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A Song For You: An Unlikely Drug StoryCABARET, MAGIC & BURLESQUE
In his deeply moving follow-up to 2019’s “Purple Plastic Maori”, Shalom Kaa unfolds his harrowing yet uplifting journey from celebrated artist to battling addiction and despair, then onto a path of redemption. Shalom’s narrative takes a dark turn by 2022, as he faces separation, financial collapse, and a life-threatening addiction. Hospitalised with a severe infection from a dirty needle, he finds ironic solace in Whitney Houston’s last album before she died, “I Look To You”, drawing parallels between their struggles and finding profound meaning in the lyrics that reflect his own life’s tumult.
This story is a candid exploration of his fall into darkness, marked by raw honesty and vulnerability. Through Whitney Houston’s music and reenactments of his own psychology sessions, Shalom confronts his deepest lows, crafting a narrative of loss (”Like I Never Left”), addiction, and strenuous recovery (”I Didn’t Know My Own Strength”), as we slowly learn that the path to sobriety lays deeply in the mind of an innocent child (”A Song For You”) and saying goodbye to the parts of our lives that don’t matter (“Salute”).
Expertly told with love through song, dance, theatre, comedy and thoughtful production, there is no wallowing, just a provocation to continue to walk with kindness.
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Brown's Mart, 12 Smith St, Darwin City NT 0800, Australia,Darwin, Northern Territory
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