Songs of love and loss, wandering souls and the landscapes of home kept a large audience spellbound in last night’s fabulous performance by Jenny Mitchell and band at Knox Church.
As we arrive at Te Whare O Rukutia, each of us is given a piece of chalk and asked to write our name at the edge of the performance space, which is a large rectangular blackboard.
It was not quite improvised, but performers at one Dunedin Arts Festival performance had only an hour to perfect their moves before taking them to a very public stage.
Like exotic fish in a tank, three young boys are ripped from their homes and become powerless playthings for unscrupulous adults, who profess to have their best interests at heart.