A Week of Choice For Maori Theatre
Wellington has a long, proud history of producing iconic Māori theatre and performers, and is home to some of this
county's leading Māori theatre writers, directors, actors and producers who continue to present international quality
work for our stages in an environment where arts funding and performance space is hotly contested.
So, where else would you hold a festival of Māori Theatre?
This February *Te Pūtahitanga a te Rēhia, an Independent Māori Theatre collective of long time theatre professionals
such as Jim Moriarty, Nancy Brunning, Tanemahuta Gray and Hone Kouka; and including many more of the Wellington Māori
Theatre community, will be adding to the arts festivities in the city by offering Pūtahi Festival – a week of choice
Māori theatre and a celebration of the diversity of Te Ao Māori.
The festival is offering international quality theatre with prices that have the community in mind where you can expect
to see fresh, inspiring, heartening and uniquely Māori theatre works, both seasoned and new.
Featuring Hone Kouka's newest work the beautiful ones - a hyper real digital love story produced by Tawata Productions,
Te Rakau Trust's moving story of friendship, love, madness and redemption The Battalion, Bruce Mason Award 2013
recipient Jamie McCaskill's new work Not in our Neighbourhood, a solo show on life at the Women's Refuge, produced by
Tikapa Productions, as well as an afternoon of play readings and TGI Whanau – an evening of fine Māori music and
company.
The festival is on from 25 February - 1 March at Studio 77, 77 Fairlie Terrace, Kelburn, Wellington.
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