E Ipo, My Love
- Date 10-14 MAR, 6.30PM
- Venue Studio
- Price Choose What You Pay
- Runtime 60 mins
- Cast Tane Te Pakeke-Patterson, Gisele Proud
- Mentor and Director Dr Pedro Ilgenfritz
- Producer Tom Webster
- Operator and Lighting Designer Joseph Noster
- Poster photography Benny Joy Smith
There’s all this history… but there’s also me and you.
E Ipo, My Love is an honest, heartfelt and at times hilarious look at what it is to be a Māori and Pākehā couple in Aotearoa New Zealand. Inspired by historical accounts, interviews with couples, and their own experiences of being together, Tane Te Pakeke-Patterson (Kai Tahu, Kāti Hateatea) & Gisele Proud pull back the curtain on bicultural relationships in a nation with “one of the best race relations in the world”.
From first contact to final moments, E Ipo, My Love invites you to navigate both the uncomfortable and the uplifting alongside a young couple who are still trying to figure it out for themselves.
Bring your lover, your partner, or your situationship to enjoy this exciting new work by two young artists who are returning to Tāmaki Makaurau after developing and then touring this show internationally. The show was created through the Hagley Theatre School Six-Month Theatre Creation Course under the mentorship and direction of Dr Pedro Ilgenfritz.
