Coming in 2025
Out the Gate is a new play written by Helen Pearse-Otene about incarnation in Aotearoa. It is about pathways towards a happy healthy whānau, reconciling the past and loving the future drawn from lived-experience.
PREMIERE & COMMUNITY TOUR 2025
Directed by Jim Moriarty Out The Gate will premiere in Te Whanganui-a-Tara and tour across the lower North Island.
current Performance dates
11 November - 1 December 2025
Please contact Kaihautū Lisa Maule if you would like to host this significant new work by Te Rākau.
More information about this project, including tour dates and booking information, will be available soon.
BACKGROUND
The play draws upon Māori-kaupapa research project, TIAKI – Community wellbeing for whānau with lived experience of incarnation, funded by the Health Research Council.
TIAKI has been running since 2023, co-led by Cheryl Davies (Tū Kotahi Māori Research) and Associate Professor Paula Toko King (Te Rōpū Rangahau Hauora a Eru Pōmare, University of Otago in Wellington) and Te Rākau, with people with lived-experiences at the centre.
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