Tiri: Te Araroa Woman Far Walking

Writer and Director of the acclaimed The Haka Party Incident, Katie Wolfe (Ngāti Mutunga, Ngāti Tama, Ngāti Toa Rangatira) directs this new adaptation of the epic tale of Tiri Mahana, a 185-year-old matriarch, from her birth at the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi to present-day Aotearoa. This beautiful retelling was conceived by Witi Ihimaera (Te Whānau a Kai and Ngāti Porou), writer of the BAFTA and NZ Film Award winning film The Whale Rider, adapted from his best-selling book of the same name.

With award-winning actors Miriama McDowell (Ngāti Hine, Ngāpuhi) and Nī Dekkers-Reihana (Ngāpuhi, Te Rarawa, Ngāti Porou), audiences are invited to a play for the whole whānau where Tiri wants us all to remember that the good things, the right things in life, are worth fighting for.

Woven into a deeply emotional tapestry celebrating wāhine Māori and the emergent rangatahi who will take Aotearoa forward, Witi Ihimaera’s extraordinary play will shine once again in this astonishing new production. Tiri Mahana’s message is a national treasure that will continue to resonate across time and place.

Kua whatua ki te takapau o aroha, ka piata anō mai tēnei whakaari whakahirahira a Witi Ihimaera i tēnei whakaaturanga mīharo tuatahi, he tāonga puiaki o te motu e pāoro tonu nei ā haere ake nei.