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Workshops on collaborative theatre
Thursday, 26 May 2011, 1:04 pm | Playmarket
PLAYMARKET have gathered some of the country’s most experienced and successful theatre collaborators to lead a series of five workshops exploring the creation, recording, and contracting of collaborative work. More >>
b4 25 Shortlist Announced
Wednesday, 11 May 2011, 11:38 am | Playmarket
The annual PLAYMARKET PLAYWRIGHTS b4 25 competition challenges youngplaywrights (24 and under) to write about anything that matters to them in any way they like, for any kind of audience they like, with the tag-line CHANGE THE WORLD – WRITE A PLAY! More >>
Award Winning Play Gets a Reading at Circa Theatre
Friday, 6 May 2011, 11:52 am | Playmarket
Our Great leader is having his late morning nap. Two members of the Security Service are stationed outside Our Great Leader's room. Problem. Our Great Leader has slept past his scheduled time. Problem. The two Security Service guards must wake Our Great ... More >>
Adam New Zealand Play Award Shortlist Announced
Monday, 4 April 2011, 1:06 pm | Playmarket
Adam New Zealand Play Award Shortlist Announced The Adam New Zealand Play Award recognises and celebrates the best in new writing for the theatre. The annual award, now in its fourth year, is the only one of it’s kind for new writing and encourages ... More >>
Short list for Playwriting Award Announced
Friday, 12 November 2010, 12:02 pm | Playmarket
Playmarket is proud to announce the four playwrights shortlisted for one of New Zealand’s most significant national theatre awards - the Bruce Mason Playwriting Award . More >>
Playmarket Metro Playreading Series
Monday, 11 October 2010, 12:44 pm | Playmarket
This final episode in the highly successful Playmarket Metro Playreading Series is not to be missed - a semi-staged reading of Briar Grace-Smith’s award winning play Nga Pou Wahine . More >>
Havoc In The Garden
Monday, 23 August 2010, 12:07 pm | Playmarket
Auckland. A hill. Five houses on a hill. Five families in five houses on a hill. One day in the life of five families in five houses on a hill. One day and havoc in the garden. Get a sneak preview of a major new work in development by Lennie James ... More >>
Le Tauvaga – The Competition by Louise Tu'u
Wednesday, 4 August 2010, 10:42 am | Playmarket
So… you’re a teenage boy struggling to be as kosher with your fa’a Samoa as you are in the Palangi world? What do you do? What don’t you do? Why do you do what you do? Why do they do what they do? And how exactly do you get yourself in ... More >>
Is Blood Thicker Than Water?
Thursday, 10 June 2010, 12:05 pm | Playmarket
It’s a warm night. Three hundred thousand dollars is missing from the gang safe. Aroha lies badly beaten in hospital while her dad and gang leader uncle have a few drinks and a game of cards. The tension and stakes are rising, and the cops are on ... More >>
Theatre Reading for Adam NZ Play Award Winner
Wednesday, 26 May 2010, 1:37 pm | Playmarket
An unknown fact in our country’s history is the profound impact the early colony of Akaroa had on artist Charles Meryon. On return to his native France, struggling to survive as an artist, he was compelled to depict waka over the skies of 1860s ... More >>
Playmarket Metro Reading Series
Tuesday, 4 May 2010, 11:54 am | Playmarket
An hilarious look at an unlikely friendship between two boys from vastly different cultures in 1970s Auckland, Niu Sila by Dave Armstrong and Oscar Kightley is the next offering in the Playmarket Metro Theatre Playreading Series. More >>
Adam New Zealand Play Award winners announced
Friday, 9 April 2010, 11:21 am | Playmarket
The startling imaginings of French artist Charles Meryon compelled him to depict whales and waka over the skies of Paris in his striking etchings*. A profound and dramatic mark was left on the artist by time spent in the very early years of the ... More >>
Playmarket Manukau City Metro Playreading Series
Monday, 22 March 2010, 1:32 pm | Playmarket
The PLAYMARKET METRO PLAYREADING SERIES kicks off on April 15th with a reading of Raising the Titanics, a new work by celebrated playwright by Albert Belz. PLAYMARKET, with the support of MANUKAU CREATIVE COMMUNITIES and MANUKAU CITY COUNCIL is pleased ... More >>
Classic Plays To Be Read As Well As Performed
Tuesday, 26 January 2010, 10:40 am | Playmarket
Six New Zealand plays publishers Playmarket believe deserve to be considered classics have been published as part of an effort to see contemporary New Zealand playwrights’ work appreciated and read as literature, as well as performed on stage. More >>
Young Playwrights Inspired By Life Not Couches
Thursday, 16 April 2009, 2:48 pm | Playmarket
Playmarket, New Zealand’s largest script development agency is proud to publically announce the winners of the tenth New Zealand Young Playwrights Competition. The young playwrights are: third time winner Kate Morris (who’s script Sketch already ... More >>
International Success For NZ Play
Thursday, 16 April 2009, 11:30 am | Playmarket
Please find attached information (and text below) about the upcoming London production of STiFF by New Zealand playwright April Phillips. More >>
We Will Remember Them Also
Tuesday, 7 April 2009, 12:17 pm | Playmarket
It’s generally accepted that the majority of New Zealanders today oppose war and advocate for more peaceful resolutions to conflict. Yet on Anzac Day those conscientious objectors who made difficult stands for this position historically still get limited ... More >>
New Play Award Winner and line-up for forum
Thursday, 22 January 2009, 12:41 pm | Playmarket
The 53rd Victim by Pip Hall has won Playmarkets 2009 New New Zealand Play Award. The play is based on the true story of a New Zealander who pretended to be a doctor in the aftermath of the 2005 London Bombings and died shortly after. She was described ... More >>
John Vakidis’ Tzigane
Tuesday, 16 December 2008, 2:42 pm | Playmarket
The first significant piece of literature exploring the Greek-Romanian refugee experience of emigrating and living in New Zealand has been published. John Vakidis’s Tzigane, an acclaimed New Zealand play has been released by Playmarket as part of the New ... More >>
Winner Of National Playwriting Award Announced
Tuesday, 25 November 2008, 12:05 pm | Playmarket
Paul Rothwell has been awarded New Zealand’s most significant national theatre award, the Bruce Mason Playwriting Award. The emerging playwrights’ award for 2008 was announced at Downstage Theatre Wellington by Playmarket, New Zealand’s ... More >>
