Playmarket Metro Playreading Series

MEDIA RELEASE
11/10/2010

Playmarket Metro Playreading Series

NGA POU WAHINE by Briar Grace-Smith

This final episode in the highly successful Playmarket Metro Playreading Series is not to be missed - a semi-staged reading of Briar Grace-Smith’s award winning play Nga Pou Wahine.

The story of Kura, a tomato sauce factory worker who dreams of escape, sweeps from factory floor to the world of her ancestor, Waiora. Woven in the history and words of the most important people in her life is the truth about who she is and the circumstances surrounding her birth twenty-one years ago. And piece-by-piece we put it together with her.

This award winning play premiered in 1995, the same year Briar won the Bruce Mason Playwrights Award. Nga Pou Wahine is one of thirteen plays by Briar that have received numerous productions and toured widely. Briar’s work includes Purapurawhetu and screenplays for The Strength of Water and Kaitangata Twitch.
Directed by Grace Hoet (Songmakers Chair) and starring Miriama McDowell (This Is Not My Life, Raising The Titanics) and Waimihi Hotere (Bluesmoke, The Man who Lost his Head).

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