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Roger Hall

ROGER HALL

  (1939 - )
Nationality:    New Zealander
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Literary Agent:    Casarotto Ramsay and Associates Ltd  ANZ representative Playmarket Inc

Born England in 1939 and was educated at University College School, London. He emigrated to New Zealand in 1958 and, after periods spent working in insurance, restaurants and factories, graduated from Victoria University, Wellington, with an M.A. in English. He trained at Wellington Teachers' College, where he edited the college magazine, and subsequently worked as a primary school teacher before moving to the School Publications section of the Department of education. there he edited education magazine for several years before winning the Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago in 1977. He then taught the Playwriting course at Otago for fifteen years before moving to auckland in the mid-1990s. Hall began writing revue material while a student and then, with Joe Musaphia, wrote the pioneering local television comedy series, In View of the Circumstances. This was followed by scripts for Pukemanu and Buck House and by a number of one-off television plays. In 1976, following a visit to the United States where he observed at a playwrights' workshop, he wrote his first stage play, Glide Time, and became almost immediately this country's best-known and most commercially successful Dramatist. In 1987 he was awarded both a QSO and the Turnovsky award and in 1995 he received an honorary DLitt from Victoria University in recognition of his role in New Zealand Theatre. He was the 1997 Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellow. In 2003 he was made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for his services as a playwright. He also taught for a semester as visiting professor at Georgetown University's Centre for Australian and New Zealand Studies in Washington, D. C. In addition to Glide Time (Fortune 1977 and 1978), his box office smashes are Middle age Spread (Fortune 1978, 1979, 1982 and 2002), Prisoners of Mother england (Fortune 1980), Hot Water (Fortune 1983), the Share Club (Fortune 1987), after the Crash (Fortune 1988), Conjugal Rites (Fortune 1990 and 1992), By Degrees (Fortune 1993 and 1994), Social Climbers (Fortune 1995 and 1996), Market Forces (Fortune 1996),Take a Chance on Me (Fortune 2001), Taking Off (Fortune 2005) and Spreading Out (Fortune 2005). For the musical Theatre he wrote the books for the stage version of Footrot Flats (1983), Love off the Shelf (Fortune 1986, 1987 and 2004), the Hansard Show (Fortune 1989) and Dirty Weekends (Fortune 1997). He wrote the book and lyrics for Making it Big (Fortune 1991) and the linking narration for the revue of Philip Norman's songs, Where Would a Songwriter Be Without Love? (Fortune 1995). Interspersing these popular pieces and his pantomimes, CinderElla (Fortune 1978, new version Fortune 2006), Robin Hood (1979) and aladdin (1980, new version 2006), are a number of darker, more personal works. these include State of the Play (Fortune 1979), Fifty Fifty (Fortune 1981), the Rose (Fortune 1981), the Quiz (1981), Multiple Choice (Fortune 1984), Dream of Sussex Downs (1986) and a Way of Life (2001). In 1989 he wrote a short play, You Must Be Crazy, to support the work of the Volunteer Service abroad organisation. a one act play, Dynamite, was commissioned for Lunchtime Theatre at allen Hall in 1996. To celebrate its 40th anniversary, Wellington's Downstage Theatre commissioned Foolish acts which debuted there in September 2004. This year he co-wrote with his daughter, Pip, Who Needs Sleep anyway?, a piece commissioned to celebrate the centennial of the Plunket Society. It premiered here at the Fortune in May and was then taken on tour throughout Otago and SoutHLAnd. 2007 has seen two further new plays by Hall in New Zealand Theatres. In June the auckland Theatre Company premiered Who Wants to be 100?, a comedy featuring a trio of residents in an old people's home, which will be the Fortune's opening production in 2008. Circa Theatre, Wellington, is concluding it main house season for the year with his new pantomime, Jack and the Beanstalk, which will conclude the Fortune's 2008 season. Roger Hall has also written a number of works for solo performers - Mr Punch (Fortune 1989), C'mon Black (Fortune 1996), the Book Club (Fortune 1999) and You Gotta Be Joking (1999). Four of Hall's stage plays have inspired the popular television series Gliding On, Neighbourhood Watch, Conjugal Rites and Market Forces. In 2001 he was one of a trio of scriptwriters on the television satire series Spin Doctors. the BBC broadcast his radio play, the Dream Factory, in 1993. Bums on Seats, Hall's autobiography, was published in 1998 as was his textbook on playwriting, the Theatre Writer's Guide: Hot Tips for Good Scripts. Hall's plays repeatedly touch on marriage, work, politics and education. Through them he has held a mirror up to the New Zealand middle class, reflecting the ways in which its mores, opinions and obsessions have changed (or not, as the case may be) in the course of the four decades since his arrival in this country. Roger Hall's original version of aladdin is almost unique among his works in that it was first presented by amateurs. This new version opened at Wellington's Circa Theatre in November last year. Introducing it to Wellington audiences he wrote: "It's a great story combining magic, rags to riches, love, a great villain and possibly the greatest pantomime Dame, Widow Twankey." Writing of his love of the pantomime form at the time of the premiere of CinderElla he noted: "It's seemed sad to me for a long time that we have allowed the tradition of the Christmas pantomime to have almost died out in New Zealand. there are so few occasions when a visit to the Theatre can be a family affair - and a pantomime is one of them. the humour nearly always appeals as much to the adults as the children."

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         Adventures Of Robin Hood         After the Crash         Aladdin the Pantomime         Birthday Burglar, The         Book Club, The         By Degrees         Cinderella         Clean Up         C'mon Black         Conjugal Rites         Dick Whittington And His Cat         Dirty Weekends         Dream Of Sussex Downs         Dynamite         Fifty-Fifty         Footrot Flats         Four Flat Whites In Italy         Glide Time         Golf: A Love Story         Hansard Show, The         Hark Hark the Harp Or Rudolph's Highly Strung Adventure         Hot Water         Jack And the Beanstalk         Love Off the Shelf         Making It Big         Market Forces         Middle-Age Spread         Mr Punch         Multiple Choice         Prisonners Of Mother England         Quiz, The         Red Riding Hood         Robin Hood         Rose, The         Share Club, The         Short Cut To Happiness, A         Social Climbers         Spreading Out         State Of Play         Take A Chance On Me         Taking Off         Way Of Life, A         Who Needs Sleep Anyway?         Who Wants To Be 100?         You Can Always Hand Them Back         You Gotta Be Joking!         You Must Be Crazy
Adventures Of Robin Hood

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Notes:
Music by John Drummond

1st Produced:
Auckland     1979

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Genre:
Pantomime

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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After the Crash

Synopsis:
after a stock market crash has wiped out most of their assets a social club decides to buy and convert an old house

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1st Produced:
Dunedin     1988

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1st Published:
Playmarket, New Zealand   

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Aladdin the Pantomime

Synopsis:
Widow Twankey, with her son aladdin, runs a laundry in a country ruled by a Sultan and his beautiful daughter.

Notes:
Written by Paul Jenden, Roger Hall And Michael Nicholas Williams

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Organisations:
Circa

1st Published:
Playmarket, New Zealand   

Music:
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Genre:
Pantomime

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  (that's if you count the Dame as a man -- otherwise 4m, 3f!), and a dog (listed as a cat in the programme, but played by a dog).

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Birthday Burglar, The

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Genre:
One act Childrens

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  8            Other:  -

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Book Club, The

Synopsis:
a woman addicted to buying books joins a book club

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1st Published:
Playmarket, New Zealand   

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Genre:
Monologue play

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Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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By Degrees

Synopsis:
the experiences of four mature female students

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1st Published:
Playmarket, New Zealand   

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Cinderella

Synopsis:
Traditional full-scale pantomime, complete with Ugly Sisters, pantomime horse, and Bimble and Bumble, servants to the King (who is very fat and has to go on a diet, helped by the audience). Designed to be fun for adults and children, the script is full of visual as well as verbal humour.

Notes:
Written by Paul Jenden, Roger Hall And Michael Nicholas Williams

1st Produced:
Auckland     1978

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1st Published:
Playmarket, New Zealand   

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Genre:
Pantomime Pantomime

Parts:
Male:  13            Female:  7            Other:  -

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Clean Up

Synopsis:
an electric typewriter is stolen from under the noses of the office cleaners

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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C'mon Black

Synopsis:
a supporter of the all Blacks on a tour of South Africa

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Southwark Playhouse, London     13 Jul 1997

Organisations:
Circa Theatre

1st Published:
Playmarket, New Zealand   

Music:
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Genre:
Monologue play Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Conjugal Rites

Synopsis:
agony and ecstasy of the institution of marriage as wife is determined to get a job

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Palmerston North     1990

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1990   

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Dick Whittington And His Cat

Synopsis:
In a bygone era, long ago, brave young Dick leaves his home town (of Hawera) with, of course, his cat! He is on his way to Wellington seeking fame and fortune. What adventures await him! He meets the mayor, falls in love, stows away, is shipwrecked on a tropical island and is forced to fight the evil King Rat. and no matter where he travels, Dick cannot shake off his mother - a "poor lonely widow woman". Ohhhhhhhhh! Dick Whittington and his Cat stars a fantastic line-up of singing and acting talent - some old faces and some new.

Notes:
Music by Michael Nicholas Williams; lyrics by Paul Jenden; book by Roger Hall

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1st Published:
Playmarket, New Zealand   

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Genre:
Pantomime

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  large cast

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Dirty Weekends

Synopsis:
a gardening musical

Notes:
Music and lyrics by Philip Norman; book by Roger Hall

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playmarket, New Zealand   

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Dream Of Sussex Downs

Synopsis:
the three New Zealand sisters dream of "home" -england- and the Sussex Downs

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1st Produced:
Auckland     1986

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playmarket, New Zealand   

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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Dynamite

Synopsis:
a handsome hero. a damsel in distress. a wicked villain

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-     1996

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Victoria University Press, Wellington, 1982   

Music:
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Genre:
MeloDrama

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Fifty-Fifty

Synopsis:
George, 54 cannot understand why his wife has left him. She has trouble explaining it as well

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Auckland     1981

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playmarket, Wellington, 1984   

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Footrot Flats

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1st Produced:
Christchurch     1983

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Four Flat Whites In Italy

Synopsis:
the play is partly narrated by the character adrian, and the story follows him and his wife alison. alison and adrian are described in the script as uptight and v. uptight respectively. they have meticulously planned their Italian holiday right down to the last detail - the sights, the restaurants, churches and galleries. However, when their best friends drop out alison and adrian are forced to embark on the trip of a lifetime with a couple they barely know; new neighbours, Harry and Judy. Harry is a plumber from Bluff, and Judy is his new provocative, sexy, outgoing wife. This is character driven situational comedy at its best: adrian and alison constantly compare themselves to Harry and Judy, disguising envy with distaste. Must Judy lounge around in her bikini? While simultaneously forming intimate bonds with the other's partner. Will Harry and alison get along a little too well for comfort? every character gets knock out lines. Four Flat Whites in Italy is not just a comedy. Hall has a way of slipping in real human Drama in his comedies and it only makes it all the more enthralling.

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1st Produced:
New Zealand     2009

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playmarket, New Zealand   

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Glide Time

Synopsis:
the lives of those forced to work with each other in a job they all hate

Notes:
aka Roll On, Friday

1st Produced:
Wellington     1976

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Victoria University Press, Wellington, 1978   

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Golf: A Love Story

Synopsis:
No matter how badly you play, it's always possible to get worse. Despite spending most of his retirement on the golf course, Bill's days of early mornings, lessons from an over-priced South African, weekly rounds with pompous brother-in-laws, and copious amounts of painkillers are over. . . because Bill needs a new knee. But before his operation, Bill is determined to break a hundred, something he has never done before, and is not likely to do again.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Centrepoint, Palmerston North     18 Apr 2015

Organisations:
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Genre:
comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.theatreview.org.nz/reviews/production.php?id=4519

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Hansard Show, The

Synopsis:
Based on New Zealand Parliamentary debates - everything from the ablutions of barmaids to votes for women

Notes:
Music and lyrics by John Drummond; Nigel Eastgate; book by Roger Hall

1st Produced:
Wellington     1986

Organisations:
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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Hark Hark the Harp Or Rudolph's Highly Strung Adventure

Synopsis:
the new recruit in the Town Band - Rudolph and his second hand harp

Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playmarket, New Zealand   

Music:
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Genre:
One act Comedy

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Hot Water

Synopsis:
Christmas holiday in New Zealand. Granny has just arrived from england and the daughter turns up with a new husband - a Maori

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Auckland     1982

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Victoria University Press, Wellington, 1983   

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Jack And the Beanstalk

Synopsis:
Jack and his mother must sell Daisy the cow to pay the rent.

Notes:
Music by Michael Nicholas Williams; lyrics by Paul Jenden; book by Roger Hall

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Circa

1st Published:
Playmarket, New Zealand   

Music:
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Genre:
Pantomime

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Love Off the Shelf

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1st Produced:
Dunedin     1986

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, London,    

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Making It Big

Synopsis:
The rise and rise of a New Zealand country and western singer

Notes:
music by Philip Norman

1st Produced:
Dunedin     1991

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playmarket, New Zealand   

Music:
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Genre:
Drama with music

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Market Forces

Synopsis:
the characters from "Glide Time" twenty years later

Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playmarket, New Zealand   

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Middle-Age Spread

Synopsis:
as a conventional dinner proceeds a series of flashbacks to the preceding weeks shows hidden links and stresses among all three couples

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Wellington     1977

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Victoria University Press, Wellington, 1978   

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Mr Punch

Synopsis:
the life of poet Denis Glover

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Dunedin     1989

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playmarket, New Zealand   

Music:
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Genre:
Monologue play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Multiple Choice

Synopsis:
When a mother realises that her son is not happy at school and is not being taught properly - she decides to educate him at home

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Las Cruces, New Mexico     1983

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playmarket, New Zealand   

Music:
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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  11            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Prisonners Of Mother England

Synopsis:
a group of immigrants fro the United Kingdom arrive in New Zealand in 1958

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Dunedin     1979

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playmarket, Wellington, 1980   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Quiz, The

Synopsis:
a student gets a summer job and is quizzed by his fellow workers

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Dunedin    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in "On Stage 1", Longman Paul, auckland, 1983   

Music:
-

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One act Drama

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Red Riding Hood

Synopsis:
there's the innocent Red herself; her widowed mother and poor, sick, short-sighted Grandmother. there's a handsome Doc worker, a dastardly property developer, a double act of bumbling ex-politicians. and of course there's that villain of all villains, the wolf! Be prepared for frantic chases, running gags, much pillow-plumping, loose floorboards, packets of prunes and musical goodies in Red's basket as she sets off on her journey to entertain young and old with this terrific, traditional Christmas treat.
- http://www.theatreview.org.nz

Notes:
written by Roger Hall; lyrics by Paul Jenden; music by Michael Nicholas Williams

1st Produced:
Fortune Theatre, Dunedin, Nz     12 Nov 2010

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Playmarket, New Zealand   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Pantomime

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Robin Hood

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Music by Michael Nicholas Williams; lyrics by Paul Jenden; book by Roger Hall

1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Playmarket, New Zealand   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  42248            Female:  42248            Other:  -

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Rose, The

Synopsis:
a man decides he has no option but to assassinate the president

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Auckland     1981

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Playmarket, New Zealand   

Music:
-

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Genre:
One act Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Share Club, The

Synopsis:
the Share Club where no one has anything in common - except wanting to make money

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Dunedin     1987

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Playmarket, New Zealand   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Short Cut To Happiness, A

Synopsis:
the beautiful Natasha, a recent immigrant, from Russia, teaches such a class in order to supplement her income, meet Kiwis, and improve her english. Those who turn up to learn are the desperately-seeking Coral, golfing friends Laura and Janet, U3a know-it-all Bev, and her hen-pecked husband Ray. there's also the recently widowed Ned, a favourable catch for the ladies, and at whose house, after each class, they all gather for coffee.
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Notes:
-

1st Produced:
The Fortune Theatre, 231 Stuart Street, Dunedin 9016     18 Nov 2011

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Playmarket, New Zealand   

Music:
-

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Genre:
comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Social Climbers

Synopsis:
a group of teachers on a climbing holiday are forced to take refuge in a hillside chalet for several days

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
New Venture Theatre, Brighton     26/1998

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Playmarket, New Zealand   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Spreading Out

Synopsis:
The characters from "Middle Age Spread" 30 years later

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Playmarket, New Zealand   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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State Of Play

Synopsis:
a group of misfits join a playwright course

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Wellington     1978

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Playmarket, New Zealand   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Take A Chance On Me

Synopsis:
Six newly single people back on the dating scene

Notes:
-

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Playmarket, New Zealand   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Taking Off

Synopsis:
Four New Zealand women rather later in life than usual go to work overseas

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Playmarket, New Zealand   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Way Of Life, A

Synopsis:
a saga of a New Zealand farming family

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Playmarket, New Zealand   

Music:
-

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Drama

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Who Needs Sleep Anyway?

Synopsis:
Joys of being a parent

Notes:
Written with Pip Hall, Roger Hall And Michael Nicholas Williams

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Downstage

1st Published:
Playmarket, New Zealand   

Music:
-

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Genre:
comedy with songs Comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Who Wants To Be 100?

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Playmarket, New Zealand   

Music:
-

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Comedy

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You Can Always Hand Them Back

Synopsis:
You Can always Hand them Back, a show about grandparents. You Can always Hand them Back covers the different stages of being a grandparent: the long-awaited joyful arrival of the first grandchild; Grandpa taking the baby out in the pram; becoming providers of the free babysitting service; and having the little darlings stay over for the night. You Can always Hand them Back is an hilarious but insightful comedy about the highlight of the twilight years - doing it all over again in the baby trenches, grandparents dodge dirty nappies and deal with sleep deprivation and portable cribs. This show brings to light all the little pleasures and smelly surprises of the joys of grandparenting. You Can always Hand them Back is an hilarious but insightful comedy about the highlight of the twilight years - doing it all over again in the baby trenches, grandparents dodge dirty nappies and deal with sleep deprivation and portable cribs. This show brings to light all the little pleasures and smelly surprises of the joys of grandparenting.
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Notes:
Written by Roger Hall. Music And Lyrics by Peter Skellern

1st Produced:
Centrepoint, Palmerston North     14 Apr 2012

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
musical play

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You Gotta Be Joking!

Synopsis:
a young man leaves the country for the city - and hates it

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Monologue play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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You Must Be Crazy

Synopsis:
Four people on Volunteer abroad Service

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Wellington     1989

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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