Compassionate, masterful and incredibly relevant, The Events was the surprise hit of the 2013 Edinburgh Festival.
Acclaimed stage actress Claire Dougan leads this production in her Centrepoint debut, joined by Jatinder Singh and a host of community choirs from throughout the lower North Island in a mesmerising fusion of theatre and music.
The Events will be performed at Centrepoint Theatre between July 29 and August 20. The Wanganui Community Choir will be part of the performance on August 18.
Scottish playwright David Greig will be best known to audiences for Midsummer (A Plays with Songs), which was staged at Centrepoint in 2015. For The Events, he explores darker themes with a similar focus on music, asking how far forgiveness will stretch in the wake of evil.
Award-winning director Lara Macgregor, a PNGHS alumni and the former artistic director of Dunedin's Fortune Theatre, heads the creative team.