About.
Company
Auckland Theatre Company
Venue
ASB Waterfront Theatre
Duration
Approximately 60 minutes
Advisory
None
Like I said, if you need anything, there’s a buzzer.
You do room service?
I didn’t say it worked. Enjoy your stay.
The inspiration for the play
In Samoan ua uma means the end. As in period. Full stop. But uma lava means more than just full stop, it means this really is it. Which means it's a fitting title for a play which features three characters who have reached the end of the road, although not in a way that they ever imagined. Using Satre's ‘No Exit’ as a starting point - three people, who hate each other's guts, trapped in a room from which there can be no escape - I've made each of the characters Samoan to give the tale an unabashedly and unapologetically Polynesian spin.
Victor Rodger September 2017
Creatives.
Victor Rodger
Playwright
Vela Manusaute
Direction
Featuring.
Goretti Chadwick
Anapela Polataivao
Ioheto Ah Hi
Roy Ward
Book
Tickets.
The Playwright
Award winning playwright Victor Rodger is this year's Writer in Residence at Victoria University. His plays include Sons and My Name is Gary Cooper, both of which were produced by Auckland Theatre Company, as well as the internationally acclaimed Black Faggot. His personal essay Voyage Round my Father was this year published in The Best of E Tangata and his short story Like Shinderella features in the Maori/Pasefika anthology, Black Marks on the White Page, edited by Witi Ihimaera and Tina Makeriti.