Performance storytelling by: Mikael Öberg.

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Step into a world where creation is still in motion - where the Sun Beast scorches the skies, Grandmother Fire blazes, and fish are the size of islands. Where secrets lurk in the underworld, and Great Woman Night watches over it all.

At the centre of this vibrant and unfinished cosmos stands dark eyed Maui. A master of creative disruption. A quick-witted mover and shaker. A shape-shifting boundary-breaker. Wielding a magical jawbone and an insatiable curiosity, this ancient trickster relentlessly reshapes reality, answering every 'why?' with an audacious 'why not?'.

The chaotic exploits of this demigod of the southern hemisphere have haunted Mikael Öberg's imagination for two decades and the result is comedic, unfiltered myth fuelled by irrepressible energy and accompanying sonic electrickery.

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CONTENT WARNING: this performance contains descriptions of violence, sex, stillbirth, genitals, and vagina dentata, contextualised within a paradigm of mythic narrative, archetype and metaphor.

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MIKAEL ÖBERG

Mikael Öberg is a Swedish performance storyteller and member of the Fabula Storytelling Company in Stockholm. He tells folktales, myth and epic to a wide range of audiences in theatre venues, schools and festivals internationally. Mikael specialises in Norse mythology and Finnish epic, and creates experimental shows in collaboration with musicians and other artists. Mikael also performs with the physical theatre ensemble, Teater Sláva, and is co-artistic director of Cistern.se, organising experimental sonic events and cross-arts festivals.

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