Both plays are based on interviews with imprisoned murderers, their families and their victims' families. Stuart Mckenzie and Miranda Harcourt's Portraits tells the story of a young girl raped and murdered in a small community. cross New Zealand, about a burglary gone awry. William Brandt and Miranda Harcourt's Verbatim is a ground-breaking play, performed in prisons a. "Two plays, three playwrights, one rape, two murders: Verbatim and Portraits confront us with the brutal and human truth about crime, through the voices of those most deeply affected. Two Verbatim Plays: Verbatim / Portraits (Paperback)īy Brandt, William Harcourt, Miranda McKenzie, Stuart
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Cleo is searching for the perfect job and life in the shiny city but the pressures of family responsibility and following her dreams almost overwhelm her. Rushing Dolls by performance poet Courtney Sina Meredith expresses in poetry and drama the complex desires and explosive energy of successful young Polynesian women. Taro King by Vela Manusaute takes us to a South Auckland Supermarket where hopes, dreams and low-price taros are feverishly negotiated, and where the workers dream of something bigger and brighter that the glaring lights of aisle four. My Name is Gary Cooper is a rollercoaster ride through cultural appropriation and sexual deception. My Name is Gary Cooper by Victor Rodger balances post-colonial politics, humour and eroticism as it questions the expoloitation and stereotyping of Pacific peoples by Westerners. a subtle, beautifully observed study of one of the most precious and intriguing gifts of Polynesian culture the third sexa classic of NZ theatre Anita McNaught A young faafafine is searching for answers to conflicting expectations of identity and duty in this comical and deeply touching play. and Nathaniel Lees is a funny and moving celebration of difference. Urbanesia is a collection of four outstanding scripts by contemporary Pasifika playwrights, each examining the tension between Western and Pacific Island culture and values and how that tension is being played out in Aotearoa.Ī Frigate Bird Sings by Oscar Kightley, David Fane. Urbanesia: Four Pasifika Plays (Paperback)īy Kightley, Oscar Fane, David Lees, Nathaniel Manusaute, Vela Meredith, Courtney Sina "A bloody good night out that only the most committed misanthrope would refuse to enjoy" The Dominion Read more ISBN Hilarity ensues as everybody scrambles to pick up the pieces during a night of music and dancing. Jill longs to marry Jack, the lead singer, but he's knocked up her friend, Rita, in a one-night stand. At Newbury Hall, the Archie Moore Trio is hoping to hit the big time, but Sid won't let them play. The Twist was all the rage, a bloke had to do the right thing and everyone drank sneaky pints in the car park. ".a comedy which, despite all its outward affability and talent to amuse, reveals something deeper about human relationships" The Pressįlagons and Foxtrots recreates New Zealand's Saturday night dance-hall era of the 1960s. A comedy about unlikely friendships and finding empowerment with power tools. Annabel, Louise, Helen and Siobhan invade Woody's man cave and persuade him to run the course. N The Pink Hammer, four women sign up for a carpentry workshop to find the tutor has absconded with their fees and left behind Woody, her disgruntled husband.