The second play in the trilogy, Wednesday to Come.
It is a generation since Wednesday to Come, and the 1951 Waterfront Lockout has replaced the Depression as New Zealand’s major social political battleground.
Jeannie and Cliff the two adolescents who joined the hunger march in Wednesday To Come, have each grown up and married. Pass It On explores the very different experiences of Jeannie, the political activist, and Cliff’s wife Nell, and traces their relationship from initial distrust to a firm alliance against the political and economic forces which threaten their families. It celebrates the role of working class women during the Waterfront Lockout; their courage, their resilience and their humanity.
‘The play skillfully interweaves the public course of events and their repercussions at the individual level.’ Robert H Leek, New Zealand Times
‘Pass it On writes it own chapter in the New Zealand theatrical coming-of-age.’ Kirsten Warner, New Zealand Herald
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