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"Tension is rising in 1970s New Zealand. Muldoons government is cracking down on illegal immigration and the notorious dawn raids are ripping Pasifika families from their beds. At the eye of this political storm, everyday New Zealanders like Sione struggle to keep their families ...united. Fuarosa, the familys resident overstayer, fights against the chaos to keep hold of her freedom and Siones sister Teresa might be getting in too deep with black rights activists. First staged in 1997, Dawn Raids is just as confronting and relevant now as it ever has been. Oscar Kightley pulls no punches and brings the play to life with his trademark hilarity and wit"--Publisher information.
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"101 Monologues selected from New Zealand plays that are suitable for performance by young people"--Publisher information.
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"Performing Dramaturgy is the first comprehensive guide to New Zealand dramaturgy. Charting the history and evolution of international practice, Fiona Graham examines the introduction of professional dramaturgy to New Zealand and the development of a practice based on tikanga Mor...i. Through interviews and local case studies, Graham investigates how dramaturges have collaborated with performance makers from playwrights to performance artists to create work that is nuanced and multi-layered. Informed by thirty-five years of performance development experience, Grahams Performing Dramaturgy is essential reading for practitioners and students of all creative disciplines who want to apply the principles of dramaturgy to their own arts practice"--Publisher information.
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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. Annabel, Louise, Helen and Siobhan invade Woody's man cave and persuade him to run the course. His neatly ordered sanctua...ry will never be the same. And neither will they. A comedy about unlikely friendships and finding empowerment with power tools.
"...a comedy which, despite all its outward affability and talent to amuse, reveals something deeper about human relationships" The Press
Flagons and Foxtrots recreates New Zealand's Saturday night dance-hall era of the 1960s. The Twist was all the rage, a bloke had to do the right thing and everyone drank sneaky pints in the car park. At Newbury Hall, the Archie Moore Trio is hoping to hit the big time, but Sid won't let them play. Jill longs to marry Jack, the lead singer, but he's knocked up her friend, Rita, in a one-night stand. Hilarity ensues as everybody scrambles to pick up the pieces during a night of music and dancing.
"A bloody good night out that only the most committed misanthrope would refuse to enjoy" The Dominion
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"Eight short plays for children. Each play covers a different subject area, including: conservation, Samoan culture, Maori mythology, absurdist comedy, language conventions, fairytales and astronomy. The plays are fun works of fictional storytelling that are focussed on entertain...ment and getting children excited about drama, but still have an underlying educational focus"--Publisher information.
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Michael Hope is ten years old and sleeps on a volcano. Rumblings in the adult world encroach into Michael's life, erupting, and throwing his universe into a chaos that will change him forever. A coming-of-age story about life on the Peninsula.
Two teenagers fall in love. Their... parents are constantly at war. Will their differennt cultures keep them apart? Romeo and Tusi puts an hilarious Pasifika spin on Shakespeare's star-crossed lovers.
Sometimes to resuscitate love you have to risk drowning. In The Raft, a family tries to pick up the pieces and wrestle with things that have remained submerged for too long.
Michael James Manaia returns form the Vietnam War to find himself at odds with his culture, his history and his memories.
Four classic New Zealand plays from the South Island.
This title includes:
Peninsula by Gary Henderson
Romeo and Tusi by Oscar Kightley and Erolia Ifopo
The Raft by Carl Nixon
Michael James Manaia by John Broughton
Form:
New Zealand Play Series
Style:
Comedy
Drama
Themes:
Maori
Pacific Island
Social
War
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A playscript. by one of New Zealands prominent playwrites. An epic play tracing the lives, loves, successes and failures of several generations of a New Zealand farming family.
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A playwcript - A psychological study of parenting and planting: do you always reap what you sow?
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"In Haruru Mai, a Maori Battalion veteran returns to his small Northland hometown after forty years. His arrival revives anxieties over land and family, and Maori participation in the war. He becomes romantically involved with Paloma and, haunted by the death of a fellow Maori so...ldier, he shelters a young man battling his own demons. Strange Resting Places is a hilarious and often poignant exploration of the collision of Maori and Italian culture during World War Two. Big band music, traditional waiata and bomber planes are woven together in this beautiful tale of unlikely friendship and impossible love"--Publisher information
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