Pashton is a hot pink juggernaut of cleavage, comedy and questionable behaviour. I'm a dirty girl and proud.
I have two Billy T nominations, four Best Female Comedienne nominations, three Adelaide Fringe People’s Choice nomination and one Honourable Mention in the Best Comedy Category at the Wellington Fringe Festival.
One day I hope to win something.
I have performed all over New Zealand and in Canada, USA, Singapore, London, Australia, Germany and Scotland. In 2006, I represented New Zealand in The World Cup of Theatresports in Germany and also Australasia in a Performance Poetry Slam Tournament Tour of the UK. I’m a regular on Radio NZ National, am a cast member of TV3’s new comedy 7 Days and have been whoring my Saucy Show about the history of the Sex Industry Hot Pink Bits since 2007. Stay tuned for it hitting a town near you. It’s sold out from Edmonton to Edinburgh to Adelaide to Gore, you can’t miss that!
"Can’t fail on a stage in the English Speaking World" edinburghguide.com 2004
"..astonishingly good"
Adelaide Advertiser 2006 "...hysterical from beginning to end...a wild ride." Rip It Up - Adelaide 2006 "....a potty-mouthed Pam Ayres." Metro - Edinburgh 2005 "...a perfect night out for anyone who loves women." Three Weeks - Edinburgh 2006
Coming up are seasons in Wanganui, Hastings, Palmerston North and Wellington. There’s a huge regional tour of 2010 in the pipeline PLUS taking our improvised Jane Austen Musical to the Adelaide Fringe and myself to the Glastonbury Poetry Tent. (Though I confess am petrified of the toilets there.)
If you listen closely to Power Rangers you can also hear my voice masquerading as various hideous beasts and I have performed in numerous theatre, TV and radio ventures. Some of these highlights include playing a gynaecologist, a children’s fairy, a Russian bitch who shrinks Rangers into perfume bottles and a lesbian puppet called Ginny.
I am available to hire for all manner of reasons and charge by the hour with a no kissing policy.
I'm the bastard love child of Ruby Wax, Pam Ayres and Cosmo Magazine
Members
Gorgeous new pics by the lovely Aasta Otnes, http://www.myspace.com/solar_storm
TV Shows
Power Rangers - Frigia, Fragra
Shortland St - Dr Margaret Cole Talent - Cynthia Breakfast TV - Social Commentary ScotchBrite Fairy Godmother (Shame) TV3 7 Days Cast Member
Films
From Where I'm Standing - Short Film, Role: Mother Drop Dead Gorgeous - Short Film, Role: Lead
Penny Ashton's Interests
General
NZ takes on the might of Germany and actually wins.....well in Theatresports anyway
"Hey, pull my finger"
Rutting the flag
The Americans are coming
So many sexy men so little time....a lucky punter strips in HOT PINK BITS!
Hot Pink Bits is coming to Wanganui, Hastings, Palmerston North and Wellington. You lucky devils.
BOOK NOW to avoid missing
out on the Global Smash Hit!!!
Hot Pink Bits Accolades:
Totally Sold-Out Run Wellington Fringe 2007 and Best Comedy Nomination/ Highest Selling Show World Busker’s Festival 2007 / Best of Fest Winnipeg 2007 / 2nd Highest Grossing Show Saskatoon Fringe 2007 / Totally Sold Out Edmonton Run 2007/ Totally Sold Out Hamilton, Gore and Wanaka Tours AND Best Ever Selling Regional Tour in the Taranaki Festival of the Arts 2009.
ADELAIDE THEATRE GUIDE
HOT PINK BITS
Review by Brian Godfrey
“Hot Pink Bits Rides Again” is Adult’s Only comedy at its very, very best. This show is hot, horny and hilarious. It is the funniest show this reviewer has seen so far in the Fringe. It will be very hard to top.
New Zealand’s greatest invention, Penny Ashton, talks, sings and dances her audience through a burlesque-style guided tour of the world’s sex industry. All the old favourites are there: porn, discipline, bondage, fetishism, flagellation and more that you probably have never heard of.
Ashton has fun with us and makes sure we have fun with her. She is a ‘mistress’ at working the audience. There are games to be played, porn movies to be made and strippers to be wolf-whistled at.
Her versions of well known songs are fantastic. “My Favourite Things” from “Sound of Music” will never be the same again – guaranteed.
It needs to be noted that Miss Ashton has done her homework. The show has been very well researched and her knowledge of the local scene is quite impressive.
If you are eighteen and over (this show has been rated 18+), want a good laugh and not in anyway prudish; this is the show for you.
Rating: 5 Stars
Hot Pink Bits
Janet French, The Saskatoon StarPhoenix
4 1/2 Stars
If Penny Ashton taught sex education in school, teen pregnancies would plummet. Rapt with unblinking attention to the shimmying actor busting out of her corset with energy, kids would roll on condoms like pros and STIs would become extinct.
In the spirit of open-mindedness and playful fun, Ashton's Hot Pink Bits is an informative cabaret of sex statistics, filthy follies and yanking people out of the audience for a few moments of blushing.
Once she tears off her pink lab coat, Dr. Love's lesson covers bondage and discipline, fetishes, prostitution and pornography, including a game show-style quiz of the audience's dirty movie knowledge, with bedroom-appropriate prizes. And she does it all with her ironically posh New Zealand accent.
Her selection of cover songs, re-written with salacious lyrics, include, It's Raining on Men, a tune for people who find urination a turn-on, and a naughty guest puppet singing about some of its Favourite Things.
The writing snaps like a garter belt strap, and Ashton's energy never gets flaccid.
Even during Saturday's massive technical snafu -- technicians were sent scrambling when the lights wouldn't come on and the introductory music wouldn't stop blaring -- Ashton carried on like a pro for minutes in the dark as audience members shone flashlights on her. How appropriate that something so sultry began in the dark.
This show isn't merely laugh-out-loud funny. You will howl, scream, moan and possibly make animal noises before the hour of pleasure is over.
THEATREVIEW
by Sian Robertson, 2007
Madame Penny welcomes her darling audience into her bawdy, velvety playground to sample delightful vaudevillian songs and fascinating sex facts. It's a history of the sex industry, embellished with theatrical interludes, obscure facts and figures, and audience participation including a pop quiz and a scripted performance from a well known adult film - but don't be afraid, Mistress Hot Pink will never put you on the spot (unless you want her to).
Tackling the entire history of the global sex trade - from the occupational hazards of phone sex to famous porn stars through the ages; from the habits of 5th century empresses to a bit of local history - is such a lot to cram into an hour of comedy she sometimes seems a bit rushed. However, her obvious appetite for the subject matter with all it's thrills and spills, delights and indignities, makes for a sumptuous and carefully selected buffet of juicy material.
This is not just stand-up comedy: Ashton's show is a finely crafted piece of comedic theatre, visually tasty, as intriguing as it is funny, taking us on a unreserved inspection of the evolution of prostitution, the advent of the adult film, the takeover of video and then the internet, etc. Encased in a fabulous pink corset her remarkable lungs hit us with a raunchy, resonant voice and several naughty versions of a few popular songs, such as 'A Few of My Favourite Things'...
It's just really refreshing to see someone having such a ball broaching every imaginable angle of sex-for-sale without a hint of shyness, or resorting crass gags. Obviously the audience weren't that squeamish or they wouldn't have come to an act called Hot Pink Bits, but anyone that was a bit timid at first was put at ease by the end of the show by Ashton's warm, enveloping, gutsy and fun manner.
Despite touching on some of the political aspects of the sex trade, including pointing out a few absurd laws and the obvious gender issues, it's never an excuse for a rant. Our mischievous Madame keeps the tone light, celebratory, and witty, delving into the odder side of our preferences and tendencies with a playful and well-researched abandon.
If you're at all interested in openly and humorously exploring the subject of sex (and let's face it, who isn't a little bit curious about other people's pink bits and what they do with them?) you'll love this show.
My only complaint: the seats in the Classic Studio are a pain in the buttocks so you might want to take a cushion (unless of course, you like a bit of pain with your pleasure). I couldn't help wondering if anyone noticed the Hot Pink Bits audience limping out gingerly, looking like they got a lot more than their money's worth!?
A new collection of Comic/Nonsense Verse, For Children, called, ‘Please Do Not Encourage This Nonsense by Purchasing this Book: Poems By Paul H. Tubb’, is available for purchasing.
23 Poems Not about Football, 11 that are about Football and 5 limericks. Paul H. Tubb has put these together, with some illustrations, into a handy book form so that they can be read at anyone’s leisure. Funny Rhyming poems that will delight Children of all ages. Poems about subjects such as Strange Christmas’s, Tone Deaf Dentists and the worlds worst stuntman among others. To learn more, please click on the link below.
A new collection of Comic/Nonsense Verse, For Children, called, ‘Please Do Not Encourage This Nonsense by Purchasing this Book: Poems By Paul H. Tubb’, is available for purchasing.
23 Poems Not about Football, 11 that are about Football and 5 limericks. Paul H. Tubb has put these together, with some illustrations, into a handy book form so that they can be read at anyone’s leisure. Funny Rhyming poems that will delight Children of all ages. Poems about subjects such as Strange Christmas’s, Tone Deaf Dentists and the worlds worst stuntman among others. To learn more, please click on the link below.
After you've finished here, you may like to hear this poem sung on myspace...
Poem 2 of 230, WalkaboutsVerse (please see my blog): WALKABOUT WITH MY PEN
Once drove an old sedan, up north, From a place in Sydney to Cairns; Then to Kuranda I went forth, By train, to look without set plans.
I browsed through the trendy market, With fresh fruits of tropical kind; Walked to the creek through lush thicket - Nature’s hand giving peace of mind.
I dined in a scenic cafe; Then, outside, as I wrote for yen, Some passing Kooris called-out: “Hey, You go walkabout with your pen.”
Request or question, I don’t know - Assured voices, elderly men. That’s now several years ago, And I’ve seen the world - with my pen.
Showin my people some love. Do ya thing, there's no rest for the blessed!!! I hope you have everything ready for next year, it's gonna be big for everyone. 1ove
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