Read Raw 2008
Lantern
by Renee Liang
Summer, 2008. As the rest of Auckland is getting down to long days by the beach, the Chen family get ready for Chinese New Year's Eve – a time by which all debts must be settled, the house swept clean of issues, and families reconciled. Jen is 25 going on 40, caught between worrying about her depressed father and wondering if she's ever going to find the right man. Her younger brother Ken is a loose cannon, unsure of his direction in life. Their father Henry is a broken man. And then his wife Rose, who walked out of their lives a year ago, waltzes back in… A play about finding out who you really are. And who you really love
Director / Dramaturg – Tony Forster
Cast - Li-Ming Hu, Andy Wong
Progressed to seasons at the Bats in Wellington and the Basement in Auckland in 2009
Musadora
by Maggie Maxwell
Authors as Miranda knows, have split personalities, one half does the typing and the other half does the washing up. Throw in a visiting migraine, stir and enjoy.
Director / Dramaturg – Alison Quigan
Cast - DarienTakle, Claire Chitham, Jen Ludlum and Rachel Nash
Providence
by Louise Tu'u
Life is a journey. A woman's search for the father she never knew, takes her across the vibrant landscape of her family.
Director / Dramaturg – Gary Henderson
Cast - Kura Forrester, Gerald Urquhart, Te Paki Cherrington, Cathy Downes
The Dance of Life
by Francis Edmond
Nothing is what it seems... What is life but a potent cocktail of sex, genes, and death. Things couldn't be more complicated, could they?
Director / Dramaturg – Phillipa Campbell
Cast - Cathy Downes, Jennifer Ludlum, Robert Mackelenberg, John Callen, Madeleine Hyland, Trygve Wakenshaw, Rachel Nash
One Day
by Laurence Dolan
When two people can't let go of their past they meet, one day in their own little world of loss, sacrifice and redemption.
Director / Dramaturg – Tony Forster
Cast - Claire Chitham, Jared Turner
Sisterly Love
by M.E. Macdonald
You can't always choose your family. Meet the Seagram sisters, the brain, the beauty, the bimbo and the burke - a wedding should be a time of joy.
Director / Dramaturg – Katrina Chandra
Cast - Elisabeth Easther
Seat of Power
and Cat and Mouse
by Sally Sutton
Two short plays on love, betrayal, murder... and an armchair.
Director / Dramaturg – Tony Forster
Cast - Jared Turner, Jocelyn McQuaid, Martin Sutton
Seat of Power progressed to a season at Ellerslie One-Act Play Festival 2011
Where Were You?
by Bronwyn Elsmore
"Two blasts disturbed the winter night and a ship dedicated to peace lay submerged in Auckland harbour
The tenth of July 1985 was the day I grew up…
That was the day I learned that if you want to fight for something… you put your life at risk
I think it was when New Zealand came of age."
Director / Dramaturg – Ilona Rodgers
Cast - Margaret Blay, Tracey McGuire, Edward Peni, Cameron Rhodes
Lantern
by Renee Liang
Summer, 2008. As the rest of Auckland is getting down to long days by the beach, the Chen family get ready for Chinese New Year's Eve – a time by which all debts must be settled, the house swept clean of issues, and families reconciled. Jen is 25 going on 40, caught between worrying about her depressed father and wondering if she's ever going to find the right man. Her younger brother Ken is a loose cannon, unsure of his direction in life. Their father Henry is a broken man. And then his wife Rose, who walked out of their lives a year ago, waltzes back in… A play about finding out who you really are. And who you really love
Director / Dramaturg – Tony Forster
Cast - Li-Ming Hu, Andy Wong
Progressed to seasons at the Bats in Wellington and the Basement in Auckland in 2009
Musadora
by Maggie Maxwell
Authors as Miranda knows, have split personalities, one half does the typing and the other half does the washing up. Throw in a visiting migraine, stir and enjoy.
Director / Dramaturg – Alison Quigan
Cast - DarienTakle, Claire Chitham, Jen Ludlum and Rachel Nash
Providence
by Louise Tu'u
Life is a journey. A woman's search for the father she never knew, takes her across the vibrant landscape of her family.
Director / Dramaturg – Gary Henderson
Cast - Kura Forrester, Gerald Urquhart, Te Paki Cherrington, Cathy Downes
The Dance of Life
by Francis Edmond
Nothing is what it seems... What is life but a potent cocktail of sex, genes, and death. Things couldn't be more complicated, could they?
Director / Dramaturg – Phillipa Campbell
Cast - Cathy Downes, Jennifer Ludlum, Robert Mackelenberg, John Callen, Madeleine Hyland, Trygve Wakenshaw, Rachel Nash
One Day
by Laurence Dolan
When two people can't let go of their past they meet, one day in their own little world of loss, sacrifice and redemption.
Director / Dramaturg – Tony Forster
Cast - Claire Chitham, Jared Turner
- Progressed to a rehearsed reading (moved with costumes lighting and sound) at The Court Theatre in Christchurch in 2010
- Progressed to a season at The Basement, Auckland under the title Days Like Today, June 2015, directed by Lucy Noonan
Sisterly Love
by M.E. Macdonald
You can't always choose your family. Meet the Seagram sisters, the brain, the beauty, the bimbo and the burke - a wedding should be a time of joy.
Director / Dramaturg – Katrina Chandra
Cast - Elisabeth Easther
- Progressed to a season at Auckland Fringe 2013cond production at Artworks Theatre, Waiheke Island from November 6, 2014
- Progressed to second production at Artworks Theatre, Waiheke Island, November 2014
Seat of Power
and Cat and Mouse
by Sally Sutton
Two short plays on love, betrayal, murder... and an armchair.
Director / Dramaturg – Tony Forster
Cast - Jared Turner, Jocelyn McQuaid, Martin Sutton
Seat of Power progressed to a season at Ellerslie One-Act Play Festival 2011
Where Were You?
by Bronwyn Elsmore
"Two blasts disturbed the winter night and a ship dedicated to peace lay submerged in Auckland harbour
The tenth of July 1985 was the day I grew up…
That was the day I learned that if you want to fight for something… you put your life at risk
I think it was when New Zealand came of age."
Director / Dramaturg – Ilona Rodgers
Cast - Margaret Blay, Tracey McGuire, Edward Peni, Cameron Rhodes
