A Soldier's Tale tours again
Having a huge new show packed with big names cancelled by a pandemic doesn't come as a surprise to us now, but it did to Igor Stravinsky in 1918. Histoire du Soldat, or The Soldier's Tale, was setting off on its maiden tour when the Spanish Flu pandemic shut it down. The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and the Royal New Zealand Ballet are joining forces to take the work to cities and towns right around Aotearoa. The piece was designed to be played in small town and village halls. It has music, dancing, a narrator and a pact with the devil! Sara Brodie is the director of this production of The Soldier's Tale and she joins Kathryn to discuss staging a show from one pandemic in another, a century on.