Rats In The Gutter Sam Te Kani & Johanna Cosgrove

It’s here—the rats live! Effortlessly eclipsing The Eras Tour as the season's most sought-after ticketed event, Cosgrove and Te Kani set Auckland’s Q Theatre alight with blistering charismas, hard hitting takes on social issues, and a tasteful in memorium for celebrity human trafficking victim Madeline McCann. Utterly unmissable.
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the rats try and have a critical conversation about some frankly profound theatre they recently saw together, and are thwarted by a bug in the system. Ironically, said play had themes of failure in art, in life, and the vertigo and grief of ambition giving way to defeat. We like when a theme comes full circle.
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And so the Oscars are here. It’s difficult to get excited about cinematic glories against the backdrop of genocide and ambient psychological warfare with warmongering zionists. But we try.
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Body dysmorphia is as strong a theme this week as it’s ever been. Dune Part Two looms like a mammoth cultural moment. Fifties housewives dropping tapeworms into their own eyes as a desperate form of weight management seem smarter than most in light of Ozempic and traditional anorexias. Fake twink Timothee Chalamet and his slender boy-wife Zendaya do nothing for the rats' self image.
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In a fugue state of rap beefs and genocides the rats try and cohere a week of internet, in brief. Notably featuring kosher cocktails, Hamas-friendly aperitifs, the American Mong, gluten-free blood flour, and screaming.
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This week, the rats invite comedian and fellow carnie/attention whore Eli Matthewson in. They exchange stories of willful self exposures, humiliations, and the dangers of not having a side hustle outside improv comedy (a slippery slope tbh).



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