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Haka Party Incident message still relevant today: Wolfe

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For the unversed, the Haka Party Incident is about a time when a group of University of Auckland engineering students rehearsing their annual tradition of a mock haka were confronted by the activist group, He Taua. Its outcome forever changed race relations in New Zealand.

The verbatim play The Haka Party Incident is a perfect reminder that the topic of racism is not just a thing of the past in Aotearoa.

Staged at the War Memorial Theatre, the play utilises a form of documentary theatre which is based on the spoken words of real people.

One of the unique benefits and the beauty of such theatre is that the onstage actors often — as experienced this Tuesday and We...

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