Latai challenges audience for action on climate change

A prominent Tongan-Australian performer and climate change activist, Latai Taumoepeau, is raising awareness of climate change in her latest fringe theatre performance “Disaffected”. Latai along with fellow performers Valerie Berry and Ryuichi Fujimura, reveal the impacts of climate change through body language and abstract display.

“This work was a physically and emotionally challenging piece that is very close to my heart, as it is about climate change”, said Latai Taumoepeau. “It was extremely textured and we utilised materials such as tarpaulins, corrugated iron sheeting to construct imagery that expressed experiences of being in cyclones and tsunamis”.

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Source: Matangi Tonga