Aqua Nullius: Talaucaka & Toe Fai!
Circa Theatre, 2025
Writer / Director/Costume Designer: Emele Ugavule
Actor: Selina Alesana Alefosio, Te Ata Tu Patelesio, Maurea Perez-Varea, Kasaya Manulevu
Choreography: Selina Alesana Alefosio, Te Ata Tu Patelesio, Maurea Perez-Varea, Kasaya Manulevu and Emele Ugavule
Production Manager / LX Designer: Alexander Dickson
Production Set & Props Designer: Grace O’Brien
Sound Designer: Ephraim Frame
AV Designer: Reuben Nicolas
Accent coach: Hilary Norris
Costume maker: Thiwanka Wijewadarna
Photography: Maeve O’Connell
Graphic Design & Videography: The Misa Girls
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 & Toe Fai! were presented as a double bill at Circa Theatre in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Aotearoa in 2026.
