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Peter Bland

PETER BLAND

  (1934 - )
Nationality:    British
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Peter Bland was born in Yorkshire in 1932_and emigrated to NZ in 1954. He studied at Victoria University and worked for the NZBC as a talks and documentary producer. He has worked as a freelance actor/writer since 1963. A co-founder of Wellington's Downstage Theatre, he was awarded a Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council Fellowship in 1964. He returned to England in the same year and is now a well-established West End comedy actor and poet. His selected poems MA MAUI were published by London Magazine Editors in 1976 and awarded a Cholmondeley Prize by the British Society of Authors. While in New Zealand, Peter Bland wrote several one act plays for Downstage Theatre and published three collections of poems. (1978)

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below is a list of Peter Bland's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Father's Day         George the Mad-Ad-Man         Shhh - He's Becoming A Republic         Strays
Father's Day

Synopsis:
depicts an unceasing horror of men and an obsession with sex which grows more demented with age.

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Play/Drama

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George the Mad-Ad-Man

Synopsis:
George brings work home from the office - a bikini clad lovely from an advertising campaign

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New Zealand     1967

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Shhh - He's Becoming A Republic

Synopsis:
an immigrant author is interviwed

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Strays

Synopsis:
Revised version of "Father's Day"

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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