Agapi & Other Kinds of Love // Tour
What Are People Saying?
“The performance itself was fabulous. Everything about it, the text and music were brilliant.”
— Audience Member
“This was one of the highest calibre and most transformative live performances I have attended in my life.”
— Audience Member
“An innovative and intriguing show merging hip-hop beats with music for ancient instruments”
— South Sydney Herald
“A mix of rap, hip-hop, poetry and music, reminding me of Lin-Manuel Miranda's 'Hamilton'"
— Theatre Thoughts
“A glorious spectacle of story, song, colour & sound. Simply magical.”
— Audience Member
“Brilliant, creative, explosive…
A voice for our humanity.”
— Audience Member
Upcoming Shows
Byron Bay
Bendigo
Agapi & Other Kinds of Love is a poetry and Hip-hop theatre show inspired by the Ancient Greek words for love.
Written and performed by poet & rapper, Luka Lesson, Agapi & Other Kinds of Love is a search not only for the deepest meanings of love but also for the storytelling traditions of Luka’s Greek ancestry.
Equal parts rap concert, poetic musical & classical history lesson, Agapi & Other Kinds of Love shows us how love prevails despite the trials and tribulations of the ages.
Agapi begins with Socrates telling a banquet of friends everything he learned from a mysterious lover named: Diotima. The gods then take the audience on a journey - collapsing time and space to arrive in modern day Athens, where the two reincarnations of the Ancient lovers fall in love (again) in the midst of a riot.
Luka's reputation as one of Australia's best storytellers shines as he then takes us on a journey through the 7 different kinds of love, rapping and speaking his way over the breathtaking musical compositions of James Humberstone of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.
Self-love, erotic love, familial love and more all collide with statues of Aphrodite, Molotov cocktails and the Parthenon's steps as we journey through Ancient and Modern Greece towards the ultimate kind of love: Agapi.
Alice Springs
Melbourne (new date tbc)
Adelaide