Costume design
The Haka Party Incident
Toi Whakaari : Graduation Production 2025
Directed by Jason Te Kare
Oct 2025
1 May, 1979.
University of Auckland engineering students dress up, perform a mock haka, and rampage across the university and Auckland streets. Māori have complained for years, but nothing has changed. The activist group He Taua confronts the students and it goes wrong. The nation is in an uproar.
Photo credit : Maeve O'Connell, Taylor-Rose Terekia