Black Brass’s story of resilience
Perth Festival commissioned works give a stage for artists and audiences to share and listen to overlooked or unheard stories. Performance piece Black Brass from Mararo Wangai incorporates spoken word, musical theatre and performance told in multiple languages.
The story follows a journey of a cleaner who arrives in a music studio to do his job and encounters a mysterious musician in the studio. Their relationship goes much deeper than both of them know and they find themselves pulled into each others orbit.
Black Brass draws inspiration from interviews conducted with Perth’s Zimbabwean, Sudanese, South African, Central Congo, Mauritius, Nigerian, Congolese and Kenyan communities on the theme of resilience, giving voice to the marginalised and offering a window into the lives and voices not often heard in the theatre.
Mararo and musician and composer Mahamudo Selimane joined Breakfast with Taylah to chat about how the show came to be and its story, as well as perform a song for us live on air.
