Maumahara Girlie is a four act play created in 2017 by Mya Morrison-Middleton which interweaves scripted scenes, poetry and research by Māori academics. Set across locations such as a riverbed, an urupā and a clean but cheerless kitchen, the text is embedded with pūrākau from Te Waipounamu and fictionalised personal history. Each layer of dialogue addresses themes of language loss, whakamā, connection to land and waterways, and the determination of wāhine Māori. Within the play is a universe of indigenous imagination, where both tīpuna and mokopuna narratives are blurred into one character named Girlie, to show the eternal spiralling of time within itself. Girlie doesn’t really know where her mokopuna end, and she begins.

The online version of Maumahara Girlie was accompanied by an original audio mix by Sophie Yana Wilson (aniwaniwa) and illustrated with kawakawa leaves and roses that flowed through the script.