29 Oct 2022

Freya Daly Sadgrove: the different sides of a show pony

From Saturday Morning, 9:08 am on 29 October 2022
Freya Daly Sadgrove from Show Ponies looks straight into the camera with her hands on her hips. She wears a gold sequined jacked, with shite crop top and shorts

Freya Daly Sadgrove Photo: Supplied

“Smashing theatre and literature together“ is poet, producer and MC Freya Daly Sadgrove’s mantra for Show Ponies, the hit revue that sees Aotearoa poets perform their work like pop stars: outrageous costumes, bright lights, beats and, naturally, backup dancers. 

Show Ponies returns to Verb Festival in Wellington for two shows following a tour to Brisbane, Dunedin and Featherston earlier this year.

As brave and confrontational about her own life in print and on stage as she is funny and clever, Sydney-based Daly Sadgrove has a Master of Arts from the International Institute of Modern Letters. Head Girl with Te Herenga Waka University Press in 2020 was her first book. 

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