Kilimogo Productions
Kilimogo Productions is a bicultural theatre group based in Dunedin (Ōtepoti). It began around 1995–1996, founded by Rangimoana Taylor, Cindy Diver, and Hilary Halba. The group aimed to explore theatre from both Māori and Pākehā perspectives, with Taylor noting they work as equals and discuss everything.
Their first major work was Nga Tangata Toa in 1997, written by Hone Kouka. The play opens with Māori rituals—karanga and haka pōwhiri—that blur reality for the audience, and it is structured around a meeting on a marae.
Two years later, in July 1999, Kilimogo presented Whaea Kairau: Mother Hundred-Eater, written by Apirana Taylor (Rangimoana Taylor’s brother) at the Otago Museum. The play references Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children. In this retelling, the central character is an Irish woman in New Zealand during the early wars of settler colonisation beginning in the 1840s.
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