We Remember Wrong

Every memory is a performance. Every performance is a lie.

This project is fundraising the premiere season of 'We Remember Wrong' written and directed by Jackson Rosie (Dunedin Best Emerging Artist 2024, director of 'Crunchy Silk' by Jess Sayer at The Globe Dunedin 2025). The show highlights identity, whakapapa, and memory - specifically how memory is controlled and weaponized.  This show is a love letter to the identity and whakapapa that writer Jackson Rosie never got to know.

Written and directed by Jackson Rosie

Produced by Jackson Rosie, Chris Cook and Zach Hall.

Venue TBC (Based on funding outcome) 

Cast TBC (Yet to be announced, however they exist and they're excited!) 

From the creative crew that brought you 'Crunchy Silk' by Jess Sayer at The Globe Theatre Dunedin in May 2025.

Money will go towards set design, and venue hire. 

Set - Two glass cages with projector screens in each. Both requiring microphones for audibility. (Also inclusive of potential lighting and sound equipment hire). This is where most of the funding will go, as the set requires lots of elements. The projector screen hire and potential for having to hire a specific operator for these means lots of money!

Venue - Venue hire dependent on how much money is raised and what is available. 

The funding asked for here is a surface amount and gives us enough to cover the essentials such as set and venue, everything else will be covered by potential fringe funding (minimal) and funding by director savings. Any and all donations are greatly appreciated towards the goal, and anything donated beyond it is appreciated even more! 

‘We Remember Wrong’ is a daring new work that interrogates the legacy of colonization and politics of memory in Aotearoa. 

Through sharp dialogue, disorienting storytelling, and a tense and intimate setting, this play explores how systemic racism and state power continue to shape whose stories are remembered, whose are silenced, and whose are rewritten. 

At once a psychological thriller, a dark comedy, and a protest on stage… this work confronts audiences with urgent questions: What happens when history is manipulated into propaganda? How do we navigate identity when truth itself is weaponized? And can connection survive in a world built to divide?

This play is a love letter to the whakapapa I didn’t get to grow up with. It is a love letter to all tangata whenua in Aotearoa who feel displaced, who feel like they do not belong. This play is a message… despite centuries of abhorrent race relations, things will never be “okay.” The more we are silenced, the more we are fed lies about our history, our whakapapa, our ancestry, our home… the more we fight back. This play is a protest. Against the state of our country as it has been since the 1800s, and as it will be for years to come. Anyoen who feels angry, upset, disgusted by the governments treatment of tangata whenua since the colonisation of Māori will appreciate the way this show highlights the government and their fabrication of history, their lies and their abhorrence.