Omar Musa & Mariel Roberts Musa - The Offering (A Plastic Ocean Oratorio)

"The Offering (A Plastic Ocean Oratorio)"

“When the world drowned, we had lived in the fire so long it felt mundane.”

Turtle eggs. Volcanos. A plastic ocean. Award-winning Malaysian-Australian author, poet and rapper Omar Musa and internationally renowned American cellist and composer Mariel Roberts Musa bring a dramatic seafaring epic to the stage with The Offering (A Plastic Ocean Oratorio). Set on a post-apocalyptic world, the show combines storytelling, poetry, hip hop and live cello with sound recordings made in Bornean forests and coral reefs. Using Omar's family history in Borneo as a springboard, The Offering grapples with themes such as environmental destruction, climate change, South-East Asian colonial history, belonging and borderlessness. Think The Odyssey, set in a post-apocalypse South-East Asia, performed by Gil Scott-Heron.

“Rapper, poet, author and visual artist, Omar Musa is arguably one of the most exciting creators in Australia right now” — The New York Times Style Magazine: Australia

Mariel Roberts Musa: a “fearless explorer” in her field (Chicago Reader) and member and co-director of the Wet Ink Ensemble (named “The Best Classical Music Ensemble of 2018” by The New York Times).

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