'Where?' from 'The Rabbits' / 2020 Brisbane Music Festival, Highlights
Katie Stenzel / Soprano
Alex Raineri / Piano
Live performance from the 2020 Brisbane Music Festival 'Streamed Series'.
Jai Farrell / Audio Engineer & Videographer
'The Rabbits' is a multi Helpmann Award winning Australian musical work created in 2015 by Kate Miller-Heidke and Iain Grandage with a libretto by Lally Katz and Kate Miller-Heidke. Though specifically a children’s show, the work examines serious subject matter. Based on the book by John Marsden, the story embodies an allegory for the White colonization of Australia. It depicts an invasion of ‘rabbits’ which are described as alien, harsh and grey, as they destroy the land and lives of the ‘native marsupials’. Though an ensemble song in the show, 'Where?' was released by Miller-Heidke and the ABC as a solo vocal work. It is a hauntingly beautiful song from one of the most excellent Australian productions of the century thus far.