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Stories on stage, Mark Houlahan
The Plays of Bruce Mason: A Survey John Smythe Playmarket and Victoria University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781776560554 Here/Now: 8 Plays by Award-Winning New Zealand Playwrights David O’Donnell (ed) Playmarket, $35.00, ISBN 9780908 607594 John Smythe’s survey of the plays of…
Tagged with: David O’Donnell, Issue 116, John Smythe, Mark Houlahan, Playmarket, Summer 2016, Victoria University Press
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
Play it again, John Smythe
Red Light Means Stop: Six Super Solos from Aotearoa NZ ed Vivienne Plumb The Women’s Play Press, $27.95, ISBN 0958231001 Readers of this potent volume of mostly solo plays may engage with them as literature, as texts “auditioning” for production,…
Tagged with: Issue 60, John Smythe, Summer 2002, The Women’s Play Press, Vivienne Plumb
Posted in Literature, Plays, Review
Posted in Literature, Plays, Review
Diverse enjoyable strands, Heather Roberts
A Population of One Alice Glenday, Vintage, Auckland, 1991, $19.95 The Peace Monster John Smythe, Vintage, Auckland, 1991, $24.95 The Widowhood of Jacki Bates Frances Cherry, New Women’s Press, Auckland 1991, $19.95 Strained Relations Gaelyn Gordon, Vintage, Auckland, 1991, $24.95…
Tagged with: Alice Glenday, Frances Cherry, Gaelyn Gordon, Heather Roberts, Issue 3, John Smythe, New Women's Press, Spring 1991, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review