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theatre productions. Taki Rua has been going since 1983 and has had several name changes over that time including The New Depot, Depot
Theatre and Taki Rua / The Depot. The full current name is Taki Rua Productions. Since inception the mission of Taki Rua has been to showcase work from New Zealand.
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Theatre became Taki Rua The Depot and then in 1994 to just Taki Rua. Former director of Taki Rua and playwright Hone Kouka says of the name, "Taki Rua is a weaving pattern and means to go in twos - signifying the bi-cultural aspect of the theatre."
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The New Depot was run as a cooperative with the people involved in each show taking the box office risk. At the end of 1985 the New Depot moved to an upstairs premises in Alpha Street at the back of
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Whakaari with the mission to showcase new Māori work.
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was produced in 1986 about current issue of the establishment of
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