Of Earth and Quill 2

When one world burns and the sky forgets, whose stories survive and what becomes our inHERitance?‘Of Earth and Quill’ is a visionary one-woman opera by Helen Epega (The Venus Bushfires), creator of ‘Song Queen: A Pidgin Opera’.

Set in a post-apocalyptic future still taking form, it explores survival, cultural memory, identity and belonging through a multisensory fusion of operatic voice, African percussion, movement, sound, visual imagery and poetic storytelling.Inspired by the enduring power of stories and the human desire to remember, the work unfolds through a series of striking visual and sonic movements.

As memory fragments and histories fade, a creator searches for meaning amongst the remnants of what has been left behind, grappling with questions of inheritance, authorship and belonging.