Kilimogo Productions is bicultural theatre collective based in Ōtepoti Dunedin that was founded in 1995 or 1996.
[1][2] The founders of Kilimogo Productions include Rangimoana Taylor, Cindy Diver and Hilary Halba.
[4] The play started with the Māori ritual of a karanga and haka pōwhiri blurring reality for the audience with this experience that bring a host group and a visitor group together and many in the audience would have experienced in different settings, overall the structure of the play was formed with the framework of a meeting on a marae.
[2] Two years after presenting Nga Tangata Toa Kilimogo presented Rangimoana Taylor’s brothers play, Whaea Kairau: Mother Hundred-Eater (July 1999) by Apirana Taylor at the Otago Museum.
In Apirina's re-telling the central character is an Irish women in New Zealand during battles and war at the beginning of settler colonisation starting in the 1840s.