Echoing the Ghosts

Echoing the Ghosts

• 7 pm 18 September @ Corban's Estate Chapel, 426 Great North Road, Henderson
• 7 pm 25 September @ Galatos, 17 Galatos St, Auckland City - with The Moving Image Centre's own AV Poetry experiment to open.

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.

Solo performances resurrect such characters as The Wright Brothers, Kerouac, Billie Holiday, Hans Christian Anderson, and Lewis Carroll. Three-person 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.

With a cast comprised of slam winners, musical-poets and the odd Poetry Idol champion plus a year spent workshopping since The Literatti's Def Jam collaboration, Echoing The Ghosts is going to be hot!