Red Havens – From Stromboli to D’Urville Island by Martine Baanvinger
Isaac Theatre Royal is excited to be hosting Red Havens as part of the Arts on Tour NZ Trust programme for 2024.
Please note the show will be performed in the Gloucester Room at the Isaac Theatre Royal, Sunday 28 July at 7:30pm and that capacity is limited. Book tickets here.
‘Red Heavens’ portrays the true story of Angelina Moleta, an Italian pioneering immigrant on D’Urville Island, whose fate is intertwined with the forces of nature and her deep connection with a high-born Māori woman.
Grown up on the active volcanic island of Stromboli, Angelina is betrothed to her cousin at an early age who, in 1906, brings her as a 16-year-old to the even more remote D’Urville Island, in the Marlborough Sounds.
Through hardship and an unlikely friendship, she grows into womanhood and motherhood.
This bitter and beautiful tale is inspired by the bestselling book ‘Angelina’ by New Zealand author Gerard Hindmarsh, who wrote this book about his grandmother.
Martine Baanvinger
Martine attended the Theatre Academy in Amsterdam in the Netherlands in the 1990s, where she co-founded the BARR-theatre collective in Rotterdam. BARR produced experimental performances and would always approach the creation of a performance with the goal to create something unique, honest and raw which resulted in exciting, unusual performances for their loyal audiences.
After Martine settled into beautiful Golden Bay, New Zealand, she established the theatre company DramaLAB and has been producing, writing, directing and/or acting in numerous performances including the powerful solo shows ‘Solitude'(2019) and ‘Aperture’ (2021) with Arts on Tour NZ.