With only a few days to go until the first
Escape! Festival in Tauranga, the organisers are tickling tastebuds with some
quotes, quips and little-known facts about some of the authors and performers. Tickets
are available from Baycourt in Tauranga,
www.ticketek.co.nz or
phone 0800 842 538. The full festival programme is at www.taurangafestival.co.nz
You know the news pigs have turned up when
someone says ‘where are the corpses and show me to a five-star hotel’: Tim
Wilson, (left pjoto by James Tolich), author of “News Pigs” (VUP, 2014)
The Edinburgh Free Fringe [in 2012] was the
first time we’d had an audience where people weren’t afraid of walking out. It
was scary but lots of fun: Ralph McCubbin Howell, co-author and performer of
“The Bookbinder”
It was award-winning travel writer Peter
Riordan’s wife who was keen to ride through India on a vintage motorcycle for
their honeymoon – an outbreak of bubonic plague had put her off the idea of using
trains. However, the couple quickly worked out the roads were far more
dangerous than the bubonic plague.
It’s not hard to go under in the restaurant
business, it’s hard to survive: Jo Crabb, chef and author of “My Two Heavens”
(Random House, 2014)
I did a weekend playwriting seminar in
Wellington and my piece caught the eye of Bruce Mason who workshopped it. I was
28 and thought I had the world at my feet. Now at 28 I would be expecting to
win the Booker Prize: Fiona Kidman
Our apathy in the face of global warming is
terrible. We’re in the pit of despair and we don’t know it because we’re too
busy playing golf: Craig Potton, photographer and conservationist
Sean O’Brien was a finalist in the partial
beard (freestyle) category of the 2012 North American Beard and Moustache
Championships: Sean (aka Joe Blossom) appears with Duncan Sarkies in “The
Demolition of the Century”
The physical debilitations that New Zealand
soldiers faced in Gallipoli were unique to Gallipoli – men having to poop where
they ate and surrounded by dead bodies. By 1915 the generals had learned and
the Western Front was highly organised and medical services relatively good:
Damien Fenton, military historian and author
I’ve been very lucky that my work has taken
me to places in New Zealand that maybe only 20 other people have ever been to …
but there is a sense of guilt too as those places may not be able to cope with
an influx of visitors that my images might promote: Craig Potton
In Finland there’s a myth that beer was
first made by three witches from honey and the saliva of a bear: Michael
Donaldson, author and beer columnist
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