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Jo Holsted

JO HOLSTED  

 Nationality:    New Zealand
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below is a list of Jo Holsted's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Chop/Stick         Stranger Things

Chop/Stick

Synopsis:
There was a time when the idea of eating sushi for lunch would be met by a grossed-out face and making a curry for dinner was only for the culinary adventurous. Nowadays, it's a fair guess that soy sauce is as much a kiwi pantry staple as Marmite, and is as mixed into our cuisine as blood is mixed in our kiwi veins. The modern New Zealand experience is an amalgamation of all the immigrant cultures that now make up our population; which is fitting because haven't we all basically come from somewhere else anyway? As such, isn't it about time we reevaluated our ideas of identity? What does ethnic (*shudder) even mean and can it really be taken at face value any longer. We need a fresh (pun intended) take on how we view Us ; New Zealanders, and Them ; whomever that means. CHOP/STICK presents an irreverent style of social commentary that is more a gentle prod to the consciousness as opposed to a suspenseful drama. Audiences will be taken into an experiment. We took one actress and turned her into 13 different characters. Can the audience be convinced to suspend their prejudices (and their eyes) and watch an Asian (another nonsensical cringe word) actress become characters that are outside the boundaries of what we see her as? It's topical. It's hilarious. Yes, it's a theme that has been explored before, but not in this way. And there are stereotypes. Plenty of them. But they were really, really thought about. CHOP/STICK was born from the frustration of an actress feeling she would never have an opportunity to play outside her ethnicity, and a writer interested in the absurd complexities of cultural diversity requiring stereotyping of cultural identity. Jo Holsted and Michelle Ang are new on the Auckland theatre circuit. Having watched a fair bit of local theatre they decided to bring life to a script they started years ago whilst in Barcelona. They are writing, producing and promoting this project themselves.
- http://www.theatreview.org.nz

Notes:
writen by by Jo Holsted and Michelle Ang

1st Produced:
Basement Theatre, Lower Greys Ave, Auckland    20 Nov 2012

Organisations:
Chairman Meow Productions

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Stranger Things

Synopsis:
It's 2010. It's 2012. It's 2020. Linda and Bede work for minimum wage in telecommunications. Financial reality is closing in on Woman and her Playwright. and Madeline and Nick can't stop saving for a future that never arrives. Will they find a way out?

Notes:
part of Currency: three new works on the "money crisis"

1st Produced:
Happy (Cnr Tory & Vivian), Wellington    02 Feb 2010

Organisations:
Green Shoots Productions

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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