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NYC Premiere of "The Offering"

"The Offering" by Omar Musa and Mariel Roberts Musa, comes to New York City!


Presented by Joe's Pub at The Public Theater, 425 Lafayette Street near Astor Place in Manhattan, New York City. Tickets $30:


Pic by Ralf Puder
Pic by Ralf Puder

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


Award-winning 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. Describing it as an “apocalyptic epic poem”, it combines stirring music, poetry and theatre performance, rooted in the tradition of oral history. Using Omar's family history in Sabah as a springboard, The Offering grapples with themes such as environmental destruction, climate change, Southeast Asian colonial history, belonging and borderlessness. The show combines storytelling, poetry, hip hop and live music with sound recordings made in Bornean forests and coral reefs. Think The Odyssey, performed by Gil Scott-Heron, set in South-East Asia.



In The Offering, a nameless water spirit searches for his memory on an endless plastic ocean. With memories, he hopes to rediscover his humanity – and land. As pieces of his lost world appear, he slowly has a vision of how the world ended, and what his role was in it. But in seeking his revelations, he realizes he is trapped in a world reduced to fire, water and plastic. Will he find immolation, or the wonder of a limitless world?


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