“ May I join the ranks in congratulating Albert Mateni and his team for a job well-done. It goes to show that there is definitely a need for Tonga to produce more dramatists or playwrights of the likes or calibre of Albert Mateni (not to mention Tonga as having real appreciation of the same).
The theme of the play "self-belief" or for that matter "self-determination" is too well-taken. It critiques the now commonly yet problematically held view of "role-model" or "role-modelling," which focuses on "what one could be" and not "what one is," thereby doing things back-to-front
It is in discovering "what one is" primarily that "what one could be" can be found secondarily. In the case of boxer Tevita Lolohea, he did not "role-model" himself, say, on the most famous all-time Tongan boxer Kitione Lave but instead he had to be himself first before he could ever become a Kitione Lave (Mind you, there was one and only one Kitione Lave). ”