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Victor Rodger

VICTOR RODGER

  (1969 - )
Nationality:    Samoan New Zealanderer
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Literary Agent:    n/a

Victor Rodger's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

         At the Wake         Black Faggot         Cunning Stunts         Girl On a Corner         My Name is Gary Cooper         Ranterstantrum         Sons         Village People

At the Wake

Synopsis:
Family issues erupt in At the Wake, with hilarious And dark consequences. Is it ever Appropriate to discuss your sex life At A funeral? What if you Are 70, And it's your own daughter's funeral? Robert, A half-Samoan ex-pat returns to New Zealand to Accompany his palangi grandmother to his mother's funeral. But potty-mouthed Joan is hardly A conventional grandmother - she smokes like A chimney And drinks like A fish; she loves men but hates Robert's father with A passion, And she will make sure EVERYBODY knows it.
- http://www.theatreview.org.nz

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1st Produced:
Centrepoint, Palmerston North    28 Jul 2012

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
black comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Black Faggot

Synopsis:
A series of (mostly) humorous monologues from a vast array of (mostly) gay Samoan characters. From a camp, closeted member of Destiny Church who finds himself on the Enough is Enough march against the Civil Union Bill, to a butch Hamo homo who is loudly and unapologetically gay; from an anal Samoan clean freak who's annoyed that his partner's just orgasmed on their new brand new bedspread to an award winning fa'afafine artist who relishes explaining the true meaning behind her new work Cracker Wanna Poly. Set against the rise of Destiny Church and incorporating the current controversy surrounding the Same Sex Marriage Bill currently before Parliament, BLACK FAGGOT is an often hilarious but always provocative piece of work from one of New Zealand's leading playwrights.
- http://www.theatreview.org.nz

Notes:
Auckland Fringe 2013

1st Produced:
Basement Theatre, Lower Greys Ave, Auckland    16 Feb 2013

Organisations:
Multinesia

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
60 min gay monologues

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Cunning Stunts

Synopsis:
Jain discovers love bites on her boyfriend

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Girl On a Corner

Synopsis:
Early one morning in 1997 Eddie Murphy picked up Shalimar Seiuli, a Samoan fa'afafine prostitute, on Santa Monica Boulevard. Their brief encounter sparked an epic Hollywood media scandal. The next year Shalimar was dead. In Victor Rodger's Girl on a Corner, Shalimar gets to tell her brief life story and offer some variations on what may or may not have happened.

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1st Produced:
Basement, Lower Greys Ave, Auckland    09 Feb 2015

Organisations:
Auckland Fringe & Auckland Pride 2015

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Gay/Lesbian, of interest

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.theatreview.org.nz/reviews/production.php?id=4290

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My Name is Gary Cooper

Synopsis:
My Name is Gary Cooper is a roller-coaster ride through cultural appropriation and the impact of the American film industry on the South Pacific (and vice-versa)

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Ranterstantrum

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Sons

Sons
A young half-Samoan man goes home after ten years away. His Father is dying and he hopes he will now tell him about his siblings that he has never met

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1st Published:
Huia Publishers, New Zealand (2008)   978-1-86969-303-9

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Village People

Synopsis:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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