The Māori legend of Hakitekura, a 13-year-old female who was the first person to swim across Lake Whakatipu, is being retold, last night and tonight, by all 144 students of Queenstown’s St Joseph’s School.
The leads include, from left, Pippa Apolosi, 12, who plays Hakitekura, and her feathered friends Evelyn Roy, 10, who’s a kaia, Noah Mesquita Cavalcanti Albuquerque, 6, who plays a kiwi, and Joseph Hardman, 11, who’s a pīwakawaka (fantail).
The play, Hakitekura, was written for the school by Lisa Clough, who last year directed Showbiz Queenstown’s School of Rock and Remarkable Theatre’s Gone to Seed.
‘‘This is the third time we’ve attempted to get it over the line and on to the stage, so we’re stoked to be there’’, school principal Alan Grant
says.
Tickets on the door for night’s performance at Queenstown Memorial Centre, starting at 6.30pm, are $10 for adults, $5 for children (under-fives free) and $25 for families.
