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eBULLETIN - February 2012
The first PLAYMARKET eBULLETIN for 2012 features opportunities, news and articles for playwrights and those interested in their plays.
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2011 A RECORD YEAR FOR THE NEW ZEALAND PLAY
Playmarket, New Zealand’s only Playwrights’ Agency and Advisory service, has just released the New Zealand play licensing figures for 2011 and the news is good.
More people are reading, studying, producing, and paying to see NZ works on stage than ever before in Playmarket’s 39-year history.
NEW PUBLICATION - The exercise book
Edited by Bill Manhire, Ken Duncum, Chris Price and Damien Wilkins
Exercises give your body a workout. These exercises do the same for your imagination!
Two Lifetimes for Roger Hall
Roger Hall last night received two Lifetime Achievement Awards recognising and honouring his career as New Zealand's best known and most popular playwright.
The Dunedin Theatre Awards Playhouse Theatre Dunedin
The Hackman Awards Civic Theatre Wintergarden, Auckland
Congratulations Roger!
NZ Theatre in 2012
Homegrown writing is all the rage this coming season. All the kids are doing it. It’s ‘trending’. Keep up!
New Zealand’s major theatres and theatre companies are publishing their programmes for 2012 and there is plenty to get your wiri on about!
New Publication: LONDON CALLING
Ken Duncum
The three plays in this book I think of as the music plays. If you¹d asked me ten years ago, I would have said they were about the intersection of popular overseas music culture with New Zealand society, each of them showing a slice of Kiwi kids seeking an identity and a relationship to the world through different ways of dressing, talking, posing and thinking delivered to them through music. British music. The paradox of us looking to another culture to tell us who we are.
CONGRATULATIONS TO...
Whiti Hereaka - selected for the Summer Residency at the Michael King Writers' Centre.
BATS Theatre - whose premises have been bought and secured for the theatre by Sir Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh.
Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards 2011
Theatre excellence in Wellington was celebrated in the 20th annual Chapman Tripp Theatre Award’s 2011ceremony, which was held at the Opera House on Sunday 4th December.
NEW PLAYWRITING AWARD ANNOUNCED FOR 2012
Playmarket Award
At an awards function at Downstage Theatre, on 23 November, Murray Lynch announced that in PLAYMARKET’s funding agreement for 2012 – 2014, Creative New Zealand have approved a new award – called the PLAYMARKET AWARD - that will be offered from next year and come with a prize of $20,000.
