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1991

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Victoria Press, 1992

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Two teenage girls conspire to murder the mother of one of them. Based on the notorious 1954 Parker-Hulme murder, this script explores the breakdown of one moral universe and its replacement with another that is potent, powerful and, ultimately, tragic.

Court One, The Court Theatre, Christchurch

18 Sep 2010

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presented as a rehearsed reading in The Forge, 2009

DON'T MENTION CASABLANCA is playwright Michelanne Forster's powerful true story of the explosive love affair between her Jewish grandmother and her famous grandfather Michael Curtiz, the director of Casablanca and many other Hollywood classics. Making its world debut on The Court Theatre's stage on 18 September [delayed one week because of the earthquake], DON'T MENTION CASABLANCA reveals a journey of love, determination and sacrifice as it follows Forster's grandmother Thilde and her son to Curtiz from Vienna to Hollywood, as the shadow of Hitler falls across Europe. Mihaly Kertesz left Europe in 1926 having made 70 films. Once in Hollywood, working for Warner Brothers as Michael Curtiz, he made an additional 101 films, including the Oscar winning Casablanca. Thilde Foerster, a screenwriter in her own right, battled with Curtiz across continents and going to extraordinary lengths to gain child support for her son by him. "My father only gave me his blessing to write DON'T MENTION CASABLANCA after I convinced him the story about his mother was an heroic one," says Forster. "Without taking the risks she did, Thilde, her brother Ludwig and my father could have ended up in a gas chamber like 70,000 other Viennese Jews. Kertesz may have won Oscars but my grandmother kept the family alive."
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1986

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1993

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One of New Zealand's wealthiest and most powerful colonial politicians sows the seeds of his own destruction in this unusual love story. Larnach's journey ends with the destruction of his dynasty and his own suicide in Wellington's Parliament House.
Playmarket News

2006

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1996

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The story of missionary Thomas Kendall and the Nga Puhi chief Hongi Hika. Kendall, enamoured of Maori culture, deserts his wife and European ways only to discover he is without a moral compass in a world he has idealised, but not understood.
Playmarket News

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1992

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Contained in: Play Lunch - Five Short New Zealand Plays" published by University of Otago Press 1996

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Escaping Nazi Germany the Rosenburg sisters arrive in New Zealand and become the singing group The Rose Sisters

Concert Chamber - Town Hall, THE EDGE, Auckland

04 Oct 2010

presented by THE EDGE in association with The Oryza Foundation for Asian Performing Arts

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Based on a Chinese folk story, The Secret Of Dongting Lake follows our young hero Chen Yang as he leaves his life in a poor fishing village and sets sail across Dongting Lake in the mighty General Wongs army. Disobeying orders after saving a water dragon, Chen Yang is washed ashore after a fierce storm destroys the ship. Here he meets the Empress of the mysterious island and her beautiful daughter. All isn't a fairytale for Chen Yang though, as he discovers on the eventual return to his village.
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1993

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