I Ken So Productions

29/05/2023

'E le tu fa’amauga se tagata'

This is also true of our current production, and the beautiful, talented, powerhouse of a team who have come together to help bring this story and vision to life.

Aptly syncing in with Samoan language week, we'd like to introduce the actors of 'O le Pepelo, le Gaoi ma le Pala'ai' - 'The Liar, the Thief and the Coward'.

Semu Filipo (The Worm - Night Song, Far North), Fiona Collins (Emilia, Pop up Globe 2023, Vai),Villa Junior Lemanu (The Panthers, The Wholehearted), Jake Arona (Dawn Raids, Fresh off the Boat), Albert Latailakepa (The Worm, Wellington Paranormal), Maurea Perez-Varea (Le Moana WOMAD 2023, We Are Many)
Brett Taefu (Matenui, Brown Crown)
Taofi Mose-Nehemia (Le Moana WOMAD 2023, We Are Many),Lanakila Opetaia-Tiatia (Mimic Another, Orokohanga).

14th-17th June 2023
Wednesday- Thursday 6:30pm; Fri-Sat 8:30pm
Tickets: $15 – $45

Link to buy tickets: http://bitly.ws/FTWf

28/03/2021

Our heartfelt thanks to everyone in Tāmaki Makaurau who came from near and far to attend and support our little show 'Digging to Cambodia' at the Basement Theatre.

It has been a journey and we are so blessed to have been able to share it with you all, considering these uncertain times both with Covid and prevalent Asian hate crimes. Despite all of these things, we have been held, and supported.

The feedback we have received from those who watched it, validates the reason why these kinds of connections are so important and pertinent especially to us as the artists of this work.

We don't do this just for ourselves, this is not only my story, these are our stories. We can only hope that it spurs others to do the same.

We could not have done this without the persistent Nisha Madhan for inviting us, our dear friends Ahilan Karunaharan, Karnan Saba, Anya Tate Manning, and Tawata Productions for the initial invitation to include us.

Much love, alofas to you all.

Signing out for now,

Sarita Keo Kossamak So and Natano Keni of I Ken So Productions

សូមអរគុណ !

25/03/2021

On Opening night we had members from the Khmer Community in the house. Below is a transcript from an excerpt from the radio interview between the members who attended Digging to Cambodia.

Only two more shows to go. Book at: https://www.iticket.co.nz/events/2021/mar/digging-to-cambodia

24/03/2021

Digging to Cambodia continues to excavate more beautiful audience responses for Sarita Keo Kossamak So and Natano Keni.

‘…A truly moving, devastating, beautiful piece…’

‘….a timeless loop of iterative storytelling….’

‘…..so rich and so important to hear,..’

‘…SO GOOD. so, so good…’

We are on for 3 more nights only.
To Book

A poignantly warped and sometimes silly journey through history and memory, Sarita So’s Digging to Cambodia is a letter to her past, present and future self. Fea...

23/03/2021

We opened Digging to Cambodia at Basement Theatre last night and already our audiences are heaping praise on Sarita Keo Kossamak So's evocative work.

‘…beautiful piece of theatre…’

‘…Do yourself a favor and treat yourself to some theatrical culture…’

‘…Digging To Cambodia is a creative, clever, very brave piece of work…’

‘…A multifaceted memoir on family, survival and a way forward…’

Only on for 4 more nights. To book go to:

A poignantly warped and sometimes silly journey through history and memory, Sarita So’s Digging to Cambodia is a letter to her past, present and future self. Fea...

22/03/2021

‘I’m always digging – digging for treasures, digging for knowledge, digging for truth – because I’m curious.’
- Sarita Keo Kossamak So - Writer and Performer of Digging to Cambodia.

We open tonight., tickets available for the next 4 nights.

21/03/2021

Check out Sarita Keo Kossamak So from Digging to Cambodia in the latest episode of the Disruptors.

Disrupters is a series where creatives in Aotearoa talk about how they disrupt with their art. Produced by Basement Theatre with support from Re:News

Tickets are still available for our Auckland season this week at https://www.iticket.co.nz/events/2021/mar/digging-to-cambodia

EPISODE 6: Jean and Sarita talk about making their solo shows Change Your Own Life and Digging to Cambodia ahead of their seasons at Basement. In their discussion, they delve into how they take care of themselves while creating and performing deep...

20/03/2021

Memory and history are notions that I have and shall forever be both fascinated and confused by. 15 years ago, I set out to explore these aspects in relation to the horrors that occurred in Cambodia during the years known as the ‘Killing Fields’. Not having gone through this experience myself, only through films, historical archives and the memories of my parents has created a rather surreal understanding and relationship to my country nostalgia and a heightened romanticism for a time before. The harbouring of memories that don’t belong to me, the making – unreliability of memory and the loss of it. The remaking of history, who writes history, who can?

= Sarita Keo Kossamak So, Writer and Performer of Digging to Cambodia.

Book your tickets at: https://www.iticket.co.nz/events/2021/mar/digging-to-cambodia?fbclid=IwAR26utorURm7tQhn4ryy_83IKO0ALEfKV_OXoqt8AHcm_twawAZDniHj-Vw