By Heart Photo: @Magda Bizarro
Written and performed by Portuguese playwright and actor Tiago Rodrigues, By Heart gets 10 audience volunteers to attempt the intellectual challenge of learning a poem, by heart, on stage.
While the poem is being learnt, the participants and audience are lead through a series of illuminating, inter-generational stories about famous writers, fictional characters, and most profoundly of all, his grandmother, who is losing her sight and with it, the ability to read.
Playing at the Loft, Q Theatre from March 13 - 16th By Heart is part of the Auckland Arts Festival.
