Thu, 10 Oct
|War Memorial Theatre
The Savage Coloniser Show | Te Tairawhiti Arts Festival
A theatrical interpretation of acclaimed writer, Tusiata Avia's The Savage Coloniser Book, for which she became the first female Pasifika poet to take out the Ockham Award for poetry.
Time & Location
10 Oct 2024, 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
War Memorial Theatre, 159 Bright Street, Gisborne 4010, New Zealand
About the event
Following on from the internationally triumphant production of Tusiata Avia’s Wild Dogs Under My Skirt, FCC theatre company brings to ferocious life the acclaimed writer’s The Savage Coloniser Book, for which she became the first female Pasifika poet to take out the Ockham Award for poetry.
With packed houses in previous seasons across Aotearoa, under the artful direction of the formidable Anapela Polata’ivao, Avia’s unapologetic examination of race and racism is full of bold humour, courage and lacerating truths. Red-sequinned dusky maidens train their sights on James Cook, Samoan school girls play an innocent game of patty-cake as they describe the atrocities on Nauru, and a Tour Guide offers instructions on how to be in a room full of white people.
Fierce, furious and fabulously unforgiving this is theatre that is as provocative as it is necessary – and a red – hot ticket you should fear missing out on
Purchase tickets here and find more info about Te Tairāwhiti Arts Festival here.