Archived: O le Pepelo, le Gaoi, ma le Pala’ai | The Liar, the Thief, and the Coward

A collaboration between Auckland Arts Festival, Auckland Theatre Company and I Ken So Productions, is the darkly comic exploration of the fa’a sāmoa.

Power, politics and tradition collide in this darkly comic piece by Natano Keni (Sāmoa/Aotearoa) and Sarita So (Khmer/Aotearoa). It is a commentary on the growing divide between those who have chosen to stay and those who have chosen to leave.

Using both English and Gagana Sāmoa, O le Pepelo, le Gaoi, ma le Pala’ai | The Liar, the Thief, and the Coward is a modern tale of a man who’s out of step with the times and whose time is running out. Who then will survive?