This week's
stories
Stories from conflict zones across time and around the
world are shared in a series of monologues in a new play by Paris-Based
New Zealander Juliet O'Brien. She's working with Spanish theatre
director Jorge Picó on In The Wars which is about to have its world
premiere in Wellington. In the monologues she's looking at how war
effects individuals, families and communities. We've waited a long time
to see another of Juliet's plays here... the last one, The Letter
Writer, was part of the 2010 New Zealand Arts Festival.
Aug 13, 2017
02:50 pm
 
Dr Paula Green is a champion of children's poetry -
writing poems for them and encouraging them to write their own. Paula
has published 10 poetry collections with more to come, she also writes
fiction, reviews, blogs, judges book awards and is a busy anthologist.
She received the 2017 Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement
in Poetry just a few months after being admitted to the New Zealand
Order of Merit for Services to poetry and literature. Keen to get people
talking about poetry, she runs the NZ Poetry Box and NZ Poetry Shelf
blogs.
Aug 13, 2017
02:40 pm
Romance writing might struggle to get respect in
literary circles, but it is the biggest selling genre around. New York
Times bestselling author Christie Craig whose pen name is C.C. Hunter
is a very big name in romance writing in both fiction and non-fiction.
Her titles include The Everything Guide To Writing A Romance Novel and
the light-hearted self-help relationship book Wild, Wicked and Wanton:
101 Ways to Love Like You Are in a Romance Novel. She's a guest speaker
at this year's New Zealand Romance Writers Conference in Rotorua.
Aug 13, 2017
02:25 pm
References to Colin McCahon's paintings and the Rocky
Horror Picture Show can be seen in an exhibition of work by a visiting
Sydney artist - Nell - who is a bundle of contradictions. She is a
Buddhist who's also an AC/DC fangirl, and one equally comfortable using
crucifix and emojee images in her work. Nell's putting on her first New
Zealand solo show WORDS + CROSSES in Hamilton - she's here as a guest
speaker at the Spark International Festival of Music, Media, Arts &
Design organised by Wintec's School of Media Arts. Nell will be
speaking at her exhibition at Ramp Gallery in Hamilton on Tuesday.
Aug 13, 2017
01:50 pm
There's a reason Romeo and Juliet is one of the ultimate
love stories - the young star-crossed lovers' story is the stuff of
stage, screen, music and of course literature. The Royal New Zealand
Ballet company is about to reveal a new interpretation, one its
choreographer Francesco Ventriglia promises will draw deeply emotional
performances from his dancers. Lynn Freeman also speaks to Romeo -
Joseph Skelton and to Juliet, Madeleine Graham. The national tour
starts in Wellington on Wednesday.
Aug 13, 2017 01:35
pm
Actor Elizabeth Moss has appeared in some of the most
successful long-running TV series of the past 15 years, from playing
Zoe Bartlett in The West Wing to the ambitious copy writer Peggy in Mad
Men. She's currently on screen in The Handmaid's Tale, based on
Margaret Atwood's novel, on pay-TV in New Zealand. And soon she's
starring in a second instalment of Jane Campion's psychological crime
thriller Top of the Lake - China Girl. The first episode in the series
was filmed in New Zealand, before the action moved to Bondi Beach in
Australia.
Aug 13, 2017
12:40 pm
More than half a century after this country's deadliest
road accident, a young Auckland theatre company is exploring what
happened during and after the Brynderwyn bus crash of 1963. Fifteen
people died in the accident and the company says the hurt lingers even
now. Over the next couple of months, Te Waka Huia will tour the
production, loosely following the route of the original bus trip from
Waitangi to Helensville.
Aug 13, 2017
12:15 pm
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