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Richard Mays

RICHARD MAYS

  (1952 - )
Nationality:    New Zealander
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Born in 1952, Richard Mays has acted for both professional and amateur theatre. He now works as a radio announcer for Radio New Zealand. He became a 'playwright' by virtue of owning a typewriter and being unemployed. Most of his plays so far have been the result of collaborations, his first efforts coming while he was a Drama Studies student at Victoria University. In 1974 he wrote ANTOINE EMPEROR; described as 'showing promise', he may re-write it one day. MEANSKIN'S MAGIC MASQUERADE was a collaboration with Vagabond Theatre and in 1975 he collaborated with Christine Kraus and Harold Merriman to write STAND for the Wellington Tenants' Union. As a member of the infamous Red Dragon Theatre, he wrote THE SUN'S GONNA SHINE ON OUR BACK DOOR SOME DAY, SHE'S A LADY/LIVING DOLL, a political theatre manifesto and odd bits of agit-prop. He has just completed a kids' play that he began with Harold Merriman and Red Dragon Theatre in 1975, THE ROOSTER CROWS AT MIDNIGHT (1979)

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below is a list of Richard Mays's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Antoine Emperor         Meanskin's Magic Masquerade         Rooster Crows At Midnight, The
Antoine Emperor

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Meanskin's Magic Masquerade

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A group of players decide to animate a story. A mysterious stranger startles the inhabitants of a small town, who are subsequently put under the power of a witch's cat. They are rescued by a dithery wizard and a pickpocket ... room for audience involvement and improvisation round plot.

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Vagabond Theatre, NZ     1974

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Playmarket   

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Childrens one act play

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Rooster Crows At Midnight, The

Synopsis:
Based on an episode from the novel GAO YU-BAO by Gao Yu-bao. A landlord tricks his farmhands into working extra hours. The workers get their own back. To be acted for and by children.

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written by Richard Mays and Harold Merriman

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Genre:
Childrens one act play

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  7 actors + musician

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