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The Tattooed Whale
Show · Wednesday, January 27 · 15:00 · Grande-Synthe
6 rue Garnier 59760 Grande Synthe
Kahutia is born into a Māori family eager to welcome the first heir of the new generation, the one through whom ancestral cultural knowledge can be transmitted with care. As tradition dictates... but Kahutia is a girl. In this feminist and ecological fable, adapted from the New Zealand novel by Witi Ihimaera, ancestral Māori legends intertwine with the portrait of a family torn between tradition and questioning. Shadow theatre scenes will echo the dreamlike scenes of puppetry…
