12:43 Samoan/Kiwi playwright David Mamea on imagining
what life might have been like for Pasifika soldiers sent to serve with the
Maori Batallion. He's just won an Adam New Zealand Playwriting Award for
Goodbye My Feleni.
12:48 Ex-pat director for the big and small screen,
Alison Maclean. We follow her career path from the landmark short film Kitchen
Sink to directing episodes Sex in the City and The Tudors.
1:31 Samin Son bases his art on his experiences in the
South Korean army - including risking punishment by drawing on toilet mirrors
he was having to clean using toothpaste and water.
1:41 Australian Soprano Antoinette Halloran on helping to
create a new interpretation of Madame Butterfly for NZ Opera, and on being just
as happy singing cabaret and musical theatre.
1:53 Waihi-born ballet dancer Ty Wall-King becomes the
Australian Ballet company's youngest Principal Artist at 26. He explains why he
moved to Australia to train and why he'd love to play the bad guy in some of
the classic ballets.
2:05 The Laugh Track: Scott Blanks previews the upcoming
Comedy Festival.
2:26 If zombies attacked your town, what would YOU do?
That's the question behind Apocalypse Z, a new immersive, interactive theatre
experience in Auckland's Aotea Square. Apocalypse Z was dreamt up one night by
actor/writers Simon London and David Van Horn. They wanted to know what
audiences, put into a crisis situation, would choose to do; flee or fight.
Ahead of its opening this weekend, Justin Gregory hit the streets to get
Auckland's answer.
2:38 Auckland poet Elizabeth Nannestad. She keeps us
waiting at least a decade between poetry collections, so what can we expect
from her third one, Wild Like Me?.
2:48 Dunedin jeweller David McLeod started out in
sculpture then started working on pieces that were much smaller and more
intricate.
3:05 The Drama Hour - Rescue Remedy by Sue McCauley An
upwardly mobile lawyer gets a dream case when he is asked to defend the woman
who attempts to assassinate the New Zealand Prime Minister.
For more information and images visit the Arts On Sunday
web page: http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/artsonsunday
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