FUEL 2002 – Festival of New Zealand Theatre
Festivals
Artistic Director, CEO and founder of New Zealand’s premiere national theatre festival.
Location: Hamilton, New Zealand
Dates / Year: 14 June – 6 July, 2002
Venues: Meteor Theatre, Founders Theatre, WestpacTrrust Theatre, Waikato Museum, WEL Energy Trust Academy of Performing Arts, Saint Peters Cathedral
Sponsors: Scottwood Group, WEL Energy Trust, Trust Waikato, Sky City Trust, Creative New Zealand, Lion Foundation, Hamilton Community Arts Council, University of Waikato, Hamilton City Council, Waikato Times, RadioWorks, Novotel Tainui, Calder and Lawson House of Travel
About
FUEL – Festival of New Zealand Theatre is an outstanding national arts event that showcases the ingenuity, inspiration and diversity of New Zealand theatre.
The 2002 program included fifty –two performances by twenty-two companies including the world premiers of Indian Ink Theatre’s The Pickle King and Love’s Stories featuring Royal Shakespeare Company alumni Barbara Ewing and James Laurenson, New Zealand Festival commissions The Worlds Wife directed by Miranda Harcourt and James K Baxter’s poetry set to song in Baxter – featuring leading songwriters Dave Dobbyn, Martin Phillips, Emma Paki, Mahinarangi Toker and pre-eminent NZ poet Sam Hunt (CNZM, QSM).
The FUEL 4 Youth program offered a full range of theatrical experiences to students in the region with major productions in the Festival are also available as exclusive school matinees.The Festival also included the STIR– a youth-theatre commissioning project for emerging talent in the theatre arts.