Troilus and Cressida in Maori - powerful ...

Last night, Tuesday 24th April, I went from Yorkshire to London to attend one of the first plays in a series, "Globe to Globe", comprising 37 plays in 37 languages. It was a powerful, passionate, poetic spectacle, with an original translation, and transposing the wars of Greek versus Trojan into classical [pre-European]Maori society. Like many/most of the audience, was captivated. My grasp of spoken Maori is diminished compared to thirty years ago, when I learnt it in Auckland, but I picked up some,and was carried along by this outstanding ensemble. The theatre group, Ngakau Toa, should be performing often and widely.