Mrs Finndego and I went this weekend to Auckland for a getaway. We went to see Bruce Mason's "The Pohutukawa Tree" which is an iconic New Zealand play about the European and Maori relationship in the 1950's. The lead role was played by Rena Owen who you may know as Beth Heke from "Once Were Warriors". The whole play is quite a slow burn which made it quite intense and I gave myself quite a headache by the end of the play. I intentionally stayed away from too much information about the play itself before we went because I didn't want any preconceived notions before I got to see it and I was glad. I just got very focussed on not only the play itself but also the craftmanship of the actors and watching their every move and how they delivered their lines, how they picked up their cues and how they behaved when they weren't talking. I hadn't been to a play for a few years and that side was part of the kick for me. I guess in the end the most important thing that I got out of it was that pride can be a good thing or a bad thing and too much of it is definetley a bad thing. It was kind of ironic but in a lot of ways but the pride displayed by Rena's character Aroha was similarly destructive as that of "Jake The Muss" in "Once Were Warriors".
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