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Eli Kent

ELI KENT

  
Nationality:    New Zealander
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below is a list of Eli Kent's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         All Your Wants and Needs Fulfilled Forever         Black Confetti         Intricate Art Of Actually Caring, The         Like there's No Tomorrow         Rubber Turkey         Thinning         Tinderbox         Tom Keeper Passes

All Your Wants and Needs Fulfilled Forever

Synopsis:
All Your Wants and Needs Fulfilled Forever is an absurd comedy by The Play Ground Collective about a man (Simon Leary) who feels something fundamental in his life is missing. We watch him come into existence and then try and fill this hole inside him until it becomes evident that you always want something more than what you have. The piece explores identity and the (im)possibility of fulfilment.

Notes:
devised and performed by Simon Leary, Victoria Abbott, Joel Baxendale and Gareth Hobbs with director Robin Kerr and writer Eli Kent

1st Produced:
BATS Theatre (Out Of Site), Cnr Cuba & Dixon, Wellington     20 May 2014

Organisations:
PlayGround Collective

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
absurd comedy piece 90 min

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.theatreview.org.nz/reviews/production.php?id=3947

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Black Confetti

Synopsis:
Siggy is a Generation Y casualty. He maxed out his student loan; uni is ejecting him; his uncle is behaving strangely; and his father, a famous seismologist, has disappeared off the face of the earth. But Siggy is clever. and is curious. Together with his best mate, Elvis, he is on a mission to get some adhesive in his life and find out the truth about his dad. Packed full of big ideas and a squillion little surprises, poetry, mysteries and full on theatricality, BLaCK CONFeTTI is about the death of the party and surviving the earthquakes in our lives.
- http://www.theatreview.org.nz

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Herald Theatre, Aotea Centre, The Edge, Auckland     28 Jun 2012

Organisations:
auckland Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Intricate Art Of Actually Caring, The

Synopsis:
a comedy about apathy. Meet at Glover Park. Walk to eli's bedroom. Take your seats. Witness: Two boys, hanging out, drinking beers, riffing on Wellington, popular culture and girls. the death of their friend sparks a journey to Jerusalem, and the bedroom becomes a car, the North Island, and James. K Baxter's grave. a comedy about apathy, it tells the story of two young poets on a trip to Jerusalem to see the grave of our nation's greatest poet. It explores James K. Baxter's prophecy of a country void of love, asking - has what he preached come to pass? a two man show, the story is told through narration, poetry and original music to explore the themes of masculinity, growing up, death and loss. Kent: "We wanted to explore our identity - young Kiwis growing up with no icons of our own - Baxter's kind of the Kiwi anti-icon, but he's still an icon. these characters want an identity and they misguidedly search for that in Baxter". Last year, eli brought the script to director eleanor, and they began thinking about venues. Suddenly they thought "Let's do it in eli's bedroom. . .it'll be intimate, it'll force us to be imaginative with our staging, it can be surreal - you'll be on the bed but it'll be a car - the Wanganui river rushing past outside".

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Glover Park | Eli's Bedroom, Wellington     10 Feb 2009

Organisations:
the Playground Collective

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
75 min One act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Like there's No Tomorrow

Synopsis:
It's the school after-ball. It's cancelled. It's illegal. And you're invited. Several weeks ago a student died at a party on the Shore. Drunk and daring, he dived off a roof into a swimming pool, but missed the pool. As a result of the tragedy, the after-ball has been banned. But, whatever - rules are made to be broken and Joseph's friends are brewing up a night to remember. Some, though, just want to forget.
- http://www.theatreindc.com

Notes:
based on an original concept by Lynne Cardy

1st Produced:
Basement, Lower Greys Ave, Auckland     27 Jul 2013

Organisations:
PlayGround Collective

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
piece

Parts:
Male:  15            Female:  15            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Rubber Turkey

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
2008 Chapman Tripp winner - Outstanding New Playwright of the Year for Rubber Turkey

1st Produced:
Nz International Comedy Festival     2008

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Thinning

Synopsis:
a dreamer, a joker, a rebel, a slacker, a soldier and a wallflower& people you love people you hate and people just like you. Six high school graduates' lives are about to change course forever following a summer spent apple thinning in Nelson. there'll be break-ups, hook-ups, new loves, drunken nights& and, of course, lots and lots of apples. THINNINGis an exciting new work about growth and gravity by eli Kent (Chapman Tripp award for Outstanding New Playwright of the Year 2008)

Notes:
part of the Young & Hungry Festival of New theatre began At BaTS theatre

1st Produced:

Organisations:
auckland Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Tinderbox

Synopsis:
the PlayGround Collective's the Tinderbox is an epic adventure based on Hans Christian andersen's classic fairytale of a soldier who comes upon a magic tinderbox. Can he resist the temptation to use it for evil? Will he find redemption and save the woman he loves? Or will he fall prey to those who will do anything to get their hands on the Tinderbox? a visual and aural feast, the play creates a world where the enchantment of fairytales meets the horrific reality of war on a backdrop reminiscent of the Wild West a place where revenge, redemption and courage rein. With extraordinary design, innovative and imaginative storytelling devices are used such as puppetry, shadow play and object transformation to create a work with poetic depth and emotional resonance.
- www.theatreview.org.nz

Notes:
Based on the fairytale by Hans Christian Andersen; Writer: eli Kent & the PlayGround Collective; Original Music & Lyrics: Gareth Hobbs

1st Produced:
Bats, Wellington     25 Nov 2011

Organisations:
the PlayGround Collective

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
piece

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Tom Keeper Passes

Synopsis:
the bees have gone. No one quite knows why. One day they were there and the next they weren't.
- www.theatreview.org.nz

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Te Whaea Theatre, 11 Hutchison Rd, Wellington     03 Feb 2012

Organisations:
Whitireia New Zealand's Long Cloud Youth Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
piece

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

Further Reference:
-

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