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Lordania revisited, Laurie Atkinson
Three Plays Robert Lord (Phillip Mann ed) Playmarket, $30.00, ISBN 9780908607464 The playwright Robert Lord died in Dunedin on January 7th, 1992. His last play, Joyful and Triumphant, was premiered seven weeks later at Circa Theatre on February 20th as…
Tagged with: Autumn 2014, Issue 105, Laurie Atkinson, Phillip Mann, Playmarket, Robert Lord
Posted in Literature, Plays, Review
Posted in Literature, Plays, Review
National theatrics, John Callen
Playmarket 40: 40 Years of Playwriting in New Zealand Laurie Atkinson (ed) Playmarket, $40.00, ISBN 9780908607457 Ask an actor or director to speak at a function or write something about theatre, and there’s a good chance they’ll presume it’s themselves…
Tagged with: Autumn 2014, Issue 105, John Callen, Laurie Atkinson, Playmarket
Posted in History, Literature, Plays, Review
Posted in History, Literature, Plays, Review
The peculiar business, Laurie Atkinson
Katydid Lucy O’Brien Playmarket, $22.50, ISBN 9780908607419 No 8 Wire: Eight Plays, Eight Decades Playmarket, $30.00, ISBN 9780908607426 Plays 2: London Calling: Blue Sky Boys/John, I’m Only Dancing/Waterloo Sunset Ken Duncum Victoria University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9780864736840 …
Tagged with: Harry Love, Issue 98, Ken Duncum, Laurie Atkinson, Lucy O’Brien, Playmarket, Steele Roberts, Victoria University Press, Winter 2012
Posted in Literature, Plays
Posted in Literature, Plays
The play’s the thing, Laurie Atkinson
Two Plays Dave Armstrong Playmarket, $23.07, ISBN 9780908607358 Two Plays David Geary Playmarket, $23.07, ISBN 9780908607372 Two Plays Sarah Delahunty Playmarket, $23.07, ISBN 9780908607365 An English blogger wrote recently about the prospect of attending theatrical performances at the Edinburgh Festival:…
Tagged with: Dave Armstrong, David Geary, Issue 91, Laurie Atkinson, Playmarket, Sarah Delahunty, Spring 2010
Posted in Literature, Plays, Review
Posted in Literature, Plays, Review
From stage to page, Laurie Atkinson
Three Plays Gary Henderson Playmarket, $24.95, ISBN 9780908607303 Two Plays Toa Fraser Playmarket, $22.95, ISBN 9780907310 Does anyone read plays any more? Go into any of our major bookshops and you’ll have difficulty finding shelves devoted to “Drama” or “Theatre”.…
Tagged with: Gary Henderson, Issue 82, Laurie Atkinson, Playmarket, Toa Fraser, Winter 2008
Posted in Literature, Plays, Review
Posted in Literature, Plays, Review
Light fantastic, Laurie Atkinson
The Pollards: A family and its child and adult opera companies in New Zealand and Australia 1880-1910 Peter Downes Steele Roberts, $39.95, ISBN 1877228737 Shakespeare got in a snit with them and had Rosencrantz compare them to noisy young birds…
Tagged with: Issue 58, Laurie Atkinson, Peter Downes, Steele Roberts, Winter 2002
Posted in Biography, History, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, History, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Bugger the box-office, Laurie Atkinson
The Little Theatre: golden years of the New Zealand stage Glyn Strange Clerestory Press, $45.00, ISBN 0958370699 A Theatre in the House: The Careys’ Globe Rosalie Carey Otago University Press, $34.95, ISBN 1877133663 If British theatre, as Richard Eyre and…
Tagged with: August 2001, Autumn 2001, Clerestory Press, Glyn Strange, Issue 49, Laurie Atkinson, Otago University Press, Rosalie Carey
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
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