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PETER HIBBERDINE
Nationality: New Zealander
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Peter Hibberdine is an Auckland-based playwright and actor.
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Say It Without Blinking Why Is Everybody So Full Of Technique?Say It Without Blinking
Say It Without Blinking is set amongst the workplace politics of a modern natural history museum: A children's theatre producer is forced by her awful boss to put on a Chekhovian snoozefest for eight-year-olds that the boss has penned herself called, "The Colour of Silence". Chaos ensues& the beleaguered producer is fired, who in turn tells the boss that her play sucks and that, moreover, she has been conducting an affair with her husband. The boss ultimately kills herself with the dying wish that her play be performed once more to an empty theatre. The final act (a scene from the "The Colour of Silence") is word for word identical to Act Two, except this time with different actors and a wildly different outcome. Whereas in Act Two the acting was purposefully awful, in Act Five the acting is sublime and the scene works. Say It Without Blinking transports complex ideas about recursion and meaning into the realm of social interaction, creating a simple tale of loss, guilt and redemption.
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Musgrove Studio, Maidment Theatre, Auckland 26 Jul 2011
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Tragicomedy
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This is the surreal tale of A besieged Vatican from 530aD, As pieced together by blind-drunk historians from the distant future. An ill-advised PR campaign involving Sheena easton sets off A chain of events that can only end in stylish, demented tragicomedy And biologically extruded clerics. Will the empress theodora finally break into the Vatican And burn it down? Will Silverius find out which one of his confidantes betrayed him? Or will the beleaguered Pope be brought to his knees by the combined forces of paranoia And high-IQ stupidity? Rest Assured that, whatever happens, it's About A million miles Away from what Actually occurred in the sixth century. . . A bizarre comedy that pits the faithful And the faithless Against each other, while tackling issues of survival, church politics And raising the Age-old question, What happens when the Vatican has A Pope who does not believe?
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1st Produced:
Musgrove Studio, Maidment Theatre, Auckland 24 Jul 2012
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comedy
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