Songs for Nobodies show playing in Whangārei and Kerikeri

Ali Harper in Songs for Nobodies which is being performed in Northland. Photo / Danielle Colvin Photography

Award winning New Zealand entertainer Ali Harper is bringing the highly-acclaimed production Songs for Nobodies to Northland.

Songs for Nobodies, written by Joanna Murray-Smith, features five life-changing encounters between legendary divas and the everyday women whose lives they touched. It is a one woman show with Harper playing all characters.

Harper, who was awarded Best Actress at the United Solo Festival in 2014 with another of Murray-Smith's one-woman plays Bombshells, said in her 25 year career there are only a handful of scripts that have come her way and felt like a gift, and Songs for Nobodies is one of them.

"I love the way the show poignantly explores the uncanny influence that chance encounters, both directly and indirectly, play in our lives," she said.

The show includes songs such as Patsy Cline's Crazy, Judy Garland's Come Rain or Come Shine and Edith Piaf's Non, and Je Ne Regrette Rien.

There are also well-known songs from Billie Holiday and Maria Callas which are structured into the play delivering an incredible emotional pay-off.

Director Ross Gumbley said it has been exciting to tour The Court Theatre production with Harper.

"Seeing the reaction that this exceptional play, performed by a truly gifted performer, draws from an audience is fantastic."

Songs for Nobodies will be at Forum North's Capitaine Bougainville Theatre on Monday from 7.30pm and at Kerikeri's Turner Centre on Tuesday from 7.30pm.

Harper said she was looking forward to bringing the show to Northland.

"Songs for Nobodies boasts a stunning script which perfectly marries the incredible power of music. It will reach out and grab your heart. It will hit you on a comedic level, an intellectual level and on a spiritual level," she said.

Visit Ticketek for tickets to the Whangārei show or the Turner Centre website for the Kerikeri show.