STILL LIFE WITH CHICKENS: an Auckland Arts Festival top ten pick
STILL LIFE WITH CHICKENS: an Auckland Arts Festival event
STILL LIFE WITH CHICKENS: update
STILL LIFE WITH CHICKENS: a reading
Auckland Theatre Company are hosting a reading of Still Life With Chickens next week. Directed by Andrew Foster, featuring Goretti Chadwick, Julia Croft, and Fasitua Amosa, with a workshop chicken puppet by Katie Parker, and under the watchful dramaturgical eye of Philippa Campbell Jo Smith, it’ll be 45 minutes of laughs, clucking and gardening. If you’re in the neighbourhood next Thursday, check it …
STILL LIFE WITH CHICKENS: post-award
I’m chuffed. Have I already said I’m chuffed? (Yes.) I even like the photograph that accompanied the press release at The Big Idea: I also rather like this description of it: It is full of delicious detail, funny, heart wrenching and intensely moving. It is a work unmistakably growing right out of New Zealand soil; distinctly …
STILL LIFE WITH CHICKENS: 2017 Adam Award winner
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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STILL LIFE WITH CHICKENS: update
STILL LIFE WITH CHICKENS: a clinic
Last weekend, thanks to the administrations of the indefatigable Salesi Le’ota at Playmarket, Still Life With Chickens enjoyed a workshop directed by Andrew Foster, dramaturged by the redoubtable Stuart Hoar, and with the collective acting prowess of Iaheto Ah Hi, Jess Robinson and Louise Tu’u. Where the last Kingswood workshop generated the words offensive, adolescent, puerile and crass to describe the play, this latest workshop elicited symbolism, surrealist and existentialist. Believe me, …
STILL LIFE WITH CHICKENS: another play
Sharp-eyed (and long-suffering) readers of this blog may have put lua and two together to know that I’m working on a new play called Still Life With Chickens. It’s about an elderly Samoan woman who reluctantly adopts a barnevelder chicken and learns that there’s more to her sunset years than waiting for death. I don’t …