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Wednesday, 12 May 2021, 3:31 pm
Cian
Parker performs Sorry For Your Loss. Photo Credit: Kelsey
Scott
This Matariki, two inspiring
and very different solo performances come together for a
double bill that showcases wāhine Māori artists from
opposite ends of Aotearoa.
Playwright Fran Kewene
(Waikato/Tainui) and performer Julie Edwards (Ngāti
Whakaue, Ngāti Whare) are traveling up from Ōtepoti
Dunedin to present their acclaimed verbatim play Barrier
Ninja. Verbatim theatre, or documentary theatre, is a
style which has been embraced by Auckland audiences with the
recent sell-out season of Auckland Theatre Company’s
The Haka Party Incident. For Barrier Ninja, Kewene
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Cian Parker performs Sorry For Your Loss. Photo Credit: Kelsey Scott
This Matariki, two inspiring and very different solo performances come together for a double bill that showcases wāhine Māori artists from opposite ends of Aotearoa.
Playwright Fran Kewene (Waikato/Tainui) and performer Julie Edwards (Ngāti Whakaue, Ngāti Whare) are traveling up from Ōtepoti Dunedin to present their acclaimed verbatim play Barrier Ninja. Verbatim theatre, or documentary theatre, is a style which has been embraced by Auckland audiences with the recent sell-out season of Auckland Theatre Company’s
The Haka Party Incident. For Barrier Ninja, Kewene conducted numerous interviews with health practitioners and patients to explore the challenges they experience with Hauora and the current health system. All these voices were distilled and seamlessly weaved into an extraordinary portrait, performed by Julie Edwards, of our health system as seen from a Māori
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A member of the selection panel for the Arts Foundation Springboard mentoring programme says it was exciting to see the talent coming through.
Nigel Borrell says on the scheme, which teams an emerging artist, performer, writer or musician with someone senior in their field.
He says it was tricky picking and matching just seven people from more than 100 applicants. An exciting one at the same time because you get to see the talent and you get to see ways to support them through this programme and by partnering them with a mentor that is really going to give them that boost and that confidence and an insight into their experience as artists and as creative people that is used to help those young ones, he says.