The Haka Party Incident | Tauranga Arts Festival 2023

The last New Zealand war took place in Auckland in 1979. It lasted three minutes.

The Haka Party Incident resurrects the eventful day when a group of University of Auckland engineering students rehearsing their annual tradition of a mock haka are confronted by the activist group, He Taua.

The incident sent ripples through the nation and changed race relations in New Zealand forever.

Crafted by film-maker and theatre director Katie Wolfe (The Mooncake and the Kumara, Waru, Artefact), The Haka Party Incident is verbatim theatre that innovatively combines documentary and kapa haka to thrilling effect. Provocative, resonant and unforgettable, The Haka Party Incident is a not-to-be-missed theatre event.

“Masterfully brings to life a bold act of resistance…. intensely funny, to heartbreakingly sad in a single beat” THEATREVIEW

Presented as part of the 2023 Tauranga Arts Festival, on from 19 - 29 October.