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Iaheto Ah Hi

IAHETO AH HI  

 Nationality:    New Zealand
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below is a list of Iaheto Ah Hi's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Digital Winds         Plantation         Tautai

Digital Winds

Synopsis:
Digital Winds is a youth oriented play that has a tragic love story at its core. So yes expect selfies, hip hop, metal, b-boying, soulful singing, and dynamic story-telling by a young cast. "Do you know your ABCs? Welcome to the Aotearoa Battle Championships - the B-boy Battle Grounds." - Sipugi Upega Growing up in a sophisticated world of expectations teenagers have developed a language code all their own. A 'Tumblr' of digital self-projection that can enhance or tear to pieces ones perception. Digital Winds is a play that has as one of its threads a teenage love story that ends in tragedy. In the telling of the story, however, will be the joy and spontaneity of dance, music, and comedy that is part of youth culture and its cultivated cool exterior. The play will be performed by young performers new to the stage working alongside seasoned professionals. Ambitious in its scope, experimental in its staging, the production will be a high energy piece of urban youth culture. Giving voice to urban Pasifika youth born and raised in Aotearoa navigating their way through Digital Winds. Digital Winds is the third play in Iaheto Ah Hi's trilogy of plays titled The Stingray Trilogy of which Tautai and Plantation are part. Sipugi Upega, a Samoan police officer working in South Auckland, is the main character in the trilogy. Within Digital Winds he is the youth leader of a church group which he mentors to compete in the Aotearoa Battle Champs, a highly prized dance competition. The youth group that Sipugi looks after is a tight knit group of friends that consist of twins Shiloh and Celeste, Kupu (Koops), and Jazz. Woven into the story are colourful characters such as The Lavache Galz, a local girl gang influenced by LA gang culture; Baked and Hashed, two window washers that wax lyrical about string theory whilst stoned; Happy Feet, a dancer from a rival dance crew that likes Celeste; and hacktivist Isumus, GM (guild master) of a World of Warcraft guild called The Imperishables. - http://www.theatreview.org.nz/reviews/production.php?id=3436

Notes:
Original Score and Music Director: Faalepo Vaotuua. The final play in Iaheto Ah Hi's epic Stingray Trilogy.

1st Produced:
Mangere Arts Centre, Auckland    24 Sep 2013

Organisations:
Kinetic Wayfinding and Martin Hautus Institute

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Music:
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Plantation

Synopsis:
Plantation is a Polynesian love story that explores the ancient knowledge of growing taro and the trials of growing families. a Samoan story celebrating family, growth and redemption, the play is set in two timeframes: present day urban South auckland, and Samoa's rainforest in the 1950s. In both Samoan and english, Plantation celebrates language, song, chants, dance and rainforest lore. Connecting the past and the present, Samoa and South auckland, Plantation is a unique celebration and acknowledgement of the 50th anniversary of Samoa's independence.

Notes:
Plantation is the sequel to Iaheto Ah Hi's first play Tautai

1st Produced:
Mangere Arts Centre, Auckland    15 May 2012

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Tautai

Synopsis:
the echoes of the past weave through time and geneology to the present. Tautai is a modern exploration of the playwright's love of Polynesian mythology and story telling, woven into the kiekie that our Tokelauan urban youth live in today. Tautai is a fishing trip not to be missed.

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1st Produced:
Auckland: Maidment Arts Centre, New Zealand, ANZ    13 Apr 2010

Organisations:
Punalei Productions

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Music:
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