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Writer: JOEL TE TEIRA
Director: KEEGAN BRAGG
Performers: JOE DEKKERS-REIHANA & JORDAN SELWYN
Cover: CAM TĪTOKOWARU VENN
Dramaturg: TAINUI TUKIWAHO
Set and Costume Designer: ZOË ROUSE
Lighting Designer: HARRIE HOGAN
Composer and Sound Designer: ETHAN HUNTER
Fight Director: LYNDALL GRANT
Mau Rākau Consultant: CAM TĪTOKOWARU VENN
Stage Manager: LEXIE JAENSCH
ASM/Wardrobe Supervisor: STEFAN JAROSZ-SETIAWAN
Creative Producer and Production Manager: BRANDON PAPE
Creative Producer and Marketing: CAMERON STEENS
Friendship, grief and forgiveness collide against the backdrop of a hunters cabin in rural Aotearoa, New Zealand.
Tāne & Isaac return to a cabin from their youth on the anniversary of their best friend's passing. They plan to drink, sing and reminisce. But with the Maunga looming over their heads and hearts, can the two men finally confront the truth?
This riveting, original Māori drama tests the friendships of men and the relationship one has with their own history.
"Harrie Hogan’s subtle calibration of the play’s lighting is a masterclass in accumulation and release, mirrored by the creeping unease of Ethan Hunter’s sound design." - The Age
"The transcendent soundscape at the outset of the show brought us to the wilderness, and Ethan Hunter’s sound design throughout kept the remote setting ever present in the stakes of the piece." - Stage Door
Darren Gill, La Mama Courthouse, 2026
