Rural theatre group praised for effort

Caption:  Members of the cast

By MATTHEW VARI

Wednesday, July 10, 2013 (Midweek Chronicle, 2013)

The Awalava Theatre Group from Goodenough Island, in the Milne Bay Province was commended by the senior officers from the National Cultural Commission in Port Moresby last week.

It was during the press conference held to announce their play production ‘Kulele’, that the Director for Policy Planning and Research at the National Cultural Commission (NCC), Ombone Kaiku, lauded their ability to take their oral history and make a theatre production out of it.

“I would like to applaud the efforts of the group to integrate theatre with disseminating cultural history to their people and now to the rest of the country in Port Moresby,” he said.

While announcing the commission’s support of K3,000- he also encouraged the general public to come along and see the production and what the troupe has to offer. 

Kulele, a legend of the Goodenough and Rabaraba people, will be staged throughout this week at the Ulli Beier Theatre, University of Papua New Guinea.

The production will begin tonight at the theatre through to Saturday, with the Gala nights both on the first and last days.

Tickets will go for K50 for adults and K25 for students and children for the gala nights- public nights will be Thursday and Friday tickets will be K10 and K5 respectively.  

All proceeds from the tickets sold will go towards raising funds for their local primary school in Mataita village, central-Goodenough- to build a classroom and a teacher’s house to be ready for the school’s 60^th anniversary.