Setting The Table

Set in the living room of a house in Ponsonby, this is a hard-hitting play about four women who challenge the violence in NZ society and debate the use of it by women. The action of the play is interwoven with rehearsals for a satirical revue the women are soon to present. (more…)

Te Pouaka Kareehe (The Glass Box)

Irihapeti, a young Maori woman, is torn between her successful city life and the old values and customs she has grown up with and must confront this dilemma when she and her sisters return home for Christmas. (more…)

Let’s write plays

Let’s write plays

This book is great resource for teachers and students by one of New Zealand’s best playwrights.

Includes chapters on:

  • Communication
  • Script Conferences
  • Plot and Theme
  • Characters
  • Conflict
  • Change
  • Different types of plays
  • Structure
  • Beginnings and endings
  • Climax
  • Sound, light and darkness
  • Action and pace
  • Workshoppng
  • Production

Tiggy Tiggy Touch Wood

Tig, mentally injured after a sexual assault relies totally on her lover Missy for survival and Missy suffers the consequences of this gruelling role as care giver. (more…)

Cherries on a plate

New Zealand writers talk about their sisters.

Mariyn Duckworth, Ed

  • Rueben Avenue, Elizabeth Knox;
  • phonecalls, Fiona Farrell and Moira Farrell;
  • synthesis, Cilla McQueen;
  • Elizabeth and Susan, Sue McCauley;
  • I aim carefully, Keri Hulme;
  • stories, songs and sisters, Margaret Mahy,
  • cherries on a plate, Marilyn Duckworth;
  • bluebell seasons, Fleur Adcock;
  • Poodle, Valerie Rose and Jimmy-the-Pumkin, Renée.

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Touch Of The Sun

Caroline Harris has recently died. Her daughters, Margaret Rose (Mugro) and Elizabeth (Lillibet), find that sorting out her belongings brings some curious information to light. (more…)