Echoing the Ghosts
Brought to you by The Literatti, Echoing The Ghosts confronts characters that have shaped our world/view, dresses them in poetry and makes them thrash it out to music from Nine Inch Nails instrumental albums Ghosts I & II.
With a cast comprised of slam winners, musical-poets and the odd Poetry Idol champion plus a year spent workshopping since their Def Jam collaboration, Echoing The Ghosts is set reach new frontiers in Auckland performance poetry.
Solo performances confront such characters as The Wright Brothers, Kerouac, Billy Holiday, Hans Christian Anderson, and Lewis Carroll. Three-voice performances play with Te Whiti & Marilyn Monroe, and poems in two voices discuss Huxley, Friedman, Rosa Parks, Da Vinci and Jung. We go partying with Sigmund Freud, cooking with Kate Sheppard, to Family Planning with Ettie Rout and we have coffee with the famous artists of renaissance Florence. There is the melding of song and spoken word, the layering of multiple voices and as always, a constantly changing ride.
7 pm 18 August @ Corbans Estate Chapel,
426 Great North Road, Henderson
7 pm 25 August @ Galatos,
17 Galatos St, Auckland City
- with The Moving Image Centres own A/V-poetry experiment.
Tickets $15 / $20 on the door.
Email theliteratti@gmail.com to reserve tickets.
