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Staging the past, Phillip Mann

Posted on June 1, 1993 by NZ Books

Passing Through and other Plays Mervyn Thompson, Hazard Press, Christchurch, $29.95 Daughters of Heaven Michelanne Forster, New Zealand Playscripts, Victoria University Press 1992, $12.95 Joyful and Triumphant Robert Lord, New Zealand Playscripts, Victoria University Press, $14.95 In a recent book…

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Autobiography as drama: Thompson Agonistes, Roger Robinson

Posted on June 1, 1991 by NZ Books

Mervyn Thompson in his one-man show, Passing Through Theatre does not get more personal than this. The author/ performer is known to have serious cancer. The play is in considerable part about his mortality. A conventional review with a discreet reference at…

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