Aqua Nullius: Toe Fai! and Talaucaka

When remembrance becomes resistance 

Step into the fractured future of Aqua Nullius, a speculative Pasifikafuturism play series by Emele Ugavule, where memory, data, and ancestry collide. This double-bill presentation, Toe Fai! and Talaucaka, weaves together two interconnected worlds that imagine futures shaped by ecological collapse and technological empire, drawing from an Indigenous Pacific perspective.

TOE FAI! 

Set in the year 2102 where the world is completely dependent on artificial intelligence, Toe Fai! follows Kalala, a tour guide in the British Museum, examining how our memories betray, transform, and outlive us.

TALAUCAKA 

In Talaucaka, we meet Kalala again – now a decade later – after ecological collapse, alongside three other Pacific people, working as data annotators in the former British Museum.

Together, Toe Fai! and Talaucaka chart the evolution of one woman, one archive, and one world – from the cusp of forgetting to the ruins of remembrance.

• Writer & Director

  Emele Ugavule

• Assistant Director

  Kasaya Manulevu

• Producer

  Kaitlin Scott

• Stage Manager/Operator

  Mannuel Caballero
  Áine Elizabeth Rea

• Actors

  Selina Alesana Alefosio
  Te Ata Tu Patelesio
  Maurea Perez-Varea
  Kasaya Manulevu

• Voice/Film Actors

  Thomas Smith
  Sarah Lawrence
  Teresa Perez
  Lesina Ateli-Ugavule
  Emele Ugavule

• AV Designer

  Reuben Nicolas

• Sound Designer

  Ephraim Frame

• Set & Props Designer

  Grace O’Brien

• Lighting Designers

  Grace O’Brien
  Mannuel Caballero

• Accent Coaches

  Hilary Norris
  Jean Goodwin