Press Release – Tour-Makers Presented by Tour-Makers in partnership with Movement of the Human MEREMERE Performer and creator Rodney Bell (Ngti Maniapoto) Director Malia Johnston The show that has received numerous standing ovations, glittering reviews and a fistful …
Presented by Tour-Makers in partnership with Movement of the Human
MEREMERE
Director Malia Johnston
The show that has received numerous standing ovations, glittering reviews and a fistful of awards is back on tour as
Meremere tours to Auckland, Bannockburn, Wanaka, Invercargill, New Plymouth, Tauranga, Hamilton and Whangarei this April and May.
WATCH THE TRAILER HERE: MEREMERE
“This autobiographical, multi-disciplinary and life-affirming survival story drew the cheering opening night audience to its feet.” – Dominion Post
MEREMERE
Director Malia
Johnston
The show that has received numerous standing
ovations, glittering reviews and a fistful of awards is back
on tour as
Meremere tours to
Auckland, Bannockburn, Wanaka, Invercargill, New Plymouth,
Tauranga, Hamilton and Whangarei this April and
May.
WATCH THE TRAILER HERE: MEREMERE
“This
autobiographical, multi-disciplinary and life-affirming
survival story drew the cheering opening night audience to
its feet.” – Dominion
Post
Meremere is a powerful and engaging
autobiographical work in response to
Rodney
Bell’s extraordinary life, and the series of
events that have been incredibly unique for one individual
to experience in a lifetime. This multimedia performance
Opinion
In New Zealand classical music, the writers of words are routinely hidden from view. If they care so little, why not settle for humming the melody, asks NZ’s inaugural poet laureate, Bill Manhire.
I watched the Whānau London Voices concert the other day, and admired the initiative and spirit of the venture, as well as the show itself; I even made a donation! But I was troubled by one of the assumptions about the relationship between music and words. Somehow the authorship of the words didn’t matter much at all. This isn’t an assumption specific to the Whānau project, but one that seems to inform the wider world of classical music.