A couple of weeks ago I went to see a third year play; Ioane and Alofa. I had been a part of a reading during the workshop stage and really enoyed the script, so I was curious to see how the production would turn out.
All in all I think it was a very enjoyable play, although it seemed to be missing a magic ingredient. One of the problems that I saw in the script early on was still there in the final production; one of the characters is an alcoholic party girl, but the stereotype was so blatant that it lost all meaning in my opinion. The performances were okay, but they had a little bit of an amateur feel - no one was properly convincing. The influence of TV on the writer was also really evident in the way the story was structured, and I don't think this episodicness helped the rhythm of the story. Probably the biggest flaw though was that the two central characters, Ioane and Alofa, were not really the protagonists. They did not have clear personalities and everything seemed to happen around them and to them; they did not seem to drive the plot themselves, and the story lacked a strong spine.
Nevertheless it was very enjoyable to watch and painted an amusing picture of the trials and tribulations of being a Samoan in New Zealand.
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