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Comment: At the Robert Lord cottage

Posted on February 24, 2018 by NZ Books

Novelist and memoirist Elspeth Sandys reflects on her recent residency I am a cottage-phile. The very word cottage starts bells chiming in my head, church bells probably, since the words that come to me are Robert Browning’s “God’s in his…

Tagged with: Autumn 2018, Elspeth Sandys, Issue 121, Robert Lord
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Lordania revisited, Laurie Atkinson

Posted on February 27, 2014 by NZ Books

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

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…

Tagged with: Hazard Press, Issue 9, Mervyn Thompson, Michelanne Forster, New Zealand Playscripts, Phillip Mann, Robert Lord, Victoria University Press, Winter 1993
Posted in Literature, Plays, Review