documentary
    • Jarry, Ubu, Pataphysics and Free Theatres
    • Training and Devising
    • Space and Design
    • Manifesto and Writings
    • Free Theatre Advisory Group
    • Te Puna Toi
    • Praise and Awards
  • UPCOMING
    • Erewhon: Over the Range
    • Digitising Performance
    • Endgame
    • Ubu Nights
    • Woyzeck
  • EDUCATION
    • Kidsfest and Holiday Programmes
    • Schools Workshops
    • Research, Publication and Symposia
    • Adult workshops
  • VENUE
  • ARCHIVE
    • Productions 1979 - present
    • Image Gallery 1979 - present
    • TV3 Clips
    • Selected Reviews
  • SUPPORT

Ubu Nights

Free Theatre is the vanguard of post-quake cool... If you’re after an antidote to the stream-lined nine to five, whisk yourself away to the Free Theatre’s next Ubu Night. It’s my new favourite thing about Friday.
Annabel Wilson, OnMagazine
Ubu, Free Theatre Christchurch's Patron Saint, would like to invite you to a series of Friday night events where performance is combined with hospitality in ways that he describes as Pataphysical.

Ubu Nights are quite unlike anything else - anywhere! Combining theatre, music, film and hospitality, audiences become part of an ever changing, ever exhilarating series of sensory environments where the unexpected is to be expected.

Free Theatre together with its hospitality partner The Rolling Om, collaborates with a diversity of artists to create spectacular experiences. 


Entry is $20 (door sales only). Performances from 6 - 10pm.

Notifications about upcoming Ubu Nights will be posted on our social media pages and via our mailing list.
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Previous Ubu Nights (click here)

Views and Interviews


Christchurch's Ubu Nights - the best thing about Fridays in the shaky city
Annabel Wilson

Free Theatre's George Parker
With James Dann on RDU, 30 September 2016

Ubu Night - confounding convention
A blog post by David Binstead, 25 September 2014

UBU Ubu Nights
With Rachel Morton on RDU, 3 September 2014
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Free Theatre books gym time
By Abbie Napier, The Press, 16 September 2014
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"What a bright ray of sunshine in an otherwise gloomy city! My friends and I thoroughly enjoyed the night and were immensely impressed by the artistry and richness of the whole experience. We kept saying afterwords how extraordinary to find this here!" 
Audience Member 
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These are fantastic experiences which expand the appreciation and understanding of theatre beyond some of the more traditional formats and engage an entirely different audience in theatre....elating, exhilarating and disorientating all at once"
​ Duncan Webb, MP for Central Christchurch
Principal Supporters of Ubu Nights:
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  • ABOUT
    • A brief history...
    • Peter Falkenberg
    • Ensemble and Collaborators
    • Shirley Horrocks documentary
    • Jarry, Ubu, Pataphysics and Free Theatres
    • Training and Devising
    • Space and Design
    • Manifesto and Writings
    • Free Theatre Advisory Group
    • Te Puna Toi
    • Praise and Awards
  • UPCOMING
    • Erewhon: Over the Range
    • Digitising Performance
    • Endgame
    • Ubu Nights
    • Woyzeck
  • EDUCATION
    • Kidsfest and Holiday Programmes
    • Schools Workshops
    • Research, Publication and Symposia
    • Adult workshops
  • VENUE
  • ARCHIVE
    • Productions 1979 - present
    • Image Gallery 1979 - present
    • TV3 Clips
    • Selected Reviews
  • SUPPORT