The Mooncake and the Kūmara
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| Venue | Q Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand | ||||||||||
| Umbrella Event | Auckland Arts Festival 2015 | ||||||||||
| First Date | 5 March 2015 | ||||||||||
| Opening Date | 5 March 2015 | ||||||||||
| Last Date | 9 March 2015 | ||||||||||
| Dates Estimated | No | ||||||||||
| Status | Professional | ||||||||||
| World Premiere | Yes | ||||||||||
| Description | Nearly 90 years ago on a market garden in New Zealand, two families, one Māori and the other Chinese, became part of a romance that would uproot their lives over generations.
Layered with myth and fable, The Mooncake and the Kūmara is a moving story about a mixed-up, Māori-Chinese love affair that sprouts among rows and rows of potatoes. It’s a story about history, duty, secrets and the delicate balance needed to grow families. Told in a rich mixture of English, Māori and Cantonese, The Mooncake and the Kūmara is the debut, award-winning play by Māori-Chinese playwright Mei-Lin Te Pue |
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| Description Source | Programme | ||||||||||
| Primary Genre | Theatre - Spoken Word | ||||||||||
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Indigenous
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| Text Nationality | New Zealand | ||||||||||
| Production Nationality | New Zealand | ||||||||||
| Event Status | Completed | ||||||||||
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| Event Identifier | 154699 | ||||||||||
| Dataset | AusStage | ||||||||||
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