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Arthur Meek

ARTHUR MEEK

  
Nationality:    New Zealander
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Arthur Meek: Short listed for the 2009 Bruce Mason Playwriting award, Collapsing Creation represents a bold new direction into Dramatic work for writer, Arthur Meek, who is better known for his comedic talents. In 2008, he won the Chapman Tripp Award for Best Male Newcomer for his performance in the Downstage production of On the Conditions and Possibilities of Helen Clark Taking Me as Her Young Lover. He was also nominated for a Billy T award in 2009 as part of the Lonesome Buckwhips.

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

         Collapsing Creation         Dark Stars         On The Conditions And Possibilities Of Hillary Clinton Taking Me As Her Young Lover         On the Upside-Down of the World         Richard Meros Salutes the Southern Man         Sheep

Collapsing Creation

Synopsis:
In 1859, Darwin's theory of evolution shook humanity, confronted science and challenged religion, including the profound faith of his beloved wife Emma. Arthur Meek's bold new play Collapsing Creation explores the courage of a visionary who must battle his conscience and soul to change the world - and find the strength to face the fallout.

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commissioned by the Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology And Evolution As part of worldwide celebrations marking the publication of Darwin's masterpiece: On the Origin of Species.

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Dark Stars

Synopsis:
In seeking his big acting break, Council is propelled by misfortune to a tiny island in the Pacific where he unearths the forgotten story ofAustralasia's popular Black Minstrel, Irving Sayles. Dark Stars weaves together the stories of two African-Americans living a hundred years apart in an examination of racist humour and the price paid for lusting after fame at the expense of dignity. Sayles was an entertainer with one of the largest minstrel companies in the midWestern USproviding audiences with stereotypical presentations of African American culture. After the Civil War in 1888 and aged just 16, he fled toAustralia. He subsequently became a well loved figure on the Australian stage moving to New Zealand to continue his career in vaudeville until his untimely death on a Christchurch street in 1914.
- www.theatreview.org.nz

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1st Produced:
Basement Theatre, Lower Greys Ave, Auckland    10 Feb 2012

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DS PRODUCTIONS

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60 min piece

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Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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On The Conditions And Possibilities Of Hillary Clinton Taking Me As Her Young Lover

Synopsis:
Join the over-educated, underachieving Richard Meros as he charges through the pop-cultural slipstream to prove his amorous point: that by taking him as her Young Lover prior to the 2016 Presidential election, Hillary Clinton will attain the world's highest office and initiate the Goldenest Age of American culture and society.

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1st Produced:
Pavillion, Hamilton Gardens, Hamilton    16 Feb 2015

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Genre:
satire

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Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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http://www.theatreview.org.nz/reviews/production.php?id=4328

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On the Upside-Down of the World

Synopsis:
Suppressed for 150 years, the Auckland theatre Company's latest work uncovers the words of a woman who dared to challenge colonial injustice. A crippled English woman arrives from London to a savage land. Charged with civilising the natives, she instead discovers the key to her liberation. Lady Ann Martin came to New Zealand in 1841, the young wife of New Zealand's first chief justice. Intrepid, intelligent and possessing a great sense of humour, she disregarded her personal disability, set about learning Te Reo, established a makeshift hospital for Maori on the beach at Judges Bay and dared to dream of all that was possible in this brave new world.
- nytheatre.com

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based on Our Maoris, the memoirs of Lady Ann Martin

1st Produced:
Concert Chamber - Town Hall, the EDGE, Auckland    01 Jul 2011

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Auckland Theatre Company

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Genre:
95 min Play/Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Richard Meros Salutes the Southern Man

Synopsis:
He tried to save New Zealand by becoming Helen Clark's young lover. . . He failed. Now, the Chapman-Tripp award-winning Richard Meros is back, with a new nuclear-PowerPoint to prove the number-8 wire nation faces extinction, our pioneer culture eclipsed by the globalised Fonterra farmer with a Facebook account. Meros alone holds the key to our salvation the craggy New Zealand hardness that still glimmers within the most urbane of latte-drinkers. the spirit of the Southern Man. there will be politicking and merchandise, so bring cash.
- www.theatreview.org.nz

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Adapted from the book by Richard Meros, by Geoff Pinfield And Arthur Meek

1st Produced:
BATS, Wellington    08 Mar 2012

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adaptation 60 min

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Sheep

Synopsis:
SHEEP is about products and people, technology and biology, and the tangled relationship between us and our means of production. 24 young actors perform six short snapshots linked by family and the journey of wool from sheep's back to wearable product. Starting in a Canterbury whorehouse in 1863, and ending in Christchurch in the aftermath of the 2011 earthquake, SHEEP is a series of quirky meetings between young people who are trying to make their lives better in the face of an increasingly complex relationship between technology and biology. SHEEP asks whether these things exist to serve us, or we exist to serve them.
- www.theatreview.org.nz

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1st Produced:
BATS, Wellington    25 May 2011

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Long Clod Youth Theatre

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Genre:
90 min Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  12 young actors

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