70 mins, no interval
Fierce, furious, fabulously unforgiving: from its premiere at Auckland Arts Festival comes the celebrated stage adaptation of Tusiata Avia’s unapologetic poetry collection.
Inspired by the poems of celebrated New Zealand Samoan poet, Tusiata Avia who became the first female Pasifika poet to win the Ockham Book Award for poetry for The Savage Coloniser Book, this show presents a sometimes blistering, sometimes amusing, but always clear-eyed examination of colonisation and the continually thorny subjects of race in Aotearoa.
Following on from the triumphant, internationally acclaimed Wild Dogs Under My Skirt, and again under the artful direction of Anapela Polata’ivao, Avia’s examination of race and racism, the colonised and the coloniser, is full of bold humour, courage and lacerating truths.
Not to be missed!
“a production of unparalleled excellence” - Spinoff
“honest, disruptive, and empowering” - Theatrescenes
ACCESSIBILITY PROGRAMME
The Friday 20th of October performance of The Savage Coloniser Show will be New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) Interpreted. This performance will no longer be Audio Described.
For more information please email [email protected] or call 027 241 4599.
To book reserved seats close to the front of the stage for a good view of the interpreter/performance, call the Theatre Royal or NCMA Box Office on 03 548 9477, or email [email protected].
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Age 14+. The content of this show touches on important but difficult historical societal themes such as colonisation, slavery, genocide, sexual abuse and racism. Contains strong language.
Supported by: Innit Creative
