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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 >>
Winner Of National Playwriting Award Announced
Tuesday, 25 November 2008, 11:46 am | 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 playwrights’ ... More >>
Short List For NZ'S National Playwriting Award
Monday, 22 September 2008, 5:30 pm | Playmarket
Five emerging playwrights have been shortlisted by a national theatre panel for New Zealand's most significant national theatre award, the Bruce Mason Playwriting Award, New Zealand playwrights' agency Playmarket has announced. They are Geraldine Brophy, ... More >>
Spring Awakening For The NZPlay In Wellington
Friday, 5 September 2008, 3:37 pm | Playmarket
Playmarket have announced a programme of playreadings and discussion for this October and November designed as a spring awakening for new theatre production in Wellington. More >>
Writing gets you chicks’
Monday, 7 July 2008, 2:16 pm | Playmarket
The most important annual event for budding New Zealand young playwrights is fast approaching. New Zealand's playwrights agency Playmarket is calling for submissions for the Tenth New Zealand Young Playwrights Competition, an event that has established ... More >>
Matariki Playwrights: Where Is Maori Theatre Now?
Friday, 20 June 2008, 1:40 pm | Playmarket
Contemporary Maori playwriting has played a vital role in the examination and celebration of our culture in recent years, and in the development path for some of New Zealand’s most celebrated work in film and television. Maori Television is now well established, ... More >>
Leading British Figures Join the Pacific
Friday, 22 February 2008, 5:06 pm | Playmarket
This year’s Pasifika Playwrights programme, developing and showcasing Pacific Island theatre in Auckland, features the visit of two influential British figures, Associate Director of London’s Royal Court Theatre Ola Animashawun and acclaimed playwright ... More >>
Bruce Mason Playwright Award Winner at Capital E
Tuesday, 5 February 2008, 4:51 pm | Playmarket
Playmarket and Capital E National Theatre for Children present a playreading of Albert Belz’s new commissioned work, Guardians of Boy, during the upcoming Fringe Festival. More >>
Playmarket Playwrights’ Studio 2008
Monday, 28 January 2008, 3:25 pm | Playmarket
Playmarket will be awarding playwrights with a place in Playwrights’ Studio 2008 in Auckland, Wellington, Dunedin and Christchurch. Playwrights’ Studio is an opportunity for writers to be guided through a rigorous re-writing process of their work, by ... More >>
Record Year For The New Zealand Play
Sunday, 23 December 2007, 1:29 pm | Playmarket
2007 was a record year for New Zealand plays, both for box office takings and the number of productions, says Playmarket, New Zealand's playwrights agency and development body. More >>
New Opportunities For Maori And Pacific Writers
Friday, 31 August 2007, 10:14 am | Playmarket
Malo e lelei, Taloha ni, Ni Sa Bula Greetings to all Auckland City, The EDGE and Playmarket are thrilled to be able to offer new and existing AUCKLAND based Maori and Pacific Island writers the opportunity in 2007-8 to create and develop new plays ... More >>
Leading figure in Maori Theatre leaves Us
Monday, 16 April 2007, 1:28 pm | Playmarket
In his mihi at the beginning of He Reo Hou: Five Plays by Maori Playwrights, published by Playmarket in 1991, Don Selwyn commented “without the writer we have no theatre – no film – no vehicle for a wider range of creative talents to contribute”. ... More >>
Winners of National Young Playwrights’ Competition
Tuesday, 13 March 2007, 1:17 pm | Playmarket
Six young playwrights have been singled out in the Ninth New Zealand Young Playwrights Competition, an event that has established itself as an important stepping- stone in the development of new writers for our theatre. Organised by script development ... More >>
Pasifika Playwrights Development Forum 2007
Friday, 23 February 2007, 2:37 pm | Playmarket
A daring and bloody Maori tragedy set on the cusp of the 19th century musket wars, and a play about the survival of an afakasi family (half caste Palagi/Samoan) living in New Zealand are presented to the public alongside a morning forum for those in ... More >>
Bold Maori Playwright Wins National Theatre Award
Monday, 27 November 2006, 10:03 am | Playmarket
Auckland playwright Albert Belz is the winner of New Zealand’s most significant national theatre award. Belz has won the Bruce Mason Playwriting Award, it was announced at a function on Saturday night evening at Wellington’s Downstage Theatre. More >>
2005: A Year Of Growth For The New Zealand Play
Friday, 30 December 2005, 5:14 pm | Playmarket
2005: A Year Of Growth For The New Zealand Play A Roger Hall million-dollar box office seller, large audiences generally, and a big increase in productions of New Zealand plays are highlights of a record-breaking year, say Playmarket, New Zealand’s playwrights ... More >>
