Kilimogo Productions is bicultural theatre collective based in Ōtepoti Dunedin that was founded in 1995 or 1996. [1] [2]
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]
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]
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 | [10] |