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  • '51
    Paul Maunder

    The wharf lockout of 1951 became a major industrial dispute in NZ working class history and the chief manifestation of McCarthyism in NZ. This documentary uses rapid scene changes, caricature and agit prop to evoke the period. Script prepared in collaboration with workers who lived through the dispute.

    6
  • 1895 - Diary of a Snowfall
    James McNeish

    Originally a radio play, broadcast in NZ and abroad, 1895 is based on a diary of the famous Canterbury snowfall. The stage adaptation requires a simple set and can be played without costume in schools, halls, small theatres or toured.

    6
  • 1946 The Boat Train
    Peter Hawes

    Focusses on the lives of four women whose existence changes while the fighting continues overseas. The return of the men from World War II sparks individual crises.

    10
  • 1981
    John Broughton

    An exploration of the 1981 Springbok rugby tour and protest action from the point of view of one Maori family. Faith, the law student protester; Rusty, a member of the police red squad and Ben, farmer and rugby fan.

    3
  • 2b or nt 2b
    Sarah Delahunty

    2 b or nt 2 b is a contemporary humorous take on characters from Shakespeare's Hamlet and Midsummer Night's Dream , Chekhov's Three Sisters and The Seagull, Sophocles' Antigone and Ibsen's Hedda Gabler.

    Hamlet and Antigone have dysfunctional families, Helena and Masha moon over unattainable boys and Irena and Hedda feel trapped in their boring lives.

    6
  • 6 Characters In Search Of An Otter
    Michael Wilson

    An excuse for actors to have a good time. The play is revue-style with multiple characters ranging from yogi and pusher to priest and parachutist. It parodies the short cuts offered by cults in the search for personal truth ... in this case a lost otter.

    7
  • A Big Hand For Mrs Fishwick
    Michael Heath

    Two elderly women in a home for the aged are visited by an equally elderly lady pianist, who is serving her sentence for a crime of theft in an old people's home. Her sentence is 100 hours of piano playing. A mad doctor occasionally rushes in to deliver insane monologues about the dying and the dead.

    4
  • A Christmas Carol
    Dave Armstrong

    Dickens' classic is hilariously updated to nineties New Zealand. A blisteringly funny attack on free market economics as well as a timeless heartwarming family yarn.

    8
  • A Comedy of Sorts
    Ian Cross

    Henry Faulkner is a choleric old man affected by his strike who is confronted by alcoholic writer Joanna Mason; who is gripped by her notion about their personal relationship. Just how the issue between them turns out seems conclusive to her, whilst the nature of Henry's treatment of it in the final scene leaves it in doubt in his mind, perhaps of the audience too ... The characters' interests reflect current themes of New Zealand today.

    5
  • A Day At A Time
    David Hill

    Teenager Troy struggles to cope with an alcoholic parent, his passion for cycling and the attentions of the girl next door. 13 actors doubling roles

    13 - 30
  • A Dream Romance
    Michelanne Forster

    A Mills and Boon writer pens a spoof of a 1950s musical about a girl looking for love. She gets advice from the more forward and knowing girls who nearly ruin her chances with Mr Right.

    6
  • A Fridge Too Far
    Ken Hudson

    A comedy which pays tribute to the traditional Brian Rix farce by presenting an Antipodean reversal of the usual format. Behind all the mayhem is the Catch 22 of the DPB Beneficiary.

    6
  • A Frigate Bird Sings
    Oscar Kightley

    Vili is a fa'afafine (a Samoan transvestite) and an immigrant in search of self identity and integrity. The conflict of Western and Pacific Island values and attitudes are portrayed in all their comic and tragic consequences.

    6
  • A Higher Form Of Killing
    Peter Hawes

    A powerful play that examines the relationship of two Nobel Prize winning scientists between 1914 and 1934. Professor Fritz Haber became the greatest German hero of WWI. New Zealander Lord Ernest Rutherford refused to contribute to the British war effort. Both were scientists; both were expected to use their knowledge and research to create weapons of war.

    20
  • A Little Knife
    Gordon Dryland

    Ailsa is interviewed by a police psychiatrist. It transpires that she was raped and she consequently killed the rapist. In Baby Baby.

    1
  • A Love Like Ours
    Joe Musaphia

    Madeline is dead but at her funeral around her coffin all sorts of secrets come unraveled as her lovers and beloved gather to send her off. A very funny comedy that suggests that love like a book should never just be judged by its cover.

    6
  • A Man Walks Into A Bar
    David Geary

    Two stand up comedians, a man and a woman, battle it out onstage. Their weapons? Jokes based on the classic form, "A man walks into a bar...". They duel and drink, occasionally breaking out to do mini-scenes. The dialogue is fast-paced and action gets wilder as the play goes on.

    2
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream
    Elizabeth O'Connor

    This script is an abridged version of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, created specifically to be used in a production with Mendelssohn's score for the play. It includes narrative passages which incorporate some material from Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare, plus original material.

    13 - 40
  • A Most Natural Man
    Brian McNeill

    An historical piece about John Constable's life and artistic principles, using authentic detail.

    3
  • A Night At The Races
    Mervyn Thompson

    A co-written entertainment with songs, in which the audience is invited to have a wager along with the cast. The play focusses on the comedy and pathos of 'Murph the Serf of the Turf', with some serious (and by no means negative) things to say about gamblers and gambling.

    12