Aqua Nullius: Talaucaka

Te Whaea Theatre, 2025

Writer / Director / Actor / Costume Designer: Emele Ugavule

Actor: Selina Alesana Alefosio, Tamia Filipo, Maurea Varea-Perez

Production Manager / LX Designer: Alexander Dickson

Production Designer: Grace O’Brien

Sound Designer: Ephraim Frame

AV Designer: Reuben Nicolas

Costume maker: Thiwanka Wijewadarna

Photography: Taylor-Rose Terekia

Aqua Nullius is a century-spanning Pasifika futurist universe where the Pacific’s waters, lands, lineages, and digital shadows form a contested realm of erased and reclaimed Indigenous sovereignty. Across five plays, it explores water, memory, and colonialism—physical, ecological, and digital. Within this world, amongst everyday peoples we meet Pacific superheroes who wield ancestral, oceanic powers to defend both their homelands from ongoing extraction and erasure.

Talaucaka is the third play in the Aqua Nullius Universe, and the sequel to Toe Fai!

Set in a future dystopian England after ecological collapse, we meet former British Museum tour guide, Kalala, alongside three other Pacific women working as data annotators.

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