Award Winning Festival Favourite Returns to Auckland!
Nightsong (formerly Theatre Stampede and Nightsong Productions) presents TE PŌ
Written by Carl Bland. Directed by Ben Crowder.
Starring Rawiri Paratene, Carl Bland, Andrew Grainger and Max Cumberpatch.
In 2016, Nightsong performed their debut season of Te Pō as part of the Auckland Arts Festival. It received rave reviews and stole hearts and minds of audiences with its mesmerizing portrayal of love lost and found
again. Not only that, this highly original work presents Bruce Mason like you have never seen him before. Te Pō returns to Auckland and plays at Q Theatre October 25 – November 4.
Te Pō is the story of a detective, a priest and a blind man brought together to look for missing playwright Bruce
Mason... “Detective Inspector Brett is a man who is constantly searching for the truth but cannot see the truth about himself.
Reverent Sedgwick is a man of belief who doesn't know what to believe. Werihe is blind and he sees more than anyone
else.”
Genius theatre-makers Ben Crowder and Carl Bland, co-creators of Te Pō, have merged their respective theatre companies together to form Nightsong. This production company unites the careers and experience of two of New Zealand theatre’s most experienced and
innovative practitioners. As such, this remounted production will be the first under their new company.
Love songs sung in a Māori showband style by the award winning Rawiri Paratene, ONZM (Whale Ride, The Insatiable Moon), punctuate the surreal
happenings in this show, as does a seagull with a secret, chairs that don’t stay where you left them, and a giant fish.
This show delicately unfolds and reveals its greatest strength is in its simplicity; this show is about death and love.
The two opposites that pull us apart and put us back together. Don’t miss your chance to connect with the beautiful
journey at the heart of Te Pō, losing someone you have loved and finding them again.
“The danger of falling in love is that one day, it’s going to end”
Nightsong are renowned for making work that gently side steps reality and invites us into a world where things are a bit
more magical than we remember:
“That’s great theatre, right there. When the impossible works, right in front of you, and it clambers right into your
heart.” - Simon Wilson, Metro
“This is imaginative and ambitious theatre, unafraid to ask the big questions, probing the nature of existence and
grief. Reminding us that life can be funny and sad, meaningless and significant, universal and personal, all at the same
time.” - Nathan Joe, Theatre Scenes
TE Pō plays:
Rangatira, Q Theatre, 305 Queen Street
25th October – 4th November (Tuesday – Saturday) at 7.30pm
Tickets $15-$60*
For more information and to book visit www.qtheatre.co.nz
(*booking fees may apply)
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