The festival offering from playwright Mitch Tawhi Thomas is a taut study of family dysfunction that finds plenty of life and laughter in the explosive quarrelling of estranged brothers thrown together by the death of their father.
The play presents an unflinching vision of a world where the ties that bind whanau together have unravelled leaving a collection of isolated individuals fumbling towards a sense of connection.
The nastiness of a vindictive family row will be familiar to all cultures and the script confounds expectations by suggesting that Maori experience is not always determined by the demands of tikanga.
Rachel House's assured direction ensures humour and tenderness emerge out of the carnage and the talented cast bring an appealing vitality to their characters.
