The Allusionist Live Show 2022 - Your Name .... Here......... Award-winning podcaster Helen Zaltzman, aka The Allusionist, brings her funny and informative show to the stage, with house band Martin Austwick.
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The Allusionist Live Show 2022
The Allusionist Presents Your Name .... Here.....
Lake Wānaka Centre - Saturday 6 August, 6.30pm - 8.00pm
Returning to Aotearoa New Zealand for the first time since their sold-out tour of 2019, the award-winning entertainment podcast The Allusionist is back with an all new stage show ‘Your Name Here’. The show’s linguistic pincers get stuck into words that come from people’s names: eponyms. Eponyms find themselves all over menus, hats, exercise manoeuvres, streets, towns, measurements, flowers, space, guns, diseases… Sometimes they’re an honour, sometimes they’re an insult, but they’re always a good story. Join host Helen Zaltzman and musician Martin Austwick for a fun, fascinating and irreverent adventure into the chaotic world of words.
Helen Zaltzman is a multiple award-winning podcast host and producer. Her linguistics podcast The Allusionist has won multiple awards and the live theatrical spin-off has appeared on stages around the world. Answer Me This, the comedy show she co-founded with Olly Mann in 2007, was one of Britain's most beloved and successful independent podcasts, running for 400 episodes and nearly 15 years. She is a regular guest.
Martin Austwick is a podcaster, musician and singer-songwriter, and has released albums as Pale Bird. He has performed music live for The Allusionist, 99% Invisible, The Bugle, and the Third Coast International Audio Awards, and contributed music for a number of podcasts. His podcast about every Tom Waits song is called Song by Song.
Website: theallusionist.org
Instagram: instagram.com/Allusionistshow
YouTube: youtube.com/allusionistshow
For more information or to pick up a ticket contact Wānaka Library wanaka.library@qldc.govt.nz | (03) 443 0410
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