FUEL 2004 – 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: 17 June – 10 July, 2004
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 2004 program included fifty-four performances by twenty-six companies including Mau Dance’s, Paradise- fresh from the prestigious Venice Biennale, Black Grace Dance Company – critically acclaimed at the Holland Dance Festival and The Concert- winner of the British Council OZ Export Award.
The Festival hosted, in association with Playmarket New Zealand, an outstanding group of twenty-four New Zealand playwrights at Waikato University with six of our most respected playwrights and dramaturgs for a one week residential conference.
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.