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A play inspired by my mother’s adventures with poultry, and described at a workshop as surrealist and existentialist, has won the 2017 Adam New Zealand Play Award. I’m rather chuffed, thank you very much. I’m in Melbourne at the moment so 2016 Adam winner Maraea Rakuraku very kindly accepted the award on my behalf, with …
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From the correspondence of D F Mamea, Esquire, newly of Northland. Dearest Lovely Wife Dave the Chimney Sweep arrived and went to put a temporary fix on the burner when he straightened and looked at me: Sorry, mate, he said, but it’s so buggered it’s unsafe to use. He has thus uplifted the wood burner and most …
From the correspondence of D F Mamea, Esquire, newly of Northland. Dearest Lovely Wife The Dog and The Puppy didn’t finish their dinner from last night so I only topped up their bowls for breakfast. I’m a little worried about their lack of appetite but they were still reasonably active. The Boy took them for a walk …
From the correspondence of D F Mamea, Esquire, newly of Northland. Dearest Lovely Wife I thought a situational report (henceforth sitrep) would be helpful, informative, and an aid to my ailing moment-to-moment memory. The alarm went off at 0555 and I immediately turned it off. I had purposely set it for 0555 the night before, …
Born and raised in Te-Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, David Fa’auliuli Mamea (Safune/Safotu, Samoa) worked in a number of offices for over a decade before throwing it all in for film school. Since then he has worked on film, television, theatre and radio projects in genres ranging from sci-fi to soap, comedy to horror, and documentary to drama. …
There’s a lot of ground to cover in this part, so let’s leave the pictures to do the talking. In March, The Boy was in a frightful car accident and was hospitalised for a month. Fill* and The Boy — Auckland Hospital, March 2019. After three months at home and regular physiotherapy, he returned to full-time work in July. …
Is it the season or am I just being mean? Screen Junkies has an excellent selection of kids’ letters to Michael Bay, my favourite being: 07SEP12 UPDATE: Unfortunately the Screen Junkies image/link thingie no longer works. If memory serves, it was a child’s hand-drawn picture requesting Mr Bay explode his – the child’s – father. …
The lovely people at WriteUp have very kindly published another piece of mine. It’s a soft-focussed, selective and utterly unreliable reminiscence of the BREAK production. I present it for your entertainment. Feature Film Virgin Inspired by a true story. Script This is what I get for being impatient. After a couple of paid gigs – …
