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Courage, candour and bloody-mindedness, Frances Edmond
Playscripts Victor Rodger: Black Faggot and Other Plays Victoria University Press, $35.00 ISBN 9781776561032 “Life will always leave fiction for dead”: Victor Rodger, in the New Zealand Herald, summing up his life experience, thus far. Rodger’s upbringing is certainly uncommon…
Tagged with: Frances Edmond, Issue 119, Spring 2017, Victor Rodger, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Plays, Review
Posted in Literature, Plays, Review
Infectious enjoyment, Fleur Adcock
Night Burns with a White Fire: The Essential Lauris Edmond Frances Edmond and Sue Fitchett (eds) Steele Roberts, $35.00, ISBN 9780947493448 This enjoyable anthology doesn’t pretend to be anything but an act of loving homage; as the editors admit, they…
Tagged with: Frances Edmond, Issue 119, Lauris Edmond, Night Burns, Spring 2017, Steele Roberts, Sue Fitchett
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Driven by secrets, Frances Edmond
When Sun and Moon Collide Briar Grace-Smith Huia, $21.88, ISBN 9781869693169 Sons Victor Rodger Huia, $21.88, ISBN 9781869693039 Why publish a play? Well, a book is a nice thing to hold, material and solid: a small package containing something intriguing,…
Tagged with: Briar Grace-Smith, Frances Edmond, Huia, Issue 86, Victor Rodger, Winter 2009
Posted in Literature, Plays, Review
Posted in Literature, Plays, Review
Roar of the greasepaint, Frances Edmond
Downstage Upfront John Smythe Victoria University Press, $49.95, ISBN 0864734891 In Downstage’s first year, 1964, I saw the Beatles in the Wellington Town Hall and screamed and cried along with thousands of other teenagers – girls mostly. The next year…
Tagged with: Autumn 2005, Frances Edmond, Issue 69, John Smythe, Victoria University Press
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
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