Tickets $20 at the door.
Doors open 7pm for a slide show of local history. Show starts from 7.30pm
This promises to be an enjoyable wander through our past history. It is a fascinating musical concept, based on actual people and events that occurred in our colonial history.
Led by one of Auckland’s most inimitable actors, Peter Elliott, “The Unsung Heroes” present an evening of folk song, renditions of archival newspaper clippings, photo images from the 1850s to early 1900s, and a beautifully read version of Rudyard Kipling’s poem – the Explorer that was written during the poet’s travel time in New Zealand in 1898.
They tell stories from New Zealand’s settler past in finely crafted theatre, music, and song, with old newspaper articles & poems that deftly introduce each song’s central character.
Included is a photographic slideshow of historic images as accompaniment, with gorgeously evocative music and words, and Elliott’s old-style radio diction, sharp timing, and dry humour all predictive of ways we have come to see ourselves.