Rukahu
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| Venue | Basement Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand | |||||||||||||
| First Date | 4 July 2017 | |||||||||||||
| Last Date | 8 July 2017 | |||||||||||||
| Dates Estimated | No | |||||||||||||
| Status | Unknown | |||||||||||||
| World Premiere | No | |||||||||||||
| Description | Rukahu is a show about Jon Bon Fasi, a senior Samoan performer, who has conned Creative New Zealand into giving him a grant of $75,000 for his new project, "Rukahu: In Search of the Pacific".
As the audience arrives on opening night, it becomes clear expenses have definitely been spared on the production. But where did the cash go? And how will a performer of such esteem justify this on his opening night? Comedic, confusing, and ultimately confronting, Rukahu blurs the lines between performer and character. Jon Bon Fasi is on the edge of ridiculous and tragic, and confronts cultural exp |
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| Description Source | Website | |||||||||||||
| Primary Genre | Theatre - Spoken Word | |||||||||||||
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Comedy
Theatre Solo |
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Funding Pasifika Samoan |
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| Text Nationality | New Zealand | |||||||||||||
| Production Nationality | New Zealand | |||||||||||||
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| Event Identifier | 214543 | |||||||||||||
| Dataset | Theatre Aotearoa | |||||||||||||
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