Maranga Mai Series
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In 2022, Māori and Pasifika writers’ collective, Maranga Mai, launch their audio drama series – with the five part series featuring new writing by Tina McNicholas, Sandra Tisam, Sherilee Kahui, Teherenui Koteka and Stevie Greeks.
Written as part of writing festival Breaking Ground in Lockdown 2020 and recorded in April 2021 in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington, with a cast of over 20 actors.
Directed by celebrated Senior Māori Artist, Theatremaker and 2022 Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi Arts Laureates Hone Kouka and engineered by acclaimed Composer and Sound Producer Karnan Saba.
Maranga Mai Audio Drama Series included Assist Direction from Tāne Rolfe and Stevie Greeks.
Price: One audio drama is $5.00 or $20.00 for the series
Information on the episodes:
Sandra Tisam, Mira
Mira and her friends lie forgotten in a tin shed, reliving past tragedies while getting on each other’s nerves. The return of a familiar face, brings them back together again to continue on their journey.
Playing Length: 19.53
Sherilee Kahui, Whakaaraara
Having a baby changes everything for a woman. Your body is no longer your own, your time is not your own and your priorities shift almost instantly. These changes inevitably ripple out to your relationships. Whakaaraara shows how gentle ripples can be the early warning signs of an incoming tsunami, as one new mum struggles to stay afloat.
Playing Length: 17:02
Stevie Greeks, Grown
Ruby returns to her childhood home after the death of her estranged mother. Her hikoi takes her to a place between memory, dream and the stories her heart yearns to tell.
Playing Length: 19:02
Teherenui Koteka, Te Maunga, Te Toa e Manakia
In a world estranged from indigenous values, an offer arises forcing two cousins to decide the fate of their ancestral home.
Playing Length: 17:48
Tina McNicholas, Unlocked
Lilieta, aka Lilly, is near the end of her full and extraordinary life. Her once strong, infallible, memory has now succumbed to bouts of dementia, causing her to periodically lose her bearings. One day a sudden encounter with an object from her past unexpectedly transports her back to happier times when she was transforming the lives of others in her care.
Playing Length: 26:40
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