Philip Braithwaite is an award-winning playwright and theatre practitioner. Amongst his credits are the BBC World Service/British Council International Radio Playwriting Award 2001, the Sony Award for Radio Drama and the Massey University Cultural Award.
Phil’s work has been performed in New Zealand, Australia and Europe, and he has collaborated with devising groups from the Royal Court Theatre in London, the BBC and the highly acclaimed SEEyD theatre company.
He has also worked as a scriptwriting teacher at Massey University, Victoria University, the Wellington Performing Arts Centre (WPAC), and Whitireia Polytechnic.
Philip Braithwaite
Meet 'Arcadia', a dark and tragic island where the inhabitants speak a little funny and the challenge has begun; just how far would you go to preserve the ideals you think you live within. Arcadian Nights is a fairytale from hell. If you go down to the woods tonight you might just not come back.
Cast: 8
Philip Braithwaite
King David has conquered Israel and has grown complacent. One day he sees a woman bathing naked Bathsheba, daughter of the seven gods. He soon enters into an affair with her, which is complicated by the fact that she is married to Uriah the Hittite, one of David's most valiant warriors. Uriah is fighting in Rabbah at war.
Cast: 8
Philip Braithwaite
Martin is a man who believes in values. He attends the Camelot Club, a medieval society where the participants learn how to fight, live and behave like the knights of old.
Martin is a gentleman, and that's why he impresses Stacey when he meets her. But Stacey has a secret, and it involves her ex-boyfriend Kevin, who is lurking in the shadows.
Cast: 4
Philip Braithwaite
Alan hasn't been feeling himself lately. In fact he's been feeling like someone else entirely: Woody Allen to be precise. As he wisecracks his way through a particularly surreal quarter-life crisis, he leaves his friends no longer sure of who they are, what they want, or where they went wrong.
Cast: 6
Philip Braithwaite
A hard-hitting drama about the troubled life of ex-criminal Robbie charting his relationship with the daughter from a Pakeha family from the other side of the tracks. Robbie, who is part-Maori, struggles with his cultural identity and what it means to be a father in this moving and accomplished piece from one of New Zealand's emerging young playwrights.
Cast: 3
Philip Braithwaite
Terry and his wife Charlene are seeing out middle age in a small town in New Zealand. Terry's old friend Wilson comes to visit. Wilson is a journalist for TV, covering the recent influx of violence in the town. Wilson and Charlene strike a chord, and Terry is left wondering what has become of his life, and what will become of it if he doesn't stand in.
Cast: 4