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“The play’s the thing”, Sarah Ross

Posted on November 29, 2019 by NZ Books

Ngaio Marsh’s Hamlet: The 1943 Production Script Polly Hoskins (ed) Canterbury University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9781988503134 In August 1943, as New Zealand troops in Europe began the Italian campaign, the Canterbury University College Drama Society (CUCDS) performed Hamlet to sell-out…

Tagged with: Canterbury University Press, Issue 128, Ngaio Marsh, Polly Hoskins, Sarah Ross, Summer 2019
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Plays, Review

Whose pain? Sarah Ross

Posted on May 28, 2017 by NZ Books

Strip Sue Wootton Mākaro, $40.00, ISBN 9780994123756 To spend the duration of Sue Wootton’s Strip in the presence of her protagonist, Dr Harvey Wright, is not an entirely comfortable experience. Harvey is a community GP who is dissatisfied in an…

Tagged with: Issue 118, Mākaro, Sarah Ross, Sue Wootton, Winter 2017
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review

Echoes of the real, Sarah Ross

Posted on March 13, 2016 by NZ Books

Starlight Peninsula Charlotte Grimshaw Vintage, $38.00, ISBN 9781775538226 “A collar in the studio!” enthuses John Campbell to his co-host, as he takes over his new afternoon slot on National Radio: I have to share this with the listeners, because…

Tagged with: Autumn 2016, Charlotte Grimshaw, Issue 113, Sarah Ross, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review