{{Short description|New Zealand theatre collective}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=July 2021}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2021}} '''Kilimogo Productions''' is bicultural theatre collective based in Ōtepoti Dunedin that was founded in 1995 or 1996.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|last=|first=|title=Hilary Halba|url=https://www.otago.ac.nz/performing-arts/staff/otago629380.html|access-date=2021-07-10|website=Otago University}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Maufort|first=Marc|url=|title=Performing aotearoa New Zealand theatre and drama in an age of transition|year=2007|isbn=978-90-5201-359-6|oclc=230201315}}</ref>
== Background == The founders of Kilimogo Productions include Rangimoana Taylor, Cindy Diver and Hilary Halba.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web|title=Interact Drama|url=http://www.theatreworks.co.nz/interact/tutors.html|access-date=2021-07-11|website=Theatre Works}}</ref> The intention was to look at theatre from both a Māori and Pākehā perspective. Founding member Taylor says of this in an interview with Halba, "I sometimes think we go quite painfully, as equals, but we discuss everything."<ref name=":0" />
== Productions == === Ngā Tangata Toa === ''Nga'' ''Tangata Toa'' (1997) by Hone Kouka.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Grace-Smith|first=Briar|title=Consolidating Māori theatre, 1990s onwards|url=https://teara.govt.nz/en/maori-theatre-te-whare-tapere-hou/page-3|access-date=2021-07-10|website=Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand}}</ref> The play started with the Māori ritual of a karanga and haka pōwhiri blurring reality for the audience with this experience that bring a host group and a visitor group together and many in the audience would have experienced in different settings, overall the structure of the play was formed with the framework of a meeting on a marae.<ref name=":0" />
=== Whaea Kairau === Two years after presenting ''Nga Tangata Toa'' Kilimogo presented Rangimoana Taylor’s brothers play, ''Whaea Kairau: Mother Hundred-Eater'' (July 1999) by Apirana Taylor at the Otago Museum.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Halba|first=Hilary|date=2015-11-01|title=Poetry, politics, the past and the present: Interweaving Maori postcolonial theatre with Bertolt Brecht in Kilimogo's production of Apirana Taylor's Whaea Kairau: Mother Hundred-Eater|url=https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/nzps/2015/00000003/00000002/art00002|journal=Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies|volume=3|issue=2|pages=133–148|doi=10.1386/nzps.3.2.133_1|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Looser|first=Diana|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=31gEEAAAQBAJ&dq=whaea+kairau+(apirana+taylor)+kilimogo&pg=PA132|title=Remaking Pacific Pasts: History, Memory, and Identity in Contemporary Theater from Oceania|date=2014-10-31|publisher=University of Hawaii Press|isbn=978-0-8248-4775-3}}</ref> This play references Brecht's play ''Mother Courage and Her Children.'' In Apirina's re-telling the central character is an Irish women in New Zealand during battles and war at the beginning of settler colonisation starting in the 1840s.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Taylor, Apirana|url=https://www.read-nz.org/writer/taylor-apirana|access-date=2021-07-10|website=Read NZ Te Pou Maramura}}</ref> {| class="wikitable" ! Title ! Author ! Venue ! Year ! Notes ! Ref. |- |''Nga Tangata Toa'' |Hone Kouka |Globe Theatre (Dunedin) |1997 (Jul) | |<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|title=Theatre Aotearoa Database|url=https://tadb.otago.ac.nz/theatre/Web/WebSearch.php?Session=Guest-X-251278294|access-date=2021-07-11|website=Theatre Aotearoa Database|publisher=University of Otago}}</ref> |- |''Nga Tangata Toa'' |Hone Kouka |Playhouse Theatre (Timaru) |1997 (Dec) | |<ref name=":2" /> |- |''Tuatara'' | |Allen Hall Theatre (Dunedin) |1998 | |<ref name=":2" /> |- |''Whaea Kairau:'' ''Mother Hundred Eater'' |Apirana Taylor |Otago Museum (Dunedin) |1999 | |<ref name=":2" /> |- |''Mauri Tu'' | |Globe Theatre (Dunedin) |2003 | |<ref>{{Cite web|title=Mauri Tu / Tatai|url=https://globetheatre.org.nz/?project=mauri-tu-tatai|access-date=2021-07-11|website=Globe Theatre Dunedin}}</ref><ref name=":2" /> |- |''Homefires'' |Hone Kouka |Fortune Studio (Dunedin) |2001 | |<ref name=":1" /> |- |''Blue Smoke'' |Rawiri Paratene, Murray Lynch |Ruby in the Dust (Dunedin) |2002 |In partnership with Wow! Productions |<ref>{{Cite web|title=Past Shows {{!}} Wow Productions|url=https://wowproductions.nz/past-shows|access-date=2021-07-11|website=Wow Productions {{!}} Premiere Dunedin Theatre}}</ref> |}
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