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Paul (1) Baker

PAUL (1) BAKER  

 Nationality:    New Zealander
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Paul Baker was Rector of Waitaki Boys' High School from 1999 to 2012. He is uniquely positioned to write The Night Visitors, having visited the Antarctic (with three boys from the school) and researched the New Zealand of a century ago for his doctoral thesis.

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 Meet The Churchills         Night Visitors, The

Meet The Churchills

Synopsis:
It's 1962 - the Beatles have their first hit, James Bond his first film and Randolph Churchill is holding a luncheon party to celebrate the 88th birthday of his admired but estranged father. Sir Winston is a fading force and there is unfinished business in his loving but dysfunctional family. Randolph is determined to finally get the truth about the break down of his wartime first marriage. Sarah, making an uninvited surprise entrance, is desperate to inform her father of her latest new lover. Her mother and Randolph are equally desperate that she doesn't. and Lady Clementine is intent on ensuring that Winston does not stand for Parliament again at the next election. Meanwhile, the socially inept Dr Jenkins, a newly appointed research assistant to Randolph, is pressed into service for the day. His unexpected access to the subject of his academic studies gives him the chance to pursue his own agenda and he forms a surprising bond with the wily Winston. Secrets are revealed, resentments released and new understandings formed, in this fresh and funny perspective on an iconic and larger-than-life family.
- www.theatreview.org.nz

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1st Produced:
Circa One, Wellington    18 Jun 2011

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Night Visitors, The

Synopsis:
At 2.30 a.m. on February 10, 1913, two strangers arrive at the house of the Oamaru Harbourmaster. Their task is to secretly telegraph a grim secret from the Antarctic that will become immense international news. That much is true. The Night Visitors then imagines both the comedy and the drama of this unique moment in Oamaru and New Zealand history. How will the traumatized Polar explorers cope with their sudden return to civilization'? And how will the Forresters Mum, Dad and two kids, a typical New Zealand family with quite enough problems of their own react to their unexpected night visitors? During the wee hours of February 10, and over the next few days as the news of Captain Scott's death becomes public, the phenomenon known as Polar madness' starts to emerge, while the fault lines in the Forrester family are comically exposed. The Night Visitors explores an Oamaru and New Zealand of exactly one hundred years ago. Many conventions and beliefs have changed, but human nature seems constant. The play also takes the audience back to the stark tragedy of the Antarctic.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
Opera House, Oamaru    06 Feb 2013

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produced by Megan Peacock-Coyle and Scott Eliffe for the Scott 100 Trust

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