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.

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