Faculty
Drama Production “The Battalion”
Views from the Front line
F
rom Midway through
Term
1 of 2013, the advertis
ement
to join the production “T
he
Battalion” was in the Da
ily
Notices. It was kind of
a last minute
decision for me to go to
the meeting
that had been in the no
tices for
weeks, where we would
hear about the
show, the dates and wh
at’s expected
of us throughout The Ba
ttalion. We
learnt the story and his
tory behind
The 28th Maori Battalio
n, and it
all sounded too exciting
not to be
St Bernard’s College 2013
recreated, with the help
of veteran
and globally acclaimed
director, Jim
Moriarty.
Moriarty and partner “B
attalion”
playwright, Helen PearseOtene
, have been in the Maor
i Theatre
business for decades an
d had a very
clear image of what the
show was
to be like. So from then
on came the
rehearsals, starting on
a Wednesday
and Thursday after sch
ool and
Sunday mornings. They
later
extended to Tuesday an
d Saturdays,
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