Maori playwright Sherilee Kahui wants to shake things up with her new work, Mokomoko. She's asking some hard questions and presenting some hard truths in the play, about a woman suffering from a personal trauma that has its roots in a genocide dating back several generations. Worse still, it's an atrocity has never been acknowledged. Mokomoko tells of a woman whose road to recovery from personal trauma is to discover her origin story, Sherilee tells Lynn Freeman she wants her play to empower Wahine Maori. Mokomoko - written and directed by Sherilee Kahui - will open on the 10th of May at Wellington's Bats Theatre in Wellington.