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How far would you go to please your family?
In 1902, the SS Ventnor sank in the Hokianga harbour with the bones of 499 Chinese miners bound for ancestral graves in Canton. A century later Ben, a young man, arrives in the Far North to try to find some link with his past. He finds more than just restless spirits…….
Featuring live music and an original score, performed by musicians from Waikato traditional Chinese orchestra New Nature, and joined by some local musicians.
At The Globe Tuesday 30 and Wednesday 31st March 2010 7.00 p.m.
Matinee 12:30pm Wednesday 31st March
Tickets $22 full/$18 concession, reservations available at globe theatre, 06 357 9740 or click here to reserve online
EFTPOS is available for door sales on the night.
www.bonefeeder.weebly.com
| Sponsored by ASIA NZ Foundation |
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and by the
Chinese Poll Tax heritage trust
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Renée Liang
Renée Liang is a poet, playwright and fiction writer. She is a second-generation Chinese New Zealander; her parents immigrated to Auckland from Hong Kong in the 1970s. The Bone Feeder is her second full-length play. In 2009 Lantern was performed to sell-out audiences in Wellington and Auckland. A number of Renee’s short plays have recently been produced for regional arts festivals, and she regularly takes the stage herself as a performance poet. Renee’s writing has been published in the New Zealand Listener, JAAM, Blackmail Press, Tongue in your Ear, Sidestream and Magazine. She reviews theatre and arts for The Lumière Reader, blogs for The Big Idea and helps run the arts collaboration project Metonymy. Renee is also a practising paediatrician.
Andrew Corrêa
Andrew is a composer, arranger and jazz musician based in West Auckland. He teaches a range of instruments at primary schools around Auckland. He regularly works as an arranger for concert bands and has also scored for films. The Bone Feeder is his first theatre collaboration. Correa was the recipient of the Llewelyn Jones' Prize for Piano Composition (2008) and The University of Auckland's First Prize in Composition (2008).
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