Wakka Wakka's Dead as a Dodo Makes Australian Premiere at Brisbane Festival, 23–26 September

Key facts

• Dead as a Dodo makes its Australian premiere at Brisbane Festival from 23 to 26 September at Brisbane Powerhouse.
• Wakka Wakka is a New York City and Oslo-based visual theatre company founded 25 years ago by Gwendolyn Warnock and Kirjan Waage.
• The production is the third part of Wakka Wakka's Animalia trilogy, following Animal R.I.O.T. (2019) and The Immortal Jellyfish Girl (2021).
• Dead as a Dodo is suitable for audiences aged five and over and is not specifically made for children.
• The show features two friends—a boy and a dodo—who begin as disintegrating bones in the underworld and must dig for more, with the dodo eventually sprouting feathers again.
• Gwendolyn Warnock co-wrote, co-directs, co-produces and co-designed the set and costumes with Kirjan Waage.
• The production has previously toured Norway, the US, South Korea, France, Portugal, Italy, Taiwan and Sweden.
• Brisbane Festival also includes Make, Believe, Magic: The Worlds of The Jim Henson Company at the Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery of Modern Art.