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A gothic Romance

Simon O\’Connor is a writer, actor and director. He has written for stage, film and TV and acted with most of New Zealand\’s professional theatres. He was, for a time, associate director of Downstage theatre in Wellington. Currently he is co-teaching a drama paper in community theatre at Otago University.

Renee is one of New Zealand\’s leading playwrights and a former Burns Fellow of Otago University. Her credits include Wednesday to Come trilogy, Secrets and Born to Clean. Missionary Position and Touch of the Sun both premeiered at the Globe Theatre, where Renee was artistic director until her recent move to Hamilton.

The political life of Elizabeth McCombs, our first woman elected to parliament (1933-35 for Lyttelton) is the central theme: her aspirations and deeds are counterpointed throughout against an embodiment of the contemporary female parliamentarian, a pastiche of Ruth Richardson.

Two teenage girls conspire to murder the mother of one of them. Based on the notorious 1954 Parker-Hulme murder, this script explores the breakdown of one moral universe and its replacement with another that is potent, powerful and, ultimately, tragic.

Four generations of women in one family deal with the 1930s Depression.