Creative Team
Performed at Te Papa Soundings Theatre
Co-Produced by Taki Rua Productions and the New Zealand Festival 2000
Written By Briar Grace-Smith
Written by Briar Grace-Smith
Director Colin McColl
Set & Costume Designers - Mark McEntyre & Diane Prince
Lighting Designer - Lisa Maule
Music And Sound - Himiona Grace
Dramaturg - Philippa Campbell
Production Manager - Robyn Tearle
Stage Manager - Ross Gibbs
Assistant Stage Manager - Tasha James
Lighting Operator - Juliette Howard
Execuctive Producers for New Zealand Festival 2000 Carla van Zon &
Alex Reedijk
Kaumatua - Dick Grace
Karanga Haka/Waiata Tutor - Tere Harrison
Cast:
George Henare, Katie Wolfe, Rena Owen, John Katipa,
Karl Drinkwater, Himiona Grace Junior, Teina Stacey.
Date & Times
Te Papa Soundings Theatre, Wellington
Haruru Mai
Following the success of Purapurawhetu, Briar Grace-Smith's eagerly anticipated new work won acclaim at the 2000 International Festival of the Arts.
Silas, a Maori Battalion veteran who returns home after 20 years of wandering, haunted by his role in the World War II Italian campaign.
Seeking comfort in the people and place of his birth, he is bewitched by the young and troubled Paloma. But the revelation of a long-kept battlefield secret unleashes a daughter’s vengeance and the wrath of a ghost of war.
Described by The Listener as ‘the play New Zealand has been waiting for’, Haruru mai is a potent love story of filial retribution and the human scars left by our history.
Weaving together redemption and revenge, past and present, Haruru Mai is a potent New Zealand story of ill-starred love, filial retribution and the human scars left by our history.