'The Savage Coloniser Show' - Talanoa with Writer Tusiata Avia

Fierce, furious, and fabulously unforgiving, award-winning writer Tusiata Avia's play 'Savage Coloniser' is hitting stages around Aotearoa and the world in 2024.

Red-sequinned dusky maidens train their sights on James Cook, Samoan school girls play an innocent game of patty-cake as they describe the atrocities on Nauru, and a Tour Guide offers instructions on how to be in a room full of white people.

Following on from the internationally triumphant production of her play 'Wild Dogs Under My Skirt', FCC theatre company brings to ferocious life the acclaimed writer’s The Savage Coloniser Book, for which she became the first female Pasifika poet to take out the Ockham Award for poetry.

Under the direction of award-winning Samoan director Anapela Polata’ivao, Avia’s unapologetic examination of race and racism is full of bold humour, courage, and lacerating truths: The Savage Coloniser Show is theatre that is as provocative as it is necessary

“With characteristic savage and stylish wit, Avia holds the word-blade to our necks and presses with a relentless grace. At the end, you’ll feel your pulse anew.”
- Selina Tusitala Marsh, NZ Poet Laureate

Tickets for the Wellington season of the show as part of the Aotearoa Festival of the Arts 2024 are available here.