Dunedin's Fortune Theatre is hoping to play host to a civil union, and are looking for a happy same-sex couple to help them out. Fortune Theatre marketing manager Lisa Scott says the real-life wedding will be a nice tie-in for their new production, The Paradise Package which opens later this month. "Please tell people, if they're planning to have a civil union, we will do all the bells and whistles, just come and do it with us," she says. Written and directed by Geraldine Brophy, The Paradise Package centres around a male couple who have escaped to an island resort for a commitment ceremony. "The Fortune Theatre is a converted church, and there's delicious ironies in all of that," says Brophy. "So at the moment we're advertising for a couple who would like a civil union on the stage, post the show." The couple would not be required to have their ceremony in front of the audience. "We thought we'd either do it on a Monday when we don't have a show, or on a Sunday after the show," Scott explains. "The theatre seats 227, so we'd organise it so we'd help you with your fru-frus and anything else, then you just invite friends and whanau and have it on the stage, with the set, which will look fantastic." The Paradise Package will run from 24 March – 13 April. Interested couples can contact Lisa Scott at the Fortune Theatre on (03) 477 1695 or via email marketing@fortunetheatre.co.nz NOTE: Our originally published item on 10 March incorrectly stated that there had been no same-sex civil unions yet performed in Dunedin. We apologise for our error.