Garbo, Marilyn and Dietrich are three “bag ladies” surviving on their wits and seeking refuge in a film star fantasy world: a bold exploration of the tensions as well as the bonds which form between women at the bottom of the social pile. (more…)
‘Death comes in threes. I always knew that.’
Daisy and Lily are together again after a separation of forty years, but for how long, wonders Daisy. Her cynical and flamboyant Uncle Auntie provides some of the answers — and some of the questions. (more…)
Annabel is very sick. Doctor Mendbones says she can’t climb a mountain but Annabel is determined. On the way she encounters a very rare pink moa and things begin to change. (more…)
Three short plays for women. In the first play we meet Elsie as she cleans a theatre cloakroom. In the second, Sandra sterilises her dishes, reminiscing about the secret she shared with her obsessive father. In the third play Joy goes to visit a charity fortune-teller and discovers her mother. (more…)
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…)
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…)
