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Waiora Te Ūkaipō - The Homeland
''Waiora Te Ūkaipō - The Homeland'' is a 1996 play by New Zealand playwright Hone Kouka. The play describes the social dislocation that happens to Māori who leave their tribal lands. It is the first part of a trilogy with ''Homefires'' (1998) and ''The Prophet (play), The Prophet'' (2004), and the teenagers of ''The Prophet'' are the children of ''Waiora'''s Amiria, Rongo and Boyboy. History The play was commissioned by the New Zealand Festival of the Arts, Wellington International Festival of the Arts. Kouka has described the play as about immigrants, writing "unfortunately the immigrants in the play are Māori, displaced in their own country." The play was published by Huia Publishers in 2007 and then by Playmarket in 2019. Kouka says of the play that it is big in scope and 'naturalistic and impressionistic'. Characters The Whanau (family) * John/Hone - the father, late thirties, has always worked outside * Sue/Wai Te Atatu - the mother, had her children in her teens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hone Kouka
Hone Vivian Kouka (born 1968) is a New Zealand playwright. He has written 13 plays, which have been staged in New Zealand and worldwide including Canada, South Africa, New Caledonia and Britain. Kouka's plays have won multiple awards at the Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards. Kouka has also worked as a theatre director and producer. In 2009, Kouka was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to contemporary Māori people, Māori theatre. Background Born in Balclutha, New Zealand, Balclutha in 1968, Kouka was educated at King's High School, Dunedin, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of Otago in 1988. Later, he graduated from Toi Whakaari, Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School in 1990, with a Diploma in Acting. Kouka has ancestral ties to the Māori tribes of Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Kahungunu and Ngāti Raukawa. He was the partner of fellow playwright and actress, director and writer Nancy Brunning (1971–2019), with whom he had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Te Kare
Jason Te Kare is a New Zealand director, playwright and actor. Early life and education Te Kare graduated from Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School in 2001 with a Bachelor of Performing Arts (Acting). Work Te Kare played Ty in the premiere Downstage Theatre production of Hone Kouka's '' The Prophet'' in 1994, directed by Nina Nawalowalo. He made his professional debut as Boyboy in the premiere production of Hone Kouka's play '' Waiora'' at the Hannah Playhouse in Wellington in March 1996. Te Kare co-wrote the play ''Cellfish'' with Miriama McDowell and Rob Mokaraka. ''Cellfish'', about a woman teaching Shakespeare in a men's correctional facility, opened the Auckland Arts Festival in 2017, and was nominated for a 2017 Adam New Zealand Play Award. Te Kare directed the production at Q Theatre. Te Kare played both Theseus and Oberon in the te reo Māori version of ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' at the Pop-up Globe in December 2017 to February 2018. In November and D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Briar Grace-Smith
Briar Grace-Smith is a screenwriter, director, actor, and short story writer from New Zealand. She has worked as an actor and writer with the Māori theatre cooperative Te Ohu Whakaari and Māori theatre company He Ara Hou. Early plays ''Don't Call Me Bro'' and ''Flat Out Brown'', were first performed at the Taki Rua Theatre in Wellington in 1996. ''Waitapu'', a play written by Grace-Smith, was devised by He Ara Hou and performed by the group on the Native Earth Performing Arts tour in Canada in 1996. Work Her first major play ''Nga Pou Wahine'' earned her the 1995 Bruce Mason Playwriting Award. Grace-Smith won Best New Zealand Play at the 1997 Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards for ''Purapurawhetu'', called "a new classic of New Zealand theatre" by New Zealand Listener. The play also toured to Canada and Greece. Grace-Smith's plays ''Purapurawhetu'' and ''When Sun and Moon Collide'' were televised as two feature-length episodes in the six-part series ''Atamira.'' They aired on Māo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David O'Donnell (actor-director)
David John O'Donnell is a New Zealand theatre director, actor, and academic based in Wellington, New Zealand. He has taught at Victoria University of Wellington since 1999, and is a full professor. Early life and education O'Donnell has a diploma in Acting from Toi Whakaari, Toi Whakaari/New Zealand Drama School (1979), where his contemporaries included Lani Tupu and Simon Phillips (director), Simon Phillips. He is a graduate of both Victoria University of Wellington and the University of Otago, where he was awarded a Postgraduate Diploma in Arts (PGrad Dip) and an MA. His 1999 Master's thesis was titled ''Re-staging history: historiographic drama from New Zealand and Australia''. Work O'Donnell began his academic career as an assistant lecturer in Theatre Studies at Allen Hall Theatre, Allen Hall, Otago University (1992 -1998), and has taught at Victoria University of Wellington since 1999, where he is a full professor in the School of English, Film, Theatre, Media Studie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kia Mau Festival
The Kia Mau Festival, previously called Ahi Kaa Festival, is a biennial performing arts festival in Wellington, New Zealand. In te reo Māori, kia mau is "a call to stay - an invitation to join us". The festival covers Māori, Pasifika and Indigenous performing arts, including comedy, music, dance and theatre, across a variety of venues around the Wellington area. Background The Kia Mau Festival was founded by playwright Hone Kouka. The inaugural festival was in 2015, and it was held annually until 2019. Background to the Kia Mau festival was the production company Tawata with Kouka and another playwright Mīria George at the helm creating the Matariki Development Festival in 2010 at Circa Theatre. This was a festival for 'new writing for the stage by Māori' which was held at the same time as an annual Tawata play was presented. Tawata had also organised a meeting about 'Māori Theatre' at Downstage Theatre in 2006, at this was a panel discussion chaired by Alice Te Pung ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Gray (choreographer)
Jack Gray is a New Zealand choreographer, researcher and teacher of contemporary Māori dance. Background Gray was born in 1977 in Te Atatu Peninsula, Auckland, New Zealand. He affiliates to the Māori iwi Te Rarawa, Ngāpuhi and Ngāti Porou. He studied at Unitec completing the performing and screen arts bachelor's degree in 1998. Later in 2004 he did a diploma of computer graphic design at Natcoll Design Technology New Zealand. He lives and works in Auckland. Career Gray founded Atamira Dance Company with Louise Potiki Bryant in 2000. Gray also started his own dance company called Jack Gray Dance. Works created with this company include ''View From the Gods'' that was in the Tempo Dance Festival in 2006 and ''Tuawhenua'' which had a season at BATS Theatre in 2008 featuring dancers Shannon Mutu and Nancy Wijohn and a combination of electronic music with traditional Māori instruments performed by Charlotte90 and Alistair Fraser. In 2012 Gray choreographed ''Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Illinois State University
Illinois State University (ISU) is a public research university in Normal, Illinois, United States. It was founded in 1857 as Illinois State Normal University and is the oldest public university in Illinois. The university emphasizes teaching and is recognized as one of the top ten largest producers of teachers in the US according to the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education. It is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity". The university's athletic teams are members of the Missouri Valley Conference and the Missouri Valley Football Conference and are known as the "Redbirds," in reference to the state bird, the cardinal. History ISU was founded in 1857, the same year Illinois' first Board of Education was convened and two years after the Free School Act was passed by the state legislature. Among its supporters were judge and future Supreme Court Justice, David Davis and local businessman and land holder Jesse W. Fell whose fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Court Theatre (New Zealand)
The Court Theatre is a professional theatre company based in Christchurch, New Zealand. It was founded in 1971 and located in the Christchurch Arts Centre from 1976 until the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake. It opened new temporary premises in Addington, New Zealand, Addington in December 2011. it is New Zealand's largest theatre company. In May 2025 the theatre re-opened at a new purpose-built facility in the Christchurch Performing Arts precinct of the Central City. History Founding and early years The company was founded by Yvette Bromley and Mervyn Thompson in 1971, who thought Christchurch deserved a professional theatre of a similar calibre to the Auckland Mercury Theatre, Auckland, Mercury Theatre or the Wellington Downstage Theatre. The pair served served as Co-artistic Directors for the first three years of the company. Bromley chose the theatre's name out of affection for the Royal Court Theatre in London, which she knew well from her upbringing and drama ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regent On Broadway
The Regent on Broadway is a large theatre in Palmerston North, New Zealand, named so because it is the Regent Theatre on Broadway Avenue. History Designed in 1929 by Charles Hollinshed of Sydney, the theatre complex was officially opened to the public on 4 July 1930. Its original use was as a cinema and opera house, but, with the decline of the movie over the decades, the Regent closed in 1991. The Palmerston North City Council acquired the building in 1992 by swapping it with the previous owner for the Opera House. In 1993 money was raised to fully restore the building, with the PNCC to contribute the sum of , followed by a community donation of , and from New Zealand Lotteries Grant Board. The auditorium has painted panels on the roof, all of which were cleaned during the renovations of the 1990s. The staircase leading up to the mezzanine floor is carpeted in the centre, with marble on the sides. The lobby is carpeted, with a special weave being manufactured by Feltex carpe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kamehameha Schools
Kamehameha Schools, formerly called Kamehameha Schools Bishop Estate (KSBE), is a private school system in Hawaii established by the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Estate, under the terms of the will of Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop, who was a formal member of the House of Kamehameha. Bishop's will established a trust called the "Bernice Pauahi Bishop Estate" that is Hawaii's largest private landowner. Originally established in 1887 as an all-boys school for native Hawaiian children, it shared its grounds with the Bishop Museum. After it moved to another location, the museum took over two school halls. Kamehameha Schools opened its girls' school in 1894. It became coeducational in 1965. The Kapālama campus opened in 1931, while the Maui and Hawaii campuses opened in 1996 and 2001, respectively. It was developed at the bequest of Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop to educate children of Hawaiian descent, and is designed to serve students from preschool through twelfth grade. The school teach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brighton Festival
Brighton Festival is a large, annual, curated multi-arts festival in England, first held in 1967. It includes music, theatre, dance, circus, art, film, literature, debate, outdoor and family events, and takes place in venues in the city of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England, each May. History In 1964, the first moves were made to hold a festival in Brighton, and Ian Hunter, the eventual artistic director of the Festival, submitted a programme of ideas. This was followed by a weekend conference in 1965, and the board of the Brighton Festival Society was born. The inaugural festival was held in 1967, and included the first ever exhibition of concrete poetry in the UK, alongside performances by Laurence Olivier and Yehudi Menuhin. In the introduction to the 1968 Festival programme, Ian Hunter explained the original intentions of the festival: “The aim of the Brighton Festival is to stimulate townsfolk and visitors into taking a new look at the arts and to give them ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Pearse-Otene
Helen Pearse-Otene is a New Zealand playwright, actor and author. Biography In 1989 Pearse-Otene's partner Jim Moriarty was one of the founders of a theatre company called Te Rākau Hua o te Wao Tapu, which works in prisons, youth residential homes and on marae; Pearse-Otene joined the company in 1999. Te Rākau is New Zealand’s longest-running independent Māori theatre company. Pearse-Otene's theatre practice has been influenced by Te Rākau's kaupapa Māori, founded on the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and influenced by features of Bertolt Brecht's epic theatre, such as direct address, minimal technology and the aim of social change, also a purpose of Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed. As both script-writer and workshop facilitator, Pearse-Otene has in-depth experience of applying ensemble movement and chorus to the work of Te Rākau as well as integrating waiata and kapa haka, through "Marae Theatre". Although the work of Te Rākau uses marae features such ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
