JOHN VAKIDIS
| Nationality: | New Zealander |
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Plays by John Vakidis
Busted |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1999 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Playmarket, New Zealand | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Play/Drama | Youth Audience | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 |
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| Synopsis: | Nick, sixteen, becomes involved with a gang and in trying to be accepted leads his friends and parents on a nightmare journey. | |||||
Kaitiaki |
| 1st Produced: | - | 2001 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Synopsis: | Drama with songs | |||||
Keep Your Nose Clean |
| 1st Produced: | 1999 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playmarket, New Zealand | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Play/Drama | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - |
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| Synopsis: | Ti'a and Mark are two prisoners sharing a cell. In flashback we find out their crimes and much more as well about our society in general. | |||||
Pay You Thursday |
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| 1st Published: | Playmarket, New Zealand | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Play/Drama | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
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| Synopsis: | Two misfits meet in the Manners Mall and decide to escape south on the ferry. A strange friendship develops. | |||||
Rivermouth |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Playmarket, New Zealand | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 |
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| Notes: | written by John Vakidis and Hone Kouka | |||||
| Synopsis: | The evening begins as a celebration of the old gang ten years on and ends as an unsettling night of revelations of both past and present. | |||||
Taiki E |
| 1st Produced: | Tour of NZ secondary schools | 1997 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playmarket, New Zealand | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Youth Audience | One Act | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | written by John Vakidis and Hone Kouka | |||||
| Synopsis: | A touring band has some serious problems with drugs. Suitable for teenage audiences. | |||||
Tommy Swain |
| 1st Produced: | 1995 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playmarket, New Zealand | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Play/Drama | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | one musician | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | A monologue about a man and his addictions. Marked out Vakidis strong, real grasp of character and dialogue and a style of naturalism which is gripping and moving in its honesty and what it reveals of people. | |||||
Tzigane |
| 1st Produced: | 1996 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playmarket, New Zealand | ISBN | 1_playmarket_tzigane | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
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| Notes: | Winner of the Chapman Tripp Award for Best New New Zealand Play | |||||
 | A classic of New Zealand theatre, John Vakidis Tzigane is an enormously affecting story about an immigrant family. Warm, passionate and very funny, Tzigane (Romanian for Gypsy) introduces us to a Greek-Romanian New Zealand family whose situation (separated from each other by distance and expectations) speaks to many of us. The New Zealand born children return to the family home for a reunion, where a secret is gradually revealed. | |||||
Way Forward, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Playmarket, New Zealand | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Radio Drama | - | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 2 |
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| Synopsis: | he Way Forward takes place inside and outside an urban Residential Centre for teenagers. The facility houses both serious offenders and a number of youths being held in the Care and Protection Unit. The two units within the compound are seperate from each other, and the teenagers have no contact. | |||||