FUEL 2008 – 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: 24 June – 13 July, 2008
Venues: Meteor Theatre, Waikato Museum, WEL Energy Trust Academy of Performing Arts, Clarence St Theatre
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, Environment Waikato, The Southern Trust, 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 2008 program included fifty performances by nineteen companies including Auckland Theatre Company’s Where Once We Belonged, the award-winning theatre piece, The Case of Katherine Mansfield, performed by Danielle Cormack, Toa Fraser’s hit New Zealand comedy, Bare, and Geoff Chapple’s rollicking Hatch or The Plight of the Penguins performed by Stuart Devenie and directed by Colin McColl.
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.