Prisoners of Mother England was one of Hall�s early plays, written in the late 1970s while he was employed at the University of Otago. Like many of his plays, this is a comedy with sharp undertones. The predictable one-liners are there, along with the humour that appears superficial but which masks deeper feelings of confusion...
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Spoonface Steinberg
Spoonface is the moving and thought-provoking story of an eight year old, opera-loving, autistic girl who also suffers from terminal cancer. Never self-pitying or sentimental, Spoonface struggles to come to terms with life and death. Throughout, her perception of events around her is acute, even if her thoughts are at times jumbled. In her bedroom,...
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Mauri Tu / Tatai
Two Plays: Mauri Tü deals powerfully with issues of identity in a country that is, at times, struggling to take account of the mixture of cultures within it – and with justice (in all senses of the word). The issues are as potent today as when the piece was first written. Mauri Tü is also...
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Joyful and Triumphant
All eight scenes take place on Christmas Day in the dining room of the Bishop home in a small country town in New Zealand. The first scene in 1949 and progressively until the last in 1989. As the day progresses, so to do the years. The effect is to provide the unity of a single...
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Jerusalem, Jerusalem
A play about James K. Baxter, based on the form of T.S.Eliot\’s Murder in the Cathedral. It covers his final days, as the unkempt, sick and depressed poet wonders where he went wrong.
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Music Hall
INCLUDING DRAMATIC INTERLUDE “The Sequestration of Lady Stomp’s Super Sixpenny Stamp”
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Wit
The story of Wit is the story of Vivien Bearing, a professor of English who has spent years researching and teaching the metaphysical sonnets of John Donne and, while doing so, has felt that she had absolute control over her life and work. Then she is diagnosed with aggressive, ovarian cancer, becomes a patient in...