The Savage Coloniser Show | Tauranga Arts Festival 2023

Fierce, furious and fabulously unforgiving, this is a theatrical blockbuster from the team behind the internationally acclaimed Wild Dogs Under My Skirt.

A Samoan woman explains how to be in a room full of white people. A group of dusky maidens imagine committing acts of violence against James Cook. A voluptuous Pasifika powerhouse refuses to be shamed into silence by the surgeon who casually attacks her for her size.

New Zealand-Samoan poet Tusiata Avia became the first female Pasifika poet to win the Ockham Book Award for Poetry in 2021 with her clear-eyed examination of colonisation and the continually thorny subject of race in Aotearoa. Aligned with the visionary direction of Anapela Polata’ivao, expect a pulse-quickening encounter with words and images you won’t easily forget.

A sold-out smash hit at this year’s Auckland Arts Festival. Don’t miss it.

"Honest, disruptive and empowering" - Theatrescenes"

"A production of unparalleled excellence" - The Spinoff

Originally Commissioned By Auckland Arts Festival

Presented as part of the 2023 Tauranga Arts Festival, on from 19 - 29 October.