Elisabeth Easter, The New Zealand
Listener
For more than 30 years,
Dr
David Galler has worked on the frontlines of New
Zealand’s health system as an intensive care specialist at
Middlemore Hospital and in its highest reaches as an advisor
to the Ministry of Health. His 2017 book,
Things
That Matter: Stories of life & death,
shines a powerful light on the extraordinary patients he met
and the struggles our society faces in caring for
them.
Developed over several years, Auckland Theatre
Company presents an important new New Zealand play by
award-winning playwright
Gary Henderson,
adapted from Galler’s generous and lyrical memoir.
Monday, 12 July 2021, 1:17 pm
Auckland Theatre Company’s (ATC)
production of
The Haka Party
Incident, described as an “innovative,
brilliant piece of theatre that all New Zealanders need to
see” will tour to venues and festivals across the motu
in October and November. Winner of Playmarket’s Best Play
by a Māori Playwright and the inaugural Dean Parker
Adaptation for Non-Fiction Award earlier this year, judges
said the play was “powerful political theatre which rips
the Band Aid off racism in Aotearoa.”
The Haka
Party Incident, written and directed by renowned
film-maker and theatre director
Katie Wolfe
(Ngāti Tama, Ngāti Mutunga), will return
Press Release – Auckland Theatre Company
Auckland Theatre Company’s (ATC) production of
The Haka Party Incident, described as an “innovative, brilliant piece of theatre that all New Zealanders need to see” will tour to venues and festivals across the motu in October and November. Winner of Playmarket’s Best Play by a Māori Playwright and the inaugural Dean Parker Adaptation for Non-Fiction Award earlier this year, judges said the play was “powerful political theatre which rips the Band Aid off racism in Aotearoa.”
The Haka Party Incident, written and directed by renowned film-maker and theatre director
Katie Wolfe (Ngāti Tama, Ngāti Mutunga), will return to
Billy Elliot the Musical) also in
the outstanding ensemble cast.
ATC Creative Director
Colin McColl (ONZM) says, “We are lucky to have an actor
of Michael Hurst’s calibre keen to take on this demanding
role. His rigorous intellect, curious mind, consummate craft
and physicality make him perfect to play Galileo. Far from
being an austere, cloistered dry scientist, Galileo is an
earthy, amusing, devious and flawed character, with a lust
for life and discovery.”
In 17th century Europe, the
famous and visionary mathematician, physicist and astronomer
Galileo Galilei found himself in hot water with the Catholic
Church for supporting heliocentrism: the idea that the Earth
Billy Elliot the Musical) also in the outstanding ensemble cast.
ATC Creative Director Colin McColl (ONZM) says, “We are lucky to have an actor of Michael Hurst’s calibre keen to take on this demanding role. His rigorous intellect, curious mind, consummate craft and physicality make him perfect to play Galileo. Far from being an austere, cloistered dry scientist, Galileo is an earthy, amusing, devious and flawed character, with a lust for life and discovery.”
In 17th century Europe, the famous and visionary mathematician, physicist and astronomer Galileo Galilei found himself in hot water with the Catholic Church for supporting heliocentrism: the idea that the Earth revolves around the sun, not, as was the belief at the time, the other way around. He also proposed that the Earth was not the centre of the universe, as espoused by the church. Cue major drama.