Kilimogo Productions

Kilimogo Productions is bicultural theatre collective based in Ōtepoti Dunedin that was founded in 1995 or 1996.[1][2]

Background

The founders of Kilimogo Productions include Rangimoana Taylor, Cindy Diver and Hilary Halba.[2][3] The intention was to look at theatre from both a Māori and Pākehā perspective. Founding member Taylor says of this in an interview with Halba, "I sometimes think we go quite painfully, as equals, but we discuss everything."[2]

Productions

Ngā Tangata Toa

Nga Tangata Toa (1997) by Hone Kouka.[4] The play started with the Māori ritual of a karanga and haka pōwhiri blurring reality for the audience with this experience that bring a host group and a visitor group together and many in the audience would have experienced in different settings, overall the structure of the play was formed with the framework of a meeting on a marae.[2]

Whaea Kairau

Two years after presenting Nga Tangata Toa Kilimogo presented Rangimoana Taylor’s brothers play, Whaea Kairau: Mother Hundred-Eater (July 1999) by Apirana Taylor at the Otago Museum.[5][6] This play references Brecht's play Mother Courage and Her Children. In Apirina's re-telling the central character is an Irish women in New Zealand during battles and war at the beginning of settler colonisation starting in the 1840s.[7]

Title Author Venue Year Notes Ref.
Nga Tangata Toa Hone Kouka Globe Theatre (Dunedin) 1997 (Jul) [8]
Nga Tangata Toa Hone Kouka Playhouse Theatre (Timaru) 1997 (Dec) [8]
Tuatara Allen Hall Theatre (Dunedin) 1998 [8]
Whaea Kairau:

Mother Hundred Eater

 Apirana Taylor Otago Museum (Dunedin) 1999 [8]
Mauri Tu Globe Theatre (Dunedin) 2003 [9][8]
Homefires Hone Kouka Fortune Studio (Dunedin) 2001 [1]
Blue Smoke Rawiri Paratene, Murray Lynch Ruby in the Dust (Dunedin) 2002 In partnership with

Wow! Productions

 [10]

References
  1. "Hilary Halba". Otago University. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
  2. Maufort, Marc (2007). Performing aotearoa New Zealand theatre and drama in an age of transition. ISBN 978-90-5201-359-6. OCLC 230201315.
  3. "Interact Drama". Theatre Works. Retrieved 11 July 2021.
  4. Grace-Smith, Briar. "Consolidating Māori theatre, 1990s onwards". Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
  5. Halba, Hilary (1 November 2015). "Poetry, politics, the past and the present: Interweaving Maori postcolonial theatre with Bertolt Brecht in Kilimogo's production of Apirana Taylor's Whaea Kairau: Mother Hundred-Eater". Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies. 3 (2): 133–148. doi:10.1386/nzps.3.2.133_1.
  6. Looser, Diana (31 October 2014). Remaking Pacific Pasts: History, Memory, and Identity in Contemporary Theater from Oceania. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-4775-3.
  7. "Taylor, Apirana". Read NZ Te Pou Maramura. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
  8. "Theatre Aotearoa Database". Theatre Aotearoa Database. University of Otago. Retrieved 11 July 2021.
  9. "Mauri Tu / Tatai". Globe Theatre Dunedin. Retrieved 11 July 2021.
  10. "Past Shows | Wow Productions". Wow Productions | Premiere Dunedin Theatre. Retrieved 11 July 2021.
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