3 Min. Promo: Maui - One Man Against the Gods

Maui is a spectacular theatre production that tells the life-story of Polynesia's most celebrated demi-god using a dynamic mix of kapa haka (traditional Maori performing arts), thrilling aerial displays and original music by Gareth Farr.

Maui is the story of a rebel. An outcast young warrior, raised amongst the gods, grows up away from his family and from the norms of his people. Upon returning to the natural world, he refuses to accept its social conventions and limitations. Possessing the charisma and the cunning to realize his ambition, Maui repeatedly challenges his surroundings as he strives to impose his will on the world around him.

From the moment of his birth, Maui is marked for both greatness and tragedy. He steals the secret of flame from the goddess of fire, pulls new land from the bottom of the ocean and traps the god of the sun. His achievements begin to transcend mortal limits. Yet, even as he artfully accomplishes these feats, his own hubris tragically drives him to seek immortality itself.

From the outset, the goddess of death waits for Maui, shadowing his development - an ever-present challenge to his ambitions. Never the ruthless hunter, her patient wait is the serene wait of inevitability. For, even as Maui foresees his great personal triumphs, the goddess of death knows she will embrace him in the end.

Maui is the story of limits that are broken and of what can be achieved when they are. It is the story of one man who proves he can fulfill his dreams; and, in striving to realize his last ambition, it is also the story of the one limit that can never be broken.