Warriors in Transit explained

Genre:television drama
Creator:William Takaku, Albert Toro
Theme Music Composer:Sanguma[1]
Country:Papua New Guinea
Language:English
Num Series:1
Num Episodes:8

Warriors in Transit is a 1992[2] Papua New Guinea theatrical television series (or televised play), written and directed by William Takaku and Albert Toro.[3] It consists in eight episodes, lasting twenty-five minutes each.[3] It was the first ever "broadcast-length drama wholly conceived and produced by Papua New Guineans". Its production cost approximately 125,000.[4]

The series "depicts political duplicity and the disintegration of a family in the Port Moresby settlements". Its central characters are parents who attempt, unsuccessfully, to look after their sick child. Takaku has stated that the parents' characters represent the Papua New Guinean government, while the child represents the nation.[3]

Notes and References

  1. https://books.google.com/books?id=qRNENWqcDKQC&pg=RA2-PA347 "Interview with Albert Toro"
  2. http://kainani.hpu.edu/hwood/HawPacFilm/films.htm "Feature Film List: LIT 3626 Hawaii and the Pacific in Film"
  3. https://web.archive.org/web/20040605033457/www.abc.net.au/arts/artok/performance/s202484.htm "Warriors in Transit: Theatre in Papua New Guinea"
  4. http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0013/001376/137689eo.pdf "Melanesia report"