Strange Ancestors is a music theatre show written and performed by Floral Clocks (Richard von Sturmer, Gabriel White, Robert Sly and Kingsley Spargo). Through songs and stories, the show explores the idiosyncratic side of historical personalities like Jean Cocteau, Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud, Clarice Lispector, Mademoiselle de la Force, Étienne de Silhouette and Lindsay Kemp. Cambrian organisms, dancing bears, and eels also feature.
Strange Ancestors is an imaginary reunion, a genealogy of the narrator’s psyche, an outpouring of joy! Travel to familiar-unfamiliar places, minds and times, and leave energised with music, touched by stories and surprised by the hope that comes from meeting wonderful strangers.
Writer, narrator: Richard von Sturmer Singer, composer: Gabriel White Piano, co-arranger: Robert Sly Percussion, additional instruments: Kingsley Spargo
Life as the colonised and coloniser. Īhaka Martyn leads the audience on a journey from total confusion to partial understanding - weaving together elements of stand-up comedy, waiata, and theatrical performance.
Ngāti Whātua takes you on a journey of broken friendships, sworn enemies, love, war, annihilation and hope. 200 years since the battle of annihilation, our spirit lives on.
By Paula Vogel.
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An absurd, funny, and unflinching exploration of family, identity, and the ties that both bind and break us – a modern American classic.
