Homicidal Pacifist — Dust Off Your Guillotines
Created and performed by Sameena Zehra
This sold-out Pōneke favourite returns for one night only at Hannah Playhouse!
DETAILS
Date: Saturday 13 September 2025
Time: 6:30pm
Where: Hannah Playhouse, 12 Cambridge Terrace
Duration: 60 minutes
Audience care and considerations: This show is accessible to blind and low vision audiences without the need for audio description. The venue is fully accessible. Sameena may occasionally raise her voice, but won’t shout. There is some direct audience interaction, but if you avert your gaze or shake your head, you will not be engaged directly. Contains adult themes, political and confrontational material, and coarse language.
Presented in partnership with the Hannah Playhouse.
The profits from this show are going to help Palestine via Aotearoa based charities, including Justice for Palestine Koha4Gaza and Gaza Water Relief.
Three haunted sock puppets leading government. Shit-for-brains liberals peddling ‘both sides’ fucknuggetry as the people march for peace and their governments pour gasoline on fire. And wt actual f is a ‘lesser’ evil? Sameena Zehra is back to explore whether it's time to dust off your guillotines (even for a pacifist, it’s definitely time) with dark comedy & delicious storytelling that will make you gasp and guffaw as you channel your inner homicidal pacifist to pen a culling list of your own.
Following a sold out season at NZ International Comedy Festival earlier this year, Sameena is bringing this show back for one night only during TAHI festival as part of TAHI Encores season.
“As a piece of political theatre, this is one of the more entertaining and potentially moving with a flair for the dramatic... a remarkable raconteur with amazing stories to tell…” - Nicholas Holm, The Post
CREATIVE TEAM
Performer / Writer: Sameena Zehra (she/her)
Sameena Zehra is an award-winning comedian, storyteller, actor, writer, director, and blues musician known for her razor-sharp political satire and dark, absurdist humour. An intersectional feminist and humanist, her work delves into the personal and political, blending wit with powerful social commentary. Originally from India and the UK, Sameena has performed internationally with the Royal Shakespeare Company and at the National Theatre, as well as touring her acclaimed solo shows to major festivals including Edinburgh Fringe, Melbourne International Comedy Festival, and NZ Fringe, where she won Outstanding Performer in 2017. Most recently, she was nominated for Outstanding Performer at the Wellington Theatre Awards for her critically acclaimed show Tea with Terrorists which toured festivals around the motu in 2022/23.