Hugely popular, and largely aimed at Drama and English students (year 10-13), the Y&H Schools Tour visits schools throughout New Zealand during term 2 of each year.
Young & Hungry is thrilled to announce our 2022 Digital School’s Tour, Noho is now open for bookings.
Noho is a 50-minute theatrical piece featuring extracts from a variety of Aotearoa plays, playwrights, performance pieces, and authors. This compilation of 13 performance works also featuring mōteatea, haka and waiata, creating a complete school’s performance-work to complement the NZ Drama Curriculum for years 10-13 students.
Noho seeks to tautoko the teaching of our NZ histories, presenting texts to illuminate and investigate colonising narratives.
Including excerpts from Ka Tito Au by Apirana Taylor, All Our Sons by Witi Ihimaera, Other People’s Wars by Dean Parker, Purapurawhetu by Briar Grace Smith and many more – Noho provides a robust platform for discussion, kōrero and growth.
Featuring our amazing cast – Dylan Fa’atui, Huia Max, Te Okanga Huata-Wagner and Waitahi Aniwaniwa McGee, this talented rōpū will be directed by the brilliant Erina Daniels and we know they will bring a lot of heart, passion and aroha to the script.
Due to COVID-19 safety precautions this tour will be available for school’s use from early June via a production digital link with access to a live Q&A Zoom session with the creative team, a full teacher’s resource pack which includes a full script and activities tailored to exam requirements – all prepared by knowledgeable school arts facilitator Kim Bonnington.
Please contact our Programme Administrator Mikayla Heasman at [email protected] to register your interest or find out more.
Please note fee subsidies are available – discuss with Mikayla for more details.
Erina Daniels (Ngati Wai) is an actor, director, script/show developer and collaborator. She enjoys developing and presenting high-quality theatre that will entertain and excite audiences – stimulating awareness, discussion and conscious action.
Erina’s recent mahi includes directing for Taki Rua’s Te Reo Maori Seasons in 2018 and 2021; appearing on stage in Jo Randerson’s – Another Mammal (Circa); devising and presenting as part of the Social Change Conference 2020 (Wellington), and enjoying being the recipient of Playmarket’s – He Pia Māori Kaihāpai Tuhinga programme of 2020/21.
Needless to say, we are excited about Erina joining the project and the theme that is emerging which will dovetail into the new history framework, Te Takanga o Te Wā and Te Marautanga o Aotearoa.
Yes. Our study guide includes:
Yes. An optional workshop can be booked for after the performance. The workshop allows students to explore the themes and concepts in the plays with the actors to enhance understanding.
The workshop will explore drama components as set out in the NZC to align how the elements, conventions, techniques and technologies in the show create ideas at specific moments.
The work is performed without stage lighting or a speaker system. So it’s a very easy set-up of normal house or room lights on full. The actors will set up their own props within the space.
Currently Y&H are working through our COVID-19 plans and how we would deliver the Y&H Schools Tour. We will update this section in due course.
One performance costs $750 +GST (maximum 150 people). Each additional performance at the same school, on the same day (booked at the same time), costs $350 +GST. An optional workshop is an additional $100 +GST. If you are finding funding difficult, there may be a school in your area you can share a performance with or we have a limited number of assistance grants that you may be eligible for.
An invoice for a non-refundable deposit of $250 +GST will be issued on booking. All deposits are to be paid before the tour starts. The invoice for the balance will be issued immediately after the performance day and is payable by the 20th of the month following.
Schools cancelling within 10 days of a scheduled performance will be invoiced for 50% of the balance due ($250 +GST). Schools cancelling within 48 hours of a scheduled performance will be invoiced for the full balance due ($500 +GST).
We do our best to cover as much ground in term 2 as possible. If you can’t see your area represented (see tour route info further down the page), or if the proposed tour dates to your area don’t fit, please talk to us, we will work hard to fit you in.
From North to South, we are pleased to be able to offer our Y&H Schools Tour during term 2 of each year. Book your spot now!
The student audience was delighted and engaged. It’s great to see real acting craft with no frills… the transformations were real and right in front of our eyes.
Takes the students to the parts of their brains that they need to explore and understand. What makes it even more valuable is the fact all the plays came from our neck of the woods…
