Sherilee Kahui Photo: Soldiers Road Portraits
Māori playwright Sherilee Kahui wants to shake things up with her new work, Mokomoko.
She's asking some hard questions and presenting some hard truths in the play, about a woman suffering from a personal trauma that has its roots in a genocide dating back several generations.
Worse still, it's an atrocity has never been acknowledged.
Mokomoko tells of a woman whose road to recovery from personal trauma is to discover her origin story, Sherilee tells Lynn Freeman she wants her play to empower Wāhine Māori.
Mokomoko - written and directed by Sherilee Kahui - will open on the 10th of May at Wellington's Bats Theatre in Wellington.
