WHEEL OF experience
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WHEEL OF EXPERIENCE is a unique blend of music and theatre that tells the lives and legends of early New Zealand through epic original song. Three consummate performers walk a fine line between history and legend, humour and heart, as they paint eight stories of struggle, triumph and iniquity from another time.
Since its first incarnation in the 2011 Random Acts Festival, the show has toured the length of NZ, enjoyed a sold out season at Q theatre, pop up public installations and a 5 night tour with the Small Hall Sessions. From town halls to town squares,
to theatres to opera houses, the show has been received to unanimous praise.
Led by Peter Daubé’s (King Skinny) powerful vocals and commanding theatrical presence, the music morphs with each unfolding story, as brilliant multi-instrumentalists David Ward (Indian ink Theatre Company) and Dave Khan (Reb Fountain, Marlon Williams) shift rhythm, pace and texture. Each song is a journey unto itself, as the performers move from haunting ballad, to wailing sea shanty, from blistering bluegrass to pounding blues.
The trio performs live on a vast array of acoustics instruments including banjo, fiddle, mandolin, cigar-box and zhongruan, as well as hearty vocal harmony. Together they bring alive each rich story in a production steeped in the history it exudes.
Experience the crimes of the Burgess Gang, love and betrayal on the Raurimu Spiral, the murder of Joe Kum Yung, the plight of a hardy band of shipwrecked sealers, confidence trickster Amy Bock’s most infamous transformation and the legend of archetypal 'westie' Francesco Rodriguez Figuera, known since as "Don Buck.”
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"DAVE WARD, DAVE KHAN AND PETER DAUBE HAVE COMPOSED A MUSICAL TAONGA THAT SHOULD NOT ONLY BE ENJOYED BUT ALSO SERIOUSLY DISCUSSED AND LISTENED TO. I ASSERT THAT WHEEL OF EXPERIENCE, UNDERSTATED AS IT MIGHT BE, IS A NATIONAL THEATRICAL TREASURE."
- Tamati Patuwai, Theatreview
"THE FACT THAT THESE ARE ALL ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS SHOWCASES THE AMOUNT OF SKILL AND TALENT THAT THESE MEN POSSESS, MAKING MUSIC THAT JUST SINKS INTO YOUR BONES WITH A SENSE OF TIMELESSNESS."
- Ingrid Grenar, Keeping up with NZ
"NEITHER MUSICAL NOR THEATRICAL EXPERIENCES COME ANY MORE ASTONISHING THAN THE WHEEL OF EXPERIENCE. THE THREE PERFORMERS SEEM TO HAVE STEPPED STRAIGHT OUT OF ONE OF THE EPIC FOLK BALLADS THAT ARE THE BASIS OF THIS INTIMATE AND UTTERLY ENGAGING SHOW. ENTER THEIR THEATRE AND YOU ARE STEPPING STRAIGHT INTO ONE OF THEIR SONGS. YOU HEAR ABOUT GOOD PERFORMERS BRINGING SONGS TO LIFE, BUT IN THIS CASE THE SONGS SEEM TO HAVE GIVEN BIRTH TO THE PERFORMERS."
- Nick Bollinger
“WILL HAUNT ME FOR DAYS…YOU CAN HEAR A COLLECTIVE SIGH AFTER EACH PIECE FINISHES”
- Vivienne Quinn, Theatreview
"DAVE WARD, DAVE KHAN AND PETER DAUBE HAVE COMPOSED A MUSICAL TAONGA THAT SHOULD NOT ONLY BE ENJOYED BUT ALSO SERIOUSLY DISCUSSED AND LISTENED TO. I ASSERT THAT WHEEL OF EXPERIENCE, UNDERSTATED AS IT MIGHT BE, IS A NATIONAL THEATRICAL TREASURE."
- Tamati Patuwai, Theatreview
"THE FACT THAT THESE ARE ALL ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS SHOWCASES THE AMOUNT OF SKILL AND TALENT THAT THESE MEN POSSESS, MAKING MUSIC THAT JUST SINKS INTO YOUR BONES WITH A SENSE OF TIMELESSNESS."
- Ingrid Grenar, Keeping up with NZ
"NEITHER MUSICAL NOR THEATRICAL EXPERIENCES COME ANY MORE ASTONISHING THAN THE WHEEL OF EXPERIENCE. THE THREE PERFORMERS SEEM TO HAVE STEPPED STRAIGHT OUT OF ONE OF THE EPIC FOLK BALLADS THAT ARE THE BASIS OF THIS INTIMATE AND UTTERLY ENGAGING SHOW. ENTER THEIR THEATRE AND YOU ARE STEPPING STRAIGHT INTO ONE OF THEIR SONGS. YOU HEAR ABOUT GOOD PERFORMERS BRINGING SONGS TO LIFE, BUT IN THIS CASE THE SONGS SEEM TO HAVE GIVEN BIRTH TO THE PERFORMERS."
- Nick Bollinger
“WILL HAUNT ME FOR DAYS…YOU CAN HEAR A COLLECTIVE SIGH AFTER EACH PIECE FINISHES”
- Vivienne Quinn, Theatreview
