A map of buried feelings, untended fires and an aching quest for redemption.
Promises & Wild Beasts is Mama Kin Spender as you’ve never seen (or heard) them before – in a theatrical debut that bristles with intensity.
This eerily relatable theatrical debut, bristles with an intensity that can only come from the guts.
Mama Kin Spender take you on a transformative story strung through a cycle of songs drawn from their recent ARIA-nominated concept album Promises. Backed by a gospel choir they conjure the wild tidal nature of human desire, charting the friction between love’s profound, shape-shifting force and the promises we make to try contain it. Love is the bedrock and the beast that these naïve lovers seek to domesticate.
Fierce, intimate and unflinching, Mama Kin Spender brings their trademark percussive fire, searing harmonies and captivating soul-stirring presence to Promises & Wild Beasts.
This show is a rally cry to the heart - don’t miss it.
Director Craig Ilott
Lead Performers Danielle Caruana (Mama Kin), Dingo Spender (Spender), Mama Kin Spender
Composers Danielle Caruana & Dingo Spender
Choral composition & arrangement Virginia Bott
Live Sound Designer Max Barton
Stage Manager Georgia Smith
Production Manager Mark Haslam
Lighting Designer Matt Marshall
Producers Stacia Goninon & Libby Klysz
Images WILK
The development of this work has been supported by Perth Festival, Creative Australia, DLGSC and Fremantle City Council