Review: The Undertow

The Under­tow is a mas­sive the­atri­cal epic pre­sent­ed by 35 per­form­ers from Te Rākau The­atre. Writ­ten by Helen Pearse-Otene and direct­ed by Jim Mori­ar­ty it fol­lows the sto­ry of sev­en gen­er­a­tions of Welling­to­ni­ans — Māori and Pāke­hā — as they carve out a life in Ōwhiro. Each of the four plays explores the expe­ri­ence of […]