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The stage is erected outside 3 Roseman Ave in advance of the Auckland Arts Festival. Company member Tafadzwa Chikomba said it was “very refreshing” to be funded for a creative project. Fellow actor Maia Ratana agreed, saying with the push of support from MSD it felt like the project was being taken seriously. The show,
Love to Say Goodbye, will tell the stories of a community displaced by Kāinga Ora redevelopments. The two state houses being used for the production were slated for demolition, like so many others in the neighbourhood. Even as the company started devising the show in January, they weren t sure how much of the properties they would be able to use.
Mount Roskill residents fight to keep an iconic state house from demolition.
The bulldozers were outside 3 Roseman Ave when John Leach realised what he needed to do to save the old state house. He was on the phone to Kāinga Ora immediately: “I had to say to them – I’ve had the idea, it’s actually really good and you’ll have to take away the bulldozers.” Like so many others in the Auckland neighbourhood, the Mt Roskill state house was slated for demolition.
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Sitting at the base of Mt Roskill, the twin state houses are some of the last few standing.