Aqua Nullius: Talaucaka
Te Whaea Theatre, 2025
Development season
Writer / Director / Actor / Costume Designer: Emele Ugavule
Actor: Selina Alesana Alefosio, Tamia Filipo, Maurea Perez-Varea
Choreography: Selina Alesana Alefosio, Tamia Filipo, Maurea Perez-Varea and Emele Ugavule
Production Manager / LX Designer: Alexander Dickson
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 - challenging the myth of aqua nullius.
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.