This is our production that the whole school are doing on the 24th of September. We need to practise hard. As you can see it is called ...
Kia Hiwa Ra, Kia Hiwa Ra!
Be Alert, Be Watchful!
Characters:
Sailors: Crew 1769
Cook (Captain) Levi
Tupaia (Navigator) Jahdin
Banks (Botanist) Isla
Young Nick (Surgeon Boy) Brooke
Parkinson (Artist) Corbyn
Monkhouse (Surgeon) William
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Locals: 2019
Bella
Jessica
Timana
Liam
Karli
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Ensemble Group: Narrators
Kate
Kendra
Isabella
Kaycee
Ambar
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Props:
Maps, artist gear, surgeon gear, plants, Tahitian necklace,
Pacific
In the Pacific:
Ensemble group of 5:
Opens the play: As they are talking the endeavor comes down and the sailors appear on stage behind them. In a swirling mass disorientates…
Narrator. Our story begins in the Year 1770…. 12 months after first setting foot in Turanganui a Kiwa.
Cook and his crew are on their journey back to England from the South Pacific when a strange occurrence happened!
As they recover they realize that they are no longer in their own time…
Time travel sequence Music:
James cook: What is this clear looking material?
Tupaia: I think the clear stuff is a new animal.
But what's happened to our oceans?
Banks: Who did this to our oceans?
Parkinson: I don't know but it doesn’t look how I remember it.
Monkhouse: So dirty...
Banks: What has happened here? Where are we? I feel like we are no longer in our own time.
Parkinson: What is all this stuff though?
Nick young: It looks different?
Tupaia: I can’t believe the ocean looks like this!
Younk Nick: That looks bad for all the sea creatures!
Cook: I guess we’ll have to see where we end up to know where we are now.
(Fish plastic puppets swimming around the boat Little kids)
( night time happens sailors lounge around on the boat... )
Monkhouse: Tupaia tell us a story.
Banks: yeah this wind’s not picking up anytime soon we may as well pass time away.
Tupaia: Do you know the story of Maui?
All: No/Maybe/not really/tell us etc. No tell us ( altogether )
Parkinson: No I have heard of him but I have not heard the story
Tupaia: If you would like, I can tell you it.
Nick young: Yeah Tupaia let us hear the story.
Tupaia: Well remember New Zealand the country we found in the southern pacific?
All: Yeah…
Tupaia: Well Maui our great Pacific ancestor was the demigod who first discovered it. He was a great navigator and fearless leader. It all started when he was out fishing…
Ensemble Group of 5 comes out to tell the story:
through physical theatre as they talk in a spotlight the set disappears and Rongomatane comes on…
Tuia i te kawai
tangata i heke mai
Hawaiki nui
Unite the descendants from Hawaiki
Maui was a mischievous boy who liked to take great risks.
As he chased the biggest fish he realised he had bitten off more than he could chew…
Having no bait he punched himself in the nose to use his blood to catch the fish…
The magical jawbone of his grandmother hooked the most beautiful land of the pacific…
(Rongomatane takes over - Maui’s fish)
Poverty Bay
Boats come down and sailors are back on:
Monkhouse: Hey I recognise this land… Weren’t we just here?
Banks: I thought we were heading back to England and now we seem to be back in the South Pacific!
Young Nick: Land Ahoy!
Cook: There’s that headland we saw last time we were here! It hasn’t changed much!
Monkhouse: Someone’s trying to tell us something?
Parkinson: I have no idea what but we need to go on land to find out!
Cook: I wonder how the people are and what they’ll say to us after the last time we were here?
Banks: So many bad memories of the conflict!
Cook … I remember I called this place Poverty Bay.
Parkinson … Because This place had nothing for us.
Tupaia ... No freshwater and no food.
Banks … We also sent a scouting party of young boys
Parkinson … They must have been afraid
Tupaia … And Tired
Banks … I still can’t believe that those 10 and 14-year-olds Survived
Parkinson … It was a big job to go looking out for people that want to kill them.
Cook … Wow Poverty Bay has changed a lot look at all the people
Young Nick … Who are they
Cook … I remember they had very loud angry voices. Now I understand what they were doing thanks to Tupaia! Our men just didn’t realise what was happening.
Banks: if only we knew!
Tupaia… Yes many pacific cultures have a haka for ceremonial purposes. Let’s go on shore and have a look.
Boat goes up and villagers enter.
Ensemble Group as local Gisborne People -
Kia Hiwa Ra Kia Hiwa Ra
Be Alert
Be Watchful
Whakarongo
Listen
Unite, be one
Tui tuia
To the people of the world, Welcome
E nga Iwi o te ao Katoa
Tihe Mauri ora
Haere
Haere
Haere ki te Turanganui a kiwa
Cook … Hello people of Poverty Bay
Bella … We are Turanganui a Kiwa now.
Cook … What does that mean??
Jessica… It means the standing place of Kiwa while he waited for the arrival of Paoa to fix their waka.
Cook… Ohh I know not of these people Paoa and Kiwa? Who are they?
Jessica: Paoa and Kiwa were great navigators and voyagers who settled in Turanganui! They sailed over from Rangiatea bringing over 100 people with them, settling here to repair their waka and finally staying.
Tupaia … It’s so good to be back in front of this headland and meeting with you again after the tragic events of the last time we were here.
Karli: It has taken us a long time to come to terms with what happened when you were here!
Jessica: Yes, the stories are still coming out now about those events!
Banks: It was a most disagreeable time.
Monkhouse: One we hope not to repeat!
Parkinson: Please allow us to see your land through fresh eyes!
Young Nick: There’s the headland I spotted!
Timana: Yes it was called Young Nick’s head after you!
Liam … But we know it as Te Kuri o Paoa - Paoa’s dog - Can you see the shape of the dog there?
Tupaia … Were these names used before we had come the last time?
Bella … Yes, but you did not know that.
Tanemahuta’s Scene - Paoa/Kiwa
Sailors and villagers enter the stage.
Banks: What year is this? It is obvious we are not in our own time?
Jessica: 2019
Parkinson: What?
Cook: That explains the differences we saw in the ocean!
Karli: You’re not wrong there!
Timana: Our People’s greatest shame - Plastic!
Liam: The Pacific Garbage Patch
Bella: We as kaitiaki guardians of the earth have been so neglectful of the world making and disposing of their rubbish into our oceans. It doesn’t break down!
Cook: Atrocious disgraceful behaviour!
Monkhouse: We rely on this ocean for our livelihood!
Banks: Tell us about this rubbish? We have rubbish in our time but it never stays around forever it seems to disappear.
Jessica: Yes that is the problem we have - our rubbish isn’t disappearing - it’s just getting bigger and bigger!
Cook: Would you locals like to accompany us on our journey?
Monkhouse: Yes you could tell us about Modern day NZ
Karli: Before we set off, here is an updated map of NZ you might find useful since your last visit!
Cook: Oh here is my copies let’s have a look!
Young Nick: Wow sir, your map doesn’t look that much different to this one?
Timana: Yes your maps are often referred to for their accuracy!
Liam: In fact they were still used into the 20th century! Thats over a hundred and 30 years of use!
Cook: Wow (Reverently! And quietly proud!)
Villagers: Kia Hiwa Ra, Kia Hiwa Ra -
Sailors: Be alert! Be Watchful!
Endeavour comes down Back in the Endeavour as they leave Turanganui
Cook: Wow Poverty Bay has changed a lot (Looking at map) in 250 years I don’t know half of these names on here!.
Young Nick: Yes it has, the people still remember the sad events though - the deaths of the chiefs and fishermen, the misunderstandings!
Tupaia: Yes, it Shouldn’t have happened.
Parkinson: If only we had understood the meaning of the language.
Timana: I thought that’s why you had Tupaia with you?
Banks: True what went wrong?
Tolaga Bay
Scene on back drop where the map shows where the Endeavour went next. Lights up…
Young Nick Isn't that Cooks Cove?
Cook: We must be in Tolaga bay now.
Banks Is that people on the beach.
Cook: Let’s hop off the boat!
Parkinson: We’ll go and meet them we had a great time when we were here.
Everyone get off the boat and go on land boat goes up.
Liam The people of Tolaga and Anaura have fond memories of your visit.
Cook Oh that’s nice. We find ourselves having travelled in time and decided while we are here we may visit some of our favourite New Zealand Places.
Bella You are most welcome back here. Tupaia is very much remembered by the people of Tolaga.
Cook Yes I remember Tupaia sharing his knowledge with the people!
Banks I was so excited to have gathered some beautiful plants and bird life from here when we visited before. This area looks so different… where has all the native bush gone?
Cook: The last time I was here was on my 41st birthday. Young Nick: and that was 1 week, the longest we stayed anywhere.
Tupia: Yes I spent many long days talking with all the locals in that cave on the cliff.
Jessica Dude, your clothes really stand out here!
(looks at his clothes)
Cook Beg your pardon what did you call me
Bella She called you a dude
Cook What does that mean?
Timana It is a term for a person!
Sounds of Paikea Haka drift in
Cook ohh (pulling a crazy face) - what is that chant I can hear?
Karli That is all about one of our famous ancestors and navigators, Paikea who voyaged here from Hawaiiki.
Liam Yes his legacy is found here in the East Coast on the famous Marae at Whangara.
Timana We can learn a lot from Paikea’s story not just his navigation but also his great leadership.
Cook Can you elaborate a little more on the story
Timana: Well Paikea had seventy one brothers, he was the favourite.
Ensemble:
Paikea’s brother Ruatapu didn't like that, so he built a waka with a plug hole in it, so that when Paikea went in the waka with his brothers he could pull the plug so he and the other brothers would drown. Luckily a whale came and rescued him that's why we know Paikea as the whale rider!
Chant/Haka gets louder as Ruaumoko enters the stage.
Ruaumoko Scene - Paikea
Cook: What an interesting history you have here! Paikea really rose above his brother’s jealousy and made himself a leader!
Bella: Yes he did, he taught us a lot about how to put others’ self doubt behind you.
Jessica: To stand strong
Karli: Kia Kaha
Liam: Stand proud for who you know yourself to be.
Timana: Kia Maia
Bella: And to never stop caring about your values and helping others.
Jessica: Kia Manawanui
Banks: Your stories have a lot of good messages for how we should be as people!
Young Nick: We didn’t realize that before
Monkhouse: Uawa has a lot of great memories for us we know that you all enjoyed Tupaia here preaching and the sharing of Maori stories.
Tupaia: We can see that you still hold your stories close to your heart:
Cook: Thanks once again, we must be on our way. Sailors - to the boat!
Boat comes down and Endeavour heads off to Nelson - Cook Strait.
Cook Strait
(Talking on the boat)
Banks: I remember drawing a map for this part of New Zealand.
Captain Cook: I see on this map that this place is named Cook’s Strait
Monkhouse: Don’t you remember just sailing in on the Endeavour that was quite an amazing moment because it’s a beautiful place.
Cook: Yeah I do remember it. It was very beautiful.
Parkinson: It was also quite dandy to map.
Banks: Yes I whole-heartedly agree with you.
Cook: It looks like the people kept the name, I named the place
Parkinson: Looking at the map it seems to not have changed much.
Tupaia: Well It does have its small changes but overall not much difference.
Banks: Yeah because it’s only water and islands.
Captain Cook: True.
Parkinson: Wait but why are there so many clear animals again?
Banks: Maybe the species over populated.
Cook: That could be the case. But look closer that doesn’t look that much like an animal to me.
Tupia: I keep seeing signs about this thing called pl-a-st-ic? Maybe that’s what it is.
Timana: I am enjoying sailing on this enormous ship?
Captain Cook: Thank you. We have enjoyed your help with the local stories.
Karli: There is a story about this area too!.
Tupaia: Is there?
Banks: Remember these people know their local history really well.
Captain Cook: Oh lets hear the story of Cook Straight…
Liam: It’s called Raukawa Moana in Te Reo.
Tupaia: It is great to see a country that honours all its people in this way with language!
(Transition to next scene)
Kupe was a great chief and navigator from Hawaiki. We acknowledge him for naming Aotearoa - the land of the long white cloud….
Kupe’s father was from Rarotonga and his mother was from Rangiatea. One day the people of Rangiatea discovered trouble in their fishing grounds. The pots had been damaged and the bait had been taken and Kupe and his wife set out to investigate
The fisherman found an octopus that was really enormous they thought it must have been eating something. They Assumed that it must have been the octopus smashing the pots and eating the bait!
As Kupe was the chief he decided he should follow the octopus and bring the news back to the villagers. They chased the octopus all the way to the long white cloud, Aotearoa!
Tawhirimatea Kupe Scene
Song
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What is happening
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Lighting affects/mood
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1 Pacific drums to just one more Bluey
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Fish and krill flashing across the stage in groups
Octopus comes in
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Under the sea - blues greens shimmery maybe mirror ball
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2 Bluey
Voice over 1,2,3
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Kupe/boy villagers row out to investigate angry sees the pots are empty
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Mirror ball
sinister/danger approaching bit of red.
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3 What ever it takes/
sailing
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Boys go back and get the women in the waka chase octopus Groups of fish/krill leading the waka
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Blue sky, sea rippling.
Pacific sunshine.
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4 Nga tae oroha
Voice over 4,5
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New Zealand is given its name.
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Long white cloud.
Reverent
Spiritual
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5 We Rise Epic battle
Voice over 6,7
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Battle where the octopus is killed
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Red, angry
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6 Don’t forget your roots/New Hope
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Leave some of the daughters and men behind Kupe heads back to Rangiatea says good-bye.
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Party lights. Mirror ball
Back to the pacific sunshine.
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Final Scene -
Musical interlude boat down and plastic items come out and get hung up?
Little endeavour is on stage.
Cook : People of Aotearoa, New Zealand, I have to go back to England and tell my story.
Bella : It has been great to show you around our country!
Liam: We apologise for the state of our oceans!
Banks : England will want to know so much about our trip.
Jessica: Well we hope you have a safe trip back to England.
Timana: Especially time travelling through the garbage patch and all!
Cook : I do hope we can venture back to New Zealand someday!
Monkhouse: Such beautiful countryside!
Cook : Come on sailors we do have to get going or we will not catch the wind.
Parkinson: Farewell local people!
Cook : Safe travels back to Poverty Bay!
Locals: Turanganui a Kiwa!
( Sailors get on boat and start selling out to sea wheel the boat to the centro of the stage )
(Time traveling scene)
Sailors come out from the boat and walk forward. Black curtain goes down behind them so the rest of the school can walk on.
Young Nick: We’re back? Are we?
Tupaia: Looks like it!
Cook: Someone had taken us back to that time because they would like us to learn something
Banks: Life lessons maybe.
Cook : What life messages did you learn from seeing Aotearoa in 2019?
Parkinson: I have learnt that we were not the first to come to Aotearoa and that there were many more people before us.
Cook : The life message I learnt is how times change, and how we have to protect what we have, so in the future our children can experience the good points of life.
Tupaia: I learnt to honour the stories our our ancestors - Kia Hiwa Ra, Kia Hiwa Ra
Sailors: Be alert, Be watchful.
Banks : I hope the future generations manage to change the way they are treating their world!
Young nick : Pity we can’t change the future!
Cook : That can’t happen from us you know that.
Monkhouse: But they have the chance to change their future in 2019!
Parkinson: They owe it to all of us their past generations.
Sailors leave the stage to take positions for the final song...
Ensemble Group - enter to centre stage:
You maybe heartbroken to hear about what is happening in the sea. We need to make a change and make it now! Our ancestors expect it, our future generations demand it.
Honour our stories, cherish our land, love our people.
Black curtain goes up leaving the ensemble group out the front rest of school behind them.
Whole school: Kia Hiwa Ra, Kia Hiwa Ra, be alert, be watchful!
Locals: We take up the challenge! We owe it to them!
School sings: He Kakano
School dance: To Our Ocean
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