A Traveller’s Guide To Turkish Dogs

17 Jan–8 Feb, 2020, Circa Theatre, Wellington
Oct, 2020, Taupo Winter Festival & Hawke’s Bay Arts Festival
Apr, 2021, Dunedin Arts Festival & Wanaka Festival of Colour
Sep–Oct, 2022, North Island Tour

Direction Jonathan Price
Written by Barnaby Olson, Jonathan Price, Andrew Paterson, Stevie Hancox-Monk & Tess Sullivan
From an original script by Barnaby Olson

Produced by A Mulled Whine
Set Design Lucas Neale
Lighting Design (2020) Elekis Problete Teirney
Lighting Design (2022) Michael Trigg
Sound Design & Composition Oliver Devlin

Performing Company
Barnaby Olson
Andrew Paterson
Stevie Hancox-Monk
Tess Sullivan
Sepelini Mua’au (2021 & 2022)

A story of two strays.

Set on the salty and smoky coast of Turkey against the backdrop of one of humanity’s oldest and richest oral storytelling traditions. Absolutely bursting with lively characters, this is a tour de force of performance from award-winning actors Stevie Hancox-Monk, Andrew Paterson and Tess Sullivan with Barnaby Olsen narrating this real-life shaggy-dog tale of how he moved to the Turkish coast to build boats and came to inherit a bullied, beaten stray animal.

A spellbindingly inventive retelling of a beautifully simple true story – one of friendship, adventure, loyalty, and truth. This is the story of a dog and her man. A journey across continents. It is the true story of a mad historian, immortal fishermen, and the Mother of Wolves, border crossings, buried treasure, and the value of companionship.