The Festival of Work in Development (FWD) finally returns live in 2022, showcasing student works at Toi Whakaari from Aug 30 - Sep 1.
FWD is a platform for students in their final year to share their research and explorations of form, performance and storytelling.
According to Acting Tutor, Anya Tate-Manning, FWD is a "beautiful feast of creativity and artistic voices, with emerging artists sharing new work with audiences."
"This year's festival features artist ventures that traverse generations and worlds; clowns form outer space, dance workshops, installations, creations around culture, history and politics. These are artists are creating their own creation processes, and exploring their artistic questions. forms of all kind are being explored and invented - film, live, comedy, solo, ensemble, scriptwriting, performance art and more."
"The voices of these emerging artists are inspiring, compelling and poignant."
The full programme of events occur in different theatres and space at Toi Whakaari, and are free for entry to the public. You can find a schedule below.
TUESDAY:
Creating her
By: Johanna Nyberg Rydström
Workshop - 11am (Drama 2)
The Fictional Truth
By: Dylan Matthew Prasad Menon
Performance - 11am (Basement Theatre)
Eighty-Seven
By: Ethan Jeffries
Performance - 12pm & 5pm (Te Whaea Theatre)
Miti Miti
By: Gideon T. Smith
Performance - 1.30pm (Basement Theatre)
Keige Leaga
By: Luz-Eliana Folau-Tovine
Performance - 2pm (Seeyd Space)
Laksa
By: Shervonne Grierson
Film premiere - 2.30pm (Drama 1)
How to be a good girl
By: Ruby Pledge
3pm (Drama 1)
Enjoy Yourself
By: Madison Wade
Draft cut - 3.30pm (Drama 1)
Sarah Rabbit Luka Rabbit
By: Luka Piripi & Sarah Lawrence
Performance - 4pm (Te Whaea Theatre)
Shirin and the main mountain
By: Rosalind Lay-Yazdani
Performance - 5.30pm (Basement Theatre)
WEDNESDAY:
The Fictional Truth
By: Dylan Matthew Prasad Menon
Performance - 11am (Basement Theatre)
There's so mushroom for love
By: Tabatha Killick
Performance - 12pm (Drama 2)
Thanks to our mothers pt. 2
By: Te Ani Solomon
Performance - 1pm (Te Whaea Theatre)
Fale Fa'atau
By: Brett Taefu
Talk - 1pm (Screen Lab)
The DJinn
By: Mojtaba Nazari
1.30pm (Drama 2)
Keige Leaga
By: Luz-Eliana Folau-Tovine
Performance - 2pm (Seeyd Space)
Leftovers
By: Joey Sheppard
Play reading - 2.30pm (Drama 2)
Don't fuck sheep
By: Maurea Perez-Varea
Performance - 5pm (Basement Theatre)
Two broke girls and a fetus
By: Nisha Jolliffe & Tabatha Killick
Performance - 4pm (Te Whaea Theatre)
THURSDAY:
Creating her
By: Johanna Nyberg Rydström
Workshop - 11am (Drama 2)
Shirin and the main mountain
By: Rosalind Lay-Yazdani
Performance - 11am (Basement Theatre)
Behind the scenes of Taniwha
By: Luka Piripi
Film - 12pm (Drama 1)
Bozo the clown finds the meaning of life
Devised by: Ethan Morse, Joey Sheppard & Xander Manktelow
Performance - 12pm & 4.30pm (Seeyd Space)
Two broke girls and a fetus
By: Nisha Jolliffe & Tabatha Killick
Performance - 12.30pm (Te Whaea Theatre)
How to be a good girl
By: Ruby Pledge
1pm (Drama 1)
Don't fuck sheep
By: Maurea Perez-Varea
Performance - 1pm (Basement Theatre)
Laksa
By: Shervonne Grierson
Film premiere - 1.30pm (Drama 1)
Thanks to our mothers pt. 2
By: Te Ani Solomon
Performance - 1.30pm (Te Whaea Theatre)
Enjoy Yourself
By: Madison Wade
Draft cut - 2pm (Drama 1)
Mise-en-scene Screening
Film screening (30 minute loop) 2.30pm (Drama 1)
Glasspaper
By: Max de Roy
Performance - 4pm & 5pm (Te Whaea Theatre)
D' things & such
By: Seiyan Thompson-Tonga
Performance - 5pm (Basement Theatre)
INSTALLATIONS
There's something hiding inside
By: Caiden Jacobson
All Week (Plaza)
Tautu Mo E Ativili
By: Luz-Eliana Folau-Tovine
Tuesday & Wednesday All Day (Seeyd Space)
Fale Fa'atau
By: Brett Taefu
Wednesday - All Day (Screen Lab)
The Reservoir
By: Megan Gladding
Thursday 4pm & 5pm (Design Atrium)
Suits You Well
By: Jodi Walker
Thursday 10am - 2pm (Dressing Rooms)
Any questions
Should you need to contact us, we can be reached as follows:
Craig Atkins – Registrar craig.atkins@toiwhakaari.ac.nz /021 0826 2095
For media enquiries- Taylor-Rose Terekia taylor-rose.terekia@toiwhakaari.ac.nz / 021 0394 200
