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The play’s the thing, Mark Houlahan
Best Playwriting Book Ever Roger Hall Playmarket, $22.00, ISBN 9780908607600 Shift Alison Quigan, Vivienne Plumb and Lynda Chanwai-Earle Playmarket, $35.00, ISBN 9780908607617 Bats Plays Ken Duncum and Rebecca Rodden Playmarket, $30.00, ISBN 9781776560899 To review Best Playwriting Book Ever, I…
Tagged with: Alison Quigan, Issue 119, Ken Duncum, Lynda Chanwai-Earle, Mark Houlahan, Playmarket, Rebecca Rodden, Roger Hall, Spring 2017, Vivienne Plumb
Posted in Literature, Plays, Review
Posted in Literature, Plays, Review
Theatre for life Lisa Warrington
Rebellious Mirrors: Community-based Theatre in Aotearoa/New Zealand Paul Maunder Canterbury University Press, $45.00, ISBN 9781927145456 Twenty New Zealand Playwrights Michelanne Forster and Vivienne Plumb Playmarket, $40.00, ISBN 9780908607471 Though differing in approach, tone and content, there are strong connections between…
Tagged with: Autumn 2014, Canterbury University Press, Issue 105, Lisa Warrington, Michelanne Forster, Paul Maunder, Playmarket, Vivienne Plumb
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Plays, Sociology
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Plays, Sociology
Strip-mines and elegies, Mark Houlahan
Slip Stream Paula Green Auckland University Press, $24.99, ISBN 9781869404628 Crumple Vivienne Plumb Seraph Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780473177171 Time of the Icebergs David Eggleton Otago University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9781877578021 The Radio Room Cilla McQueen Otago University…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Cilla McQueen, David Eggleton, Issue 95, Mark Houlahan, Otago University Press, Paula Green, Seraph Press, Spring 2011, Vivienne Plumb
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Remind me where we are now, Nicholas Reid
Secret City Vivienne Plumb Cape Catley, $24.99, ISBN 090856189X Shot Sarah Quigley Virago, $34.95, ISBN 1860499635 What country am I in here? Characters get ideas from watching “5.30 With Jude”, there’s a reference to “old Maori guys”, and one of…
Tagged with: Autumn 2003, Cape Catley, Issue 61, Nicholas Reid, Sarah Quigley, Virago, Vivienne Plumb
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, 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
More than a decent splash, Diana Bridge
Carnival of New Zealand Creatures Lauris Edmond Pemmican Press, $14.95, ISBN 0473073188 I’ll Tell You This Much Vincent O’Sullivan Pemmican Press, $14.95, ISBN 047306345X Avalanche Vivienne Plumb Pemmican Press, $14.95, ISBN 0473067056 Plunge Harry Ricketts Pemmican Press, $14.95, ISBN 0473076306…
Tagged with: August 2001, Autumn 2001, Diana Bridge, Harry Ricketts, Issue 49, Lauris Edmond, Pemmican Press, Vincent O’Sullivan, Vivienne Plumb
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Poem – Vivienne Plumb
The Waiting Room You are the space I have to go to before teeth, before tickets, before examination, and lying on the funny little bed, before the train, the plane, the exam, the interview, the sudden realisation, the notification,…
Form and dysfunction, Laurence Jenkins
The Ambush John Parkyn Quoin Press, $19.95, ISBN 1 877163 23 6 The Diary as a Positive in Female Adult Behaviour Vivienne Plumb HeadworX, $16.95, ISBN 0 473 06342 5 baby, is this wonderland? Jeanne Bernhardt HeadworX, $24.95, ISBN 0…
Tagged with: HeadworX, Jeanne Bernhardt, John Parkyn, Laurence Jenkins, Quoin Press, Vivienne Plumb
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Poems for the pocket, Vivienne Plumb
50 Poems: A Celebration Lauris Edmond Bridget Williams Books/Peppercorn Press, $29.95, ISBN 1 877 242 039 It is good to mark our lives with some celebration, which
is why we should welcome this celebratory collection of Lauris Edmond’s work marking…
Tagged with: Bridget Williams Books, Issue 41, Lauris Edmond, Peppercorn Press, Vivienne Plumb
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
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