This week's
stories
Christchurch's Court Theatre's been acknowledged for
making its productions accessible to as many people as possible. 2017
Arts Access Creative New Zealand "Arts For All" Award. It
just won the Creative New Zealand Arts For All Award for its policy of
inclusion - opening up its work not only to schools, but for people
with autism, dementia, blindness and hearing impairments. Last year the
Court made all its children's shows "relaxed performances" so
audience members don't have to stick to the rules of being still and
quiet. Lynn Freeman talks to the Court's Education Manager, Rachel
Sears, about how to bring in people who wouldn't usually go to the
theatre.
Jul 09, 2017
22 New Zealand writers talk about the idea of home in a
new collection of essays brought together by Thom Conroy. It's called
Home: New Writing. Few of these pieces are nostalgic or sentimental in
their interpretations of what home means to them. Often home doesn't
mean a house, a home town or even a country - but a state of mind. Lynn
Freeman talks to editor Thom Conroy and essayist Sarah Jane Barnett.
Jul 09, 2017
Wellington playwright Finn Teppett has won a stack of
awards here and overseas, co-created the popular satire White Man
Behind A Desk Live! show, and has a couple of films on the go. This
week his latest play opens as part of the Bats Theatre Young and Hungry
season in Wellington. Finn descibes One Night Only as an outrageous
farce about young people, obsessions, identity and boy bands. Lynn
Freeman asked him why, when it's such a struggle to get young people
into theatres, Finn wants to write for the stage.
Jul 09, 2017
TVNZ Sunday Theatre is about to host a drama about one
of our most successful pop groups. It's called Dance Exponents: Why
does love? and it brought on a huge dollop of nostalgia for at least
one of the Standing Room Only team. Simon Morris remembers shooting
videos of the Exponents at the start of their career, and talks to
producer Carmen Leonard and director Danny Mulheron about turning real
life into gripping drama.
Jul 09, 2017
Starting a new Auckland based company for New Zealand
dance graduates, is one of the top priorities for choreographer Sarah
Foster-Sproull, who's won the 2017 Creative New Zealand Choreographic
Fellowship. Sarah has just submitted her Masters in Dance Studies
thesis through the University of Auckland Dance Studies programme. Over
the next two years she's got ambitious plans for new dance work here,
as well as collaborations with international dance companies.
Jul 09, 2017
Maori actor and director Rachel House is about to add
screenwriter and film maker to her impressive CV. She's receiving a
Ramai Hayward Directors' Scholarship for wahine Maori from the New
Zealand Film Commission, to make her first feature film. Just last
month Rachel became an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit and
last year she was co-awarded the Women in Film and Television Mana
Wahine award, along with Briar Grace Smith. She talks to Lynn Freeman
about her feature film dream.
Jul 09, 2017
By 1916, the number of men volunteering to join New
Zealand's military forces overseas in the First World war had fallen so
dramatically that conscription was brought in. Twenty thousand soldiers
had their names effectively pulled out of a hat during monthly ballots.
Now eight young artists, dancers, musicians and writers are thinking
back to that time, watching historic film footage, and revealling work
they've created for an exhibition called Luck of the Draw. Lynn speaks
with Libby Masterton, Etanah Lalau and Nathan Joe.
Jul 09, 2017
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