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- Title
- Taki Rua Theatre - Breaking Barriers
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- NZ On Screen
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- NZ On Screen
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Throughout the 1980s, humble Wellington venue The New Depot evolved into Taki Rua Theatre, a pioneering kaupapa Māori performing arts organisation. Taki Rua has overcome financial struggles, creative disputes, internal conflicts and the odd quake to become New Zealand's unofficial national Māori theatre. Director Whetū Fala's debut documentary celebrates Taki Rua's artistic legacy, and its plans for the future. In this trailer the theatre's vital contribution to Aotearoa's creative landscape ...
- Format
- Video
- Date created
- 2024
- URL
- https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/taki-rua-theatre-breaking-barriers-2024
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- theatre / taki rua theatre / wellington / wellington theatre / iconic theatres / touring company / theatre company / mt taranaki / taranaki / community theatre / schools / te reo māori / maori art / maori theatre / championing te reo / wahine toa / 1990s / 90s / 1992 / purpurawhetu / 1980s / 80s / creative culture / poneke / te whanganui-a-tara / audiences / success / activism / activist theatre / kaupapa / hui / debate / biculturalism / controversy / maori and pakeha / being maori / te ao māori / social issues / suicide / youth problems / rangatahi / whakapapa / korero / rehearsals / rehearsal space / actors / directors / playwrights / fostering te reo playwrights / playmarket / whatungarongaro / plays / generational change / the new depot theatre / maori writers / nz literature / wairua / dissention / funding / creative new zealand / funding for the arts / arts funding / kaumatua / matua / he hokina / nga tangata toa / marae / workshop / taki rua / nineties / eighties / māori theatre / mount taranaki / new zealand theatre / indigenous theatre / new depot theatre / new depot / wāhine toa / purapura whetu / māori and pākehā / māori writers / māori playwright
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