The Haka Party Incident show programme

THE

HAKA PARTY INCIDENT BY

KATIE WOLFE

He pou atua, he pou whenua, he pou tangata.

Ko Waitematā te moana Ko Waikokota te whenua.

Ko Te Pou Whakamaharatanga mō Māui Tikitiki a Taranga te tohu o te kaha, o te kōrero, o te whakapapa o tēnei wāhi, o tēnei whare.

Nau mai e te tī, e te tā ki te whare kōrero, ki te whare whakaari o ASB ki te tahatika o te moana.

Whakarongo ki ngā kōrero, mātakihia te whakaaturanga e tuku ana i ngā kōrero o ngā rangi kua pahure, hei ara ki te rangimārie, ki te māramatanga, ki te wairua tau.

Mauri tau, mauri ora!

The symbols of support, of strength and of guardianship stand fast and proud.

The waters of Waitematā ebb and flow against the shores here at Waikokota, the land upon which we stand.

The pou of rememberance to Māui Tikitiki a Taranga stands tall as a beacon of courage, of stories passed down and of the history that connects us all to this place and to this space.

We welcome you all from near and far to this house of stories, to the ASB Waterfront Theatre.

We encourage you to listen to the narratives and to watch this production that tells of the not-too-distant history as a pathway to understanding, enlightenment and harmony.

Mauri tau, mauri ora!

Te Pou Whakamaumāharatanga mo Māui Tikitiki a Tāranga The Memorial Post of Māui the Topknot of Tāranga Robert Jahnke (Ngati Porou) 2016 Laminated totara, corten steel Proudly commissioned by Auckland Theatre Company for ASB Waterfront Theatre

KAPA — ENSEMBLE Roimata Fox, Aidan O’Malley, Neenah Dekkers-Reihana, Richard Te Are, Patrick Tafa, Lauren Gibson, Jarred Blakiston

NGĀ RINGATOI — CREATIVE Writer and Director — Katie Wolfe Set Designer — John Verryt Lighting Designer — Jo Kilgour Sound Designer and Musical Director — Kingsley Spargo Costume Designer — Alison Reid Kaiako Kapa Haka/Kaitito Haka — Nīkau Balme Assistant Director — Whetu Silver Assistant Writer — Catherine Grealish

NGĀ KAIWHAKAHAERE HANGA — PRODUCTION Head of Production — Jess Leslie Stage Manager — Catherine Grealish Props Manager — Magdalena Hoult Technical Manager — Ellis Thorpe Assistant Stage Manager — Teiaro Taikato Sound Operator — Thomas Lambert Lighting and AV Operator — Zach Howells Documentary Producer — Katie Wolfe Documentary Crew — Dave Murray, Yves Simard, Lise Cook, Colleen Brennan, Jo Raj, Aroha Rawson, Kahukore Bell, Sean O’Connor 2

Verbatim Editor — Kingsley Spargo and Harley Campbell Casting — Lynne Cardy Teaching Artists — Acacia O'Connor, Tuakai Ohai and Ariaana Osborne Audio Description — Nicola Owen from Audio Described Aotearoa NZSL Interpreting and Signing — Kelly Hodgins from Platform Interpreting Photographer — Andi Crown Videographer — Lise Cook Company Manager Interim — Eliza Josephson-Rutter Production Runner — Rose Herda Kaimanaaki — Aroha Rawson Te Reo Translator — Amiria Stirling Te Reo proofer (programme) — Clayton Cook Te Reo and Tikanga Māori Consultants — Ataahua Papa and Eynon Delamere Te Ahurei Toi o Tāmaki / Auckland Arts Festival 2021

The Haka Party Incident was originally commissioned by Auckland Theatre Company, Auckland, New Zealand.

AUCKLAND THEATRE COMPANY AND TASMAN RAY WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE FOLLOWING FOR THEIR HELP WITH THIS PRODUCTION: Isaac Hanson, Matt Eller, Katie Melody Rogers, Lucas Haugh, Ana Scotney, Munford Construction, MJF Lighting, Fat Lighting, BounceNZ, Search and Destroy, Arena Flooring, Rockshop, Tony McMaster, Daryl Tapsell, Janet Lilo, Tony Downing, Jol Mulholland, Oscar Peress, Glen Ruske, Ngaronoa Renata, Brian Potiki, Roma Potiki, Mere Arihi Pipi-Takoko, Tanya Wilkinson, Tharron Bloomfield from Auckland Museum, Hepi Mita from Ngā Taonga Sound and Vision.

Thank you to the actors and crew from The Navigators development season of The Haka Party Incident: Aroha Rawson, Andrew Malmo, Sam Clavis, Johnny Bright, Kimo Houltham, Fasitua Amosa, Kate McGill, Robert Hunte, Eliza Josephson-Rutter, Aaron Paap, Josh Bond, Nicole Sarah.

The Haka Party Incident is the second Auckland Theatre Company mainstage production of 2021. Originally scheduled to open on 30 July 2020, due to COVID-19 it has now been rescheduled twice to finally open on 31 March 2021 at ASB Waterfront Theatre.

WARNING: please note that this production demonstrates historical examples of how haka and Te Reo Māori were incorrectly used and performed in the past.

The production is approximately 2 hours without an interval.

Please remember to switch off all mobile phones and noise-emitting devices.

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Katie Wolfe Writer and Director of The Haka Party Incident

‘Ki ngā kaimahi, ki ngā kaitautoko katoa kua hāpai i tēnei mahi, tēnei ngā mihi e rere ana ki a koutou.

The opportunity to write this work began with the Auckland Theatre Company The Navigators programme in 2017. To be able to drag out of the bottom drawer a story that intrigued me from the moment I first came across it many years prior and present it in verbatim form has been a journey I have treasured. To all the cast and crew of the 2017 ATC The Navigators season, nei rā aku mihi.

To the entire ATC company, cast and crew of the 2021 The Haka Party Incident season, we have been through so much together to finally bring this work to the stage. The design and production collaboration has been brilliant; the mix of longtime creative relationships with new collaborations has come together to make the work so much more than I ever imagined. To the cast especially I am extremely 4

grateful for all your hard work.

I have asked so much of you to realise the hugely technical verbatim performance as well as learning so many haka and song, and for some of you, this being the first time working in the reo, makes this even more of a huge achievement to be so proud of.

But most importantly to all the people involved in the actual Haka Party Incident who have allowed me to interview them and tell their story – I owe you all an enormous debt of gratitude.

To He Taua, those connected to the University of Auckland (UOA) in 1979, the court case and race relations enquiry, nei rā aku mihi.

To the students from UOA Engineering 1979. It was always going to be hard to relive this astonishing incident from your youthful, free-wheeling, 70s days.

I was asking you to reach back 40 years to an event that had been swept aside, and for many that involved grappling with questions and emotions around the incident

for the first time. Your generosity and honesty are an inspiration to me and I know you will in turn inspire those who gather to this Whare Tapere to hear your story.

Thank you Cath Dunphy and the UOA Engineering Faculty for your openess and support.

Engineering with its scope, variance and intrinsic relationship with this whenua contributes much to this work. To Lise Cook for documenting the process and Shane Bosher for constant and sage counsel. To my partner in Tasman Ray; Tim Balme for support above and beyond. To my whānau, thank you for being my strength through this kaupapa.

Ki te rōpu o He Taua. Tēnei te mihi atu. Nā runga i ā koutou mahi whakahirahira, o koutou kaha, o koutou māia kua ora ai te iwi Māori. Mai i te ihinga ake o te wairua, te ohonga ake o te ngākau, kua ea ngā kupu i ōhāki “Ka whawhai tonu mātou”. Koia kua rangatira ai, a He Taua. Your work started in the early 1970s

and continues to this very day.

Your kaha/strength and māia/ perseverance to uplift our communities, to protect our Reo and Tikanga is immeasurable mahi that must be celebrated always.

I am a Māori mother who has been able to offer her tamariki, here in Auckland, a brilliant full immersion Te Reo Māori education. I make clear links between the battle fought that day and the incredible opportunities that have enriched my children’s lives.

I dedicate this season of The Haka Party Incident to Miriama Rauhihi-Ness.

It was Miriama who brought He Taua together for this project and her kupu/words that we hear last in the play: Ka ora ai te ao Māori I te tinana, hinengaro, wairua Ka ora e He Taua Ko te iwi Māori e ngunguru nei I au, au, aue ha Aue hi 5

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Colin McColl Creative Director 2021 Season

Good things are worth waiting for!

In 2017, the Auckland Theatre Company creative team identified three people whose work we admired who would offer some fresh thinking and who we thought would offer different perspectives on what performance can be.

Film and theatre director Katie Wolfe joined choreographer Malia Johnston and director and image maker Kate Parker as our three inaugural Associate Artists to create three works for our The Navigators season. Katie Wolfe’s project The Haka Party Incident immediately spoke to ATC’s kaupapa of presenting big-hearted stories that matter to the people of Tāmaki Makaurau. Here was an incident that happened in this city, an incident that was over in less than five minutes but like a pebble thrown into a still lake – the ripples it caused reached much further – challenging institutional racism in this country.

Katie’s work, based on extensive interviews she has conducted with all parties involved in the incident, is presented as verbatim theatre.

The actors are, in a way, conduits – they don't colour their retelling with actorly artistry; they breathe when their interviewee breathes, they lose their train of thought, they scramble their grammar and tenses, they mispronounce words, they laugh, they cry only when their interviewee does - and the effect is compelling, electrifying, immediate and REAL. We’ve been trying to get The Haka Party Incident back on stage since 2017. We managed to find a gap in Katie’s busy film schedule in 2020 - only to be shut down by the COVID crisis – so it’s a great pleasure to be finally presenting it in 2021. I’m sure you’ll agree it’s a cultural conversation worth having.

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Ngā Māngai Voices of Documentary

Hilda Hilda Harawira, He Taua and Student University of Auckland

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Miriama

Miriama Rauhihi-Ness, He Taua

Zena

Zena Tamanui, He Taua

Ronnie

Veronica Leef, He Taua

Mary

Mary Povey, He Taua

Georgina

Georgina Walker-Grace, He Taua

Wiki

Wiki Tawhara, He Taua

Ben

Ben Dalton, He Taua

Hone

Hone Harawira, He Taua

James

James Pasene , He Taua

Brian

Brian Lepou, He Taua

Len

Len Nukunuku, He Taua

Andrew

Andrew Leef, He Taua

Joseph

Joseph Leef, He Taua

Tigilau

Tingilau Ness, Polynesian Panthers

Ian

Ian Bishop, Engineering Student UOA

Simon

Simon Faire, Engineering Student UOA

Brent

Brent Meeken, Engineering Student UOA

Simon

Simon Woodward, Engineering Student UOA

Andrew

Andrew Stewart, Engineering Student UOA

Te Rangi

Te Rangi Hīroa, kaitito/composer ‘Ākarana’ (1924)

Eruera

Eruera Stirling, expert witness for the defence ‘Police vs Dalton and Others’

Kīngi

Sir Kīngi Īhaka, court translator for Eruera Stirling

Des

Des Mathen, Engineering Student UOA (1955)

Barry

Barry Davidson, Engineering Student UOA (1967)

Janet Janet Roth, President of University of Auckland Student Association Mitzi Mitzi Nairn, Auckland Committee on Racism and Discrimination Anne

Anne Salmond, Lecturer in Social Anthropology and Māori Studies UOA

Kathy

Kathy McRae, Quad Forum Attendee, Student UOA

Karen

Karen Bishop, Quad Forum Attendee, Student UOA

David

David Merrit, Craccum Editor

Alan

Alan Blackburn, Auckland Race Relations Office

Vapi Vapnierka Kupenga, lawyer for defence ‘Police vs Dalton and Others’ Sian

Sian Elias, lawyer for defence ‘Police vs Dalton and Others’

David David Morris, lawyer for prosecution ‘Police vs Dalton and Others’ Richard

Richard Harman, journalist for Eye Witness News

Police A

Anonymous, on-duty police officer Auckland Central May 1st 1979

Police B

Anonymous, on-duty police officer Auckland Central May 1st 1979 9

Kapa Ensemble

ROIMATA FOX

AIDAN O’MALLEY

ROIMATA FOX Ngāti Porou, Rongomaiwahine

Born and raised on the East Coast, Roimata Fox moved to Auckland at the age of 19 to study film for a year and is blessed to still be working today. She has worked on such films as Waru (2017) and Muru (2020), and had the pleasure of working with Katie Wolfe in three seasons of The Ring INZ. Her passion has always been the stage and she has been blessed to work in such productions as Purapurawhetu (2010), The Māori Troilus and Cressida (2012), Much Ado About Nothing (2019) and Witi’s Wāhine (2020).

AIDAN O’MALLEY Aidan O’Malley studied theatre at Otago University and graduated from the Actors'

NEENAH DEKKERS-REIHANA

Program in 2019 with a mad passion to play and create. Aidan had the opportunity to work with the cast and crew of Auckland Theatre Company’s The Miracle Worker over Zoom last year, so for him to be here on stage for The Haka Party Incident and being a part of telling this story brings him huge joy. May we all learn a lot.

NEENAH DEKKERS-REIHANA Ngāi Tu Te Auru, Ngā Puhi

Neenah Dekkers-Reihana was born in Raglan, grew up around the Waikato and then moved to Wellington with her whānau. Neenah has worked with Katie Wolfe on Anahera and The Mooncake and the Kūmara, winning her the Dorothy McKegg actress of the year award in 2017.

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RICHARD TE ARE

PATRICK TAFA

RICHARD TE ARE Ngāti Kahungunu Ki Heretaunga and Tūhoe

Richard Te Are is an actor, director, and theatre deviser from New Zealand. He is a graduate of Toi Whakaari New Zealand Drama School. Since graduating in 2017, Richard has gone on to play various roles, notably his portrayal of Teina Pora in In Dark Places. He has landed roles in international features shooting in both Australia and Fiji, and also made his UK debut in Working Titles BBC mini-series The Luminaries in 2020.

Alongside his film credits, Richard loves to keep the flame lit for theatre. At drama school he devised a hit solo show, Super Maori Boy which he is currently turning into a web series.

In 2019–2020 he had his first professional theatre show working with Nightsong Productions’ Mr. Red Light. Richard is thrilled to be working with Auckland Theatre Company on The Haka Party Incident as it aligns deeply with the reason he loves acting.

"I’m most interested in creating truthful work that will inspire the rangatahi of today to believe in themselves and help change the world for the better."

PATRICK TAFA Patrick Tafa is Samoan/Scottish. Representing Mulifanua, Samoa and his hometown Waipu.

Patrick joined Massive Theatre Company at 16 years old after doing one of their workshops.

He has been with the company ever since. He has featured in the company's devised works The Wholehearted and Half Of The Sky. His recent work includes 48 Nights On Hope Street with Auckland Theatre Company and season 6 of Westside.

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LAUREN GIBSON

JARRED BLAKISTON

LAUREN GIBSON Lauren Gibson is a graduate of Victoria University (Bachelor of Arts in Theatre and Media Studies, 2011) and The Actors’ Program (2012). Her theatre credits include: Anne Boleyn, The Heretic, Sons (Auckland Theatre Company), Blackbird, August: Osage County, The ACB with Honora Lee (Circa Theatre), The Generation of Z (Royale Productions), 13, Elevator, Luncheon (The Basement Theatre), Jumpy (Fortune Theatre), and When The Rain Stops Falling and Exit The King (The Court Theatre). Lauren won the 2011 Most Promising Female Newcomer of the Year at Wellingtons’ Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards for her role in August: Osage County.

She is very happy to be back home after five years in London.

JARRED BLAKISTON Jarred Blakiston is a 2016 graduate of The Actors' Program, but began his professional career many years earlier, aged 12, with a role on New Zealand’s long-running soap opera Shortland Street. Since then, he has appeared on screen internationally in shows such as Power Rangers, The New Legends of Monkey, The Shannara Chronicles and, most recently, Amazon Prime’s The Wilds. Closer to home, he has appeared in Ablaze, The Gulf and When We Go To War. The Haka Party Incident marks Jarred's professional theatre debut after last appearing on stage in his graduation showcase Vernon God Little at the Basement Theatre, and he is very excited to be collaborating with the amazing team of creatives on this unique and challenging work.

Ringatoi Creative

KATIE WOLFE Ngāti Mutunga, Ngāti Tama

Writer and Director Katie Wolfe is well known to audiences as a director, writer and actor who works across theatre, film and television in both drama and documentary. Katie was the winner of the inaugural WIFT Mana Wāhine Award. Her most recent documentaries are He Māngai Wāhine and for the Artefact series - Te Hokinga Mai and Road to War. Katie was one of the directors of the acclaimed film Waru. Her films Redemption, This Is Her and Kawa (an adaptation of Witi Ihimaera’s Nights in the Gardens of Spain) garnered many awards internationally.

Katie directed The Mooncake and the Kūmara for the 2015 Auckland Arts Festival and notable other NZ works are Rendered for Auckland Theatre Company, Anahera for Circa, Luncheon for Basement and The Women for Silo. Katie portrays the popular character Nanny Fanny for Maori Television’s hit comedy The Ring INZ and returns to TVNZ screens this year in the landmark action series Vegas. For The Haka Party Incident Katie received three Adam NZ Play Awards including Best Māori Playwright and the Dean Parker Award.

JOHN VERRYT Set Designer John Verryt began designing for performance in 1979, training at Theatre Corporate and Mercury

Theatre. John works regularly, as a freelancer, for many of New Zealand’s foremost performing arts companies, including ATC, Silo Theatre, Indian Ink, Red Leap Theatre, The Large Group, Nightsong, New Zealand Opera, Douglas Wright Dance Company, Michael Parmenter, Malia Johnston and Atamira, Okareka and Black Grace Dance Companies. Recent Auckland Theatre Company shows designed by John include Once on Chunuk Bair, Jesus Christ Superstar, Rupert, The Navigators, Rendered and Astroman.

JO KILGOUR Lighting Designer Jo Kilgour is an Auckland-based lighting designer and technical/production director with extensive experience both nationally and internationally. Her recent lighting design credits include Semele (NZ Opera), Once (Peach Theatre Company), Six Degrees of Separation; Filthy Business; Under the Mountain; Nell Gwynn; Amadeus; The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (ATC), Sigan; The Fibonacci; Matter; Brouhaha; Geography of an Archipelago; In Transit (The New Zealand Dance Company), Fringe Town; Rushes (Malia Johnston), Leeches (Aloalii Tapu & Friends) and La Traviata; Cav+Pag (Festival Opera). Jo’s lighting design (along with Rowan Pierce’s AV design) for Malia Johnston’s Rushes won the Auckland Fringe 2017 Production Design (Lighting & AV) award.

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KATIE WOLFE

JOHN VERRYT

ALISON REID Costume Designer Alison Reid is a designer, collector and curator of vintage and antique objects, textiles, and accoutrement. This is her third costume design for Auckland Theatre Company. She created The Cross Street Market and is the proprietor of Search and Destroy on Ponsonby Road specialising in vintage denim, rock n’ roll, French, Japanese and New Zealand work-wear, vintage homewares and pottery. Her inspiration is drawn from annual buying trips to Tokyo and San Francisco. Alison has exhibited her extensive Crown Lynn Colour Glaze Collection in Gus Fisher Gallery Auckland and City Gallery Wellington.

KINGSLEY SPARGO Sound Designer Kingsley Spargo is renowned for leaving audiences mesmerised with music that pulls at the heart. His recent compositions include narratives around yearning and the geometry of life, and these beautifully-crafted songs draw on personal life experiences. RNZ reviewer William Dart describes his 2019 album Chasing Spirits as ‘a bit like a trip to an all-star cocktail lounge’.

Spargo has delighted audiences alongside luminaries Don McGlashan, Tim Finn, Violent Femmes, SJD, and recently with the inimitable Witi Ihimaera. But he is also known for working

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JO KILGOUR

ALISON REID

across theatre and free improvised music in his collaborations with poet Courtney Sina Meredith, dance company Black Grace (Guerilla Collection), composer Eve de Castro-Robinson, and his pūmoana can even be heard on the Dalai Lama’s album Inner World. On Chasing Spirits, Spargo teams up with pedal steel and electric guitarist Neil Watson (The Finn Brothers, Tami Neilson) and double bassist Chris Orange, whose pedigree spans the golden era of 70s Auckland punk (Terrorways, The Features) to free jazz in Japan. Guest appearances on the album include jazz pianist Alan Brown (Bluetrain, Nathan Haines), Courtney Sina Meredith on vocals, and bonafide Kiwi rock guitar legend Harry Lyon (Hello Sailor, Coup D’État).

NĪKAU BALME

Ngāti Mutunga, Ngāti Tama

Kaiārahi Kapa Haka / Kaitito Haka Nīkau Balme is a Year 11 student at Ngā Puna O Waiorea, Western Springs College. He has grown up in a full immersion Te Ao Māori education. He is a passionate participant in all aspects of kapa haka and currently is a performer in his school kapa of Ngā Puna o Waiōrea as they prepare for their Polyfest campaign. The Haka Party Incident is his first foray into both theatre and tutoring in this production. Nīkau is also Katie’s son.

KINGSLEY SPARGO

NĪKAU BALMESILVER WHETU-ITI DOREEN

WHETU SILVER

Ngāti Pakahi ki Whangaroa, Ngāti Kahu, Ngāpuhi

Assistant Director Whetu-Iti Doreen Silver is a multidisciplinary artist, practitioner and mother that comes from a strong matriarchal lineage. She has worked extensively in the arts and event industry as a practitioner, facilitator, and creative collaborator for the past 15 years. Central to her life and mahi is listening and being guided

by Ngā Atua wāhine and her tūpuna, which activated her to co-create alongside the wāhine in her whānau Te Whare Tapu o Ngā Hine, a kaupapa and space that reclaims, restores, and returns the balance of te mana o te wāhine through wānanga, ritual performance and wairua practice. Whetu has contributed to the following kaupapa as key creative; HINE, Te Mana o Hinehau, My Seven Uncles, Mahuika!, All Good, and Māori Television Te Iwa o Matariki digital series. Whetu believes that the very act of revealing the kaupapa of The Haka Party Incident clears and creates a space for Māori to retell and rewrite the narratives and truths of our people and place as the kaitiaki of this whenua tapu, Aotearoa.

Mauri ora, Mauri oho, Mauri tau!

WHETU SILVER

CATHERINE GREALISH

CATHERINE GREALISH Assistant Writer Catherine Grealish is from Donegal in Ireland and has lived in Aotearoa New Zealand for two years. She studied Drama at Ulster University, writes short stories as a hobby and shares them on her blog. She has worked as a stage manager, a lighting designer and a technician.

She currently works as a technician at Raye Freedman Arts Centre. She has worked in the stage management team for Pop Up Globe’s Romeo & Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing (2019), Richard III, Taming of the Shrew (2018), ATC's Black Lover and Winding Up tour, and for Terra Nova Productions, C21 Theatre Company, Young at Art, and Walk The Plank. She also worked as a scenic assistant on Emilia (2020). In Belfast NI, Catherine worked as a technical manager at the Rainbow Factory School of Performing Arts and a theatre technician at The MAC. "Working on The Haka Party Incident has been incredibly rewarding. I’ve learnt so much about Māori culture, and I hope to continue that learning after this process. Working closely on the script with Katie has been a new challenge and one that I’ve really enjoyed. This is the first verbatim play I have worked on. I can see the importance of it, speaking the same words as the storytellers makes the piece truly authentic.

Being a part of creating new work, especially this important story, has been a privilege."

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HAKA AND SONG Tau Ka Tau Traditional Waikato Haka Ākarana Auckland University College Haka by Te Rangi Hiroa (1924) Akarana The Ardmore Engineering School Haka, Private Collection, Des Mathen (1955) A Ka Rana Engineering Haka, Private Collection, Iain Neill (1979) In the Past Maranga Mai (Activist Theatre Group, 1979) Private Collection, Brian Potiki Hey Māori People Maranga Mai (Activist Theatre Group, 1979) Private Collection, Brian Potiki Imagine John Lennon (1971) Arrangement by Kingsley Spargo We are We are The Engineers The Ardmore Engineers Song The Battle Hymn of the Republic Lyrics by Julia Ward Howe (1862) Arrangement by Kingsley Spargo Ka Mate Composed by Ngāti Toa Rangatira Chief, Te Rauparaha Me Hoki Whakamuri Kia Anga Whakamua The University of Auckland Faculty of Engineering Haka by Tapeta Wehi (2019) He Taua Original haka written for The Haka Party Incident by Nīkau Balme (2021) 16

ĀKARANA Auckland University College Haka 1924 Te Rangi Hiroa

Ākarana Hei

Auckland – Here

Tena i pakia

Now for the beat

Tena i takahia

Now for the stamp

Ringaringa tōrona kei waho

Hands stretched out

mau tonu

And kept there

Tau ka tau

Hei

We are here, we are here - Hei

Tau ka tau

Hei

They are here, They are here – Hei

Tau ka tau ki Ākarana

They have come to see Auckland

Whangaia mai ra!

What can they say?

nge, nge, nge, ara tu

Nothing, nothing, nothing at all

Whangaia mai ra!

What can they do?

nge, nge, nge,

Nothing, nothing, nothing

ara tu, ara ta, ara tau

Absolutely nothing at all

Ākarana ka riri!

Auckland is arrayed for battle!

Homai ra o kupu, o toa

Come with your wise men

Kia wetewetea, kia tukitukia

Come with your best

Ākarana

Hi

That they may be confounded

Ākarana

Hei

That they may bewildered

Ākarana

Hi, Hei, Ha

Auckland Hi Auckland Hei Auckland Hi, Hei, Ha

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HE TAUA Original haka written for The Haka Party Incident by Nīkau Balme 2021

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He Taua Ki te mura o te ahi He Taua Ki te tohi o Tūmatauenga He Taua Ki te tākiritanga o te ata ki runga Tāmaki e tū nei E te tī, e te tā Hi ha E te tā, e te tī Haramai ra, haramai ra, haramai ra Tēnei ko Tāmaki Herehere Tāmaki Ararau Kua whakawhenua te tangata Kua whakamana te Reo me ōna tikanga Hei te pō, hei te ao Te whakamāori e He kaikiri, he Taniwha e Hōmai ra o kupu o toa kia wetewetea Wetewetea, wetewetea Whakamanatia te tangata e Ka Mate Ka ora Ka Mate Ka ora Ka mate, ka mate Ka ora ai te ao Māori I te tinana, hinengaro, wairua Ka ora e Tau ka Tau Hi Tau ka Tau Hi Tau ka Tau Hi Tau ka Tau Hi Tau ka tau He Taua!

Ko te iwi Māori e ngunguru nei I au, au, aue ha Aue hi

He Taua Is to the heat of battle He Taua Is blessed by the powers of man and warfare He Taua Is to the dawn breaking upon Auckland, arrayed for battle To the many the masses To all walks of life Come, come upon Auckland as one, Auckland of plenty Auckland who has grounded people’s belief in their land Who has empowered Te Reo Māori and its customs Day and night eternally Māori powers onwards To the monster known as racism Give it here so it can be shredded Ripped apart into nothing at all To empower the people onwards again There is death And there is life But despite the death Māori culture will survive Mentally, physically, and spiritually It survives onwards We are here We are present Here we stand Stand as one Stand as one, Arrayed for battle A war party He Taua The Māori culture shakes the ground And there it is There!

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What is Verbatim Theatre?

by Vanessa Preston

“We are besieged with a constant barrage of information and different media platforms all barking for our attention and… the integrity of that information is unclear.

Verbatim theatre offers an antidote to all that and it's at its best when it offers a voice to the voiceless.”

Robin Belfield, Telling the Truth: How to Make Verbatim Theatre 20

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The Haka Party Incident is ‘verbatim theatre’ - the script compiled from live interviews and recreated by the actors exactly as they were spoken by the original interviewees.

This production goes one step further and uses a ‘received verbatim’ technique - you will see earphones in the ears of the actors as they listen to the real voices from recordings and archived footage, re-creating the dialogue on stage complete with every ‘um’, ‘ah’, and pause as it really happened.

Other well-known examples of verbatim theatre include the plays My Name Is Rachel Corrie, based on the diaries and emails of activist Rachel Corrie who was killed by an Israeli soldier, and

The Laramie Project, about the reaction to the 1998 murder of University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard. Broadway musical Come From Away, set a week after 9/11 tells the true story of what transpired when 38 planes were ordered to land unexpectedly in a tiny town in Canada, using real interviews from the town’s residents.

A pioneering New Zealand example is the 1993 play Verbatim about violent offending, by Miranda Harcourt and William Brandt.

This objective journalistic approach offers us, the audiences of The Haka Party Incident, a source of uncontaminated truth; the different perspectives of those who were there in 1979.

“This objective journalistic approach offers us... a source of uncontaminated truth...”

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS

ADMINISTRATION

Chair: Vivien Bridgwater Karen Fistonich Isaac Hikaka Katie Jacobs Derek McCormack Graeme Pinfold Alison Quigan QSM

Executive Administrator: Natasha Pearce Development Coordinator: Natalya Mandich-Dohnt ASB WATERFRONT THEATRE Head of Venue Operations: Sharon Byrne Events & Sales Manager: Tracey Rowe

LEADERSHIP

Acting Events & Sales Manager: Lucy Gardner

Chief Executive Officer: Jonathan Bielski

Front of House Manager: Ralph Corke

Executive Director: Anna Cameron

Ticketing Manager: Gary Barker Acting Ticketing Manager: Lexi Clare

CREATIVE

Ticketing Administrator: Bruce Brown

Creative Director 2021 Season: Colin McColl ONZM

Venue Technical Manager: Johnny Chen

Associate Director 2021: Lynne Cardy

Front of House Supervisors: Rachael Yielder and Gary Hofman

Literary Manager: Philippa Campbell Schools & Youth Coordinator: Billie Staples PRODUCTION Head of Production: Jess Leslie Company Manager: Elaine Walsh Acting Company Manager: Eliza Josephson-Rutter MARKETING, COMMUNICATIONS & PARTNERSHIPS Head of Marketing & Partnerships: Natasha Gordon Marketing & Audience Development Manager: Nicola Brown Graphic Designer: Wanda Tambrin Publicist & Content Producer: Vanessa Preston

Senior Venue Technician: Antonia Richardson

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A fresh approach to ICT managed services

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