RAISING THE TITANICS opens at Hawkins Theatre

MEDIA RELEASE June 25, 2010

“Quick, someone get this band an agent. A homage to the Maori Showbands of the 1960s, the Titanics have all the harmonies, musicality, glamour and humour of their heroes”

- Janet McAllister, NZ Herald

RAISING THE TITANICS: sold out at TAPAC this week, opens at Hawkins Theatre-Papakura next week. July 1-3.

Next week’s star show at Taonga Whakaari: Maori Playwrights Festival is Albert Belz’s Raising The Titanics, which comes to the Hawkins Theatre-Papakura fresh from a critically acclaimed, sold-out season at TAPAC (The Auckland Performing Arts Centre).

See Janet McAllister’s full review here:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=10654144

Written by Bruce Mason Playwriting Award winner and current Waikato University writer-in-residence Albert Belz, Raising The Titanics is directed by Raymond Hawthorne and stars Tama Waipara (Rent), Francis Kora from the band Kora, Wesley Dowdell (Outrageous Fortune), Bronwyn Turei (Go Girls), Miriama McDowell (No 2) and Faye Smythe (Shortland Street).

Raising the Titanics is a magical showpiece that journeys from the present day back to the golden age of the Maori showband era to reveal what really sunk the Titanics – perhaps the greatest Maori showband never to have existed. Somewhere beneath the oceans of music, mirth and memory lies the truth.

http://www.hawkinstheatre.co.nz. Maori Playwrights Festival is also on Facebook

Bookings: http://www.ticketek.co.nz 0800TICKETEK

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