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Whiti Hereaka

WHITI HEREAKA  

 Nationality:    New Zealand
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Literary Agent:    Playmarket Inc  

Whiti Hereaka is an award-winning playwright, novelist and screenwriter. She is also a barrister and solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand. In 2012 she was awarded the Bruce Mason Playwriting Award. This award is one of the most prestigious awards available to Theatre writers in New Zealand - recognising early success in a playwright's career, and encouraging continued exploration of the Theatre medium. Hereaka has previously been recognised with awards for Best New Play by a Maori Playwright at the Adam Play Awards in 2010 for the critically acclaimed Te Kaupoi and again in 2011 for Rona and Rabbit on the Moon. Her play inspired by the poetry of Rowley Habib - Raw Men - was shortlisted for the Adam New Play award 2012. Her debut novel, the Graphologist's Apprentice was shortlisted for Best First Book in the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Asia/Pacific region) in 2011. Her second novel, Bugs, will be launched in 2013.

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below is a list of Whiti Hereaka's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Both Speak I         Collective Agreement         Fallow         For Johnny         Glimmer In the Dark, She Said, A         I Ain't Nothing But         Rewena         Te Kaupoi

Both Speak I

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Collective Agreement

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Fallow

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For Johnny

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a beautifully moving coming-of-age Drama about six young people dealing with love, life and loss. Set during the final year of high school, friendships will be tested as the fleeting nature of life becomes an abrupt reality.

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BATS Theatre, 1 Kent Terrace, Wellington, NZ    22 Jul 2011

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Glimmer In the Dark, She Said, A

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a visual piece of theatre about the woman who dreams of the man.

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part of the STaB season of experimental theatre.

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I Ain't Nothing But

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a black comedy about a man having an existential crisis

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part of the STaB season of experimental theatre.

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Rewena

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It's the night of the highly anticipated final of a popular TV cooking show, and one of the finalists is a local boy! But a small bunch of loyal devotees have skipped watching the finale in favour of attending their regular cooking class. Run by Maggie, hard-case with a soft-heart, tonight's lesson is how to bake rewena  also known as Maori bread. the recipe comes with a history of its own & it's just not the lesson anyone expects.
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Centrepoint, Palmerston North    07 Sep 2013

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Te Kaupoi

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In the not too distant future, internal terrorism has rocked New Zealand. Maori who protested against the government's abolition of Maori seats are widely blamed for civil unrest. the most notorious protester 'Te Kaupoi' runs a pirate radio show that encourages Maori to gather and overthrow the illegal government. On the barren plains of the North Island's central volcanic plateau, a mysterious young woman, Sarah, lies unconscious, bloodied and beaten. Zeke edwards is a cowboy on his last circuit before the government closes internal travel. His mother, Mary (aka Mere), lives in the old family homestead - planting trees, she stumbles across Sarah. Who can you trust?
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