Expendable Animals: Songs and Improvisations by Bill Direen and Guests.
Direen’s new show brings together elements of music poetry and theatre in a live 
evening of texts, songs and improvisation. Direen will perform songs, some known, some new, counterbalanced by creative compositions by a small ensemble of select musicians.
Who:Bill Direen, Steve Cournane, others. Text by Direen and Alan Brunton.
When: Friday 18 & Saturday 19 May, 8pm
Where: Audio Foundation, 4 Poynton Tce, Auckland
It will be the first-ever public performance of a mini song-cycle written by Direen and poet Alan Brunton about Michael Joseph Savage.
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