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Kōrero: Māori theatre – te whare tapere hōu

Ko Jim Moriarty, i te tau 1994

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Jim Moriarty, 1994

I tīmata ngā mahi whakaari a Jim Moriarty (nō Ngāti Toa, Ngāti Koata me Ngāti Kahungunu) ki te Unity Theatre i Te Whanganui-a-Tara i te tekau tau 1960. Nāwai ka tūhono ia ki te hōtaka whakaata o Close to home. I tukuna ki a ia te tūnga mō Jake the Muss i roto i te kiriata o Once were warriors, engari ka kauparea e ia te tono, nā runga i te nui o te mahi kawe haere i tōna whare tapere a Te Rakau Trust ki te motu. Anei ia i tōna whakaari takitahi, i Michael James Manaia ki Taki Rua i te tau 1994.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1994/3514/4-F

by Mark Coote

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Mark Derby rāua ko Briar Grace-Smith, Māori theatre – te whare tapere hōu – First Māori theatre companies, 1970–1990, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/43331/ko-jim-moriarty-i-te-tau-1994 (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Mark Derby rāua ko Briar Grace-Smith, i tāngia i te 14 November 2013.