The Ground Remembers Us

The Ground Remembers Us is a youth-led New Zealand theatre initiative that explores the consequences of war through movement, music, image, and spoken text. Inspired and driven from Aotearoa New Zealand, the work tells a New Zealand-based story connected to the First World War and the lasting impact of conflict on people, families, memory, and place.

The performance takes this story back to its origins: to the ground that still holds these memories in the Ypres Salient in Belgium and the battlefields of France. Through the voices and bodies of young New Zealand performers, the work reflects on what war takes, what it leaves behind, and how remembrance continues across generations.

This is a significant new work, written and inspired by New Zealanders, carrying a story of remembrance from our own communities back to the places where so much sacrifice occurred, before returning to New Zealand in 2027 to tour and share that experience with communities at home.