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Bats Plays
Paperback Edition: 1
Six seminal plays from Ken Duncum and Rebecca Rodden, whose playwriting partnership powered the vibrant theatre scene round Wellingtons BATS Theatre in the 1980s and 90s.
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Boldly inventive, darkly comic and ceaselessly imaginative, the plays collected here present a chilling one-woman vision of alienation (Polythene
Pam); the comic and tragic impossibility of human connection (Truelove); an irresponsible punk couple horrified to find theyve become parents to the Messiah (Flybaby); conjoined twins plunged into an off-kilter world of rampant advertising, animal terrorism and a perfume made from monkey semen (cult-classic JISM); a real-life 20th-century martyr tested to his limits in the afterlife by a vengeful gang of defrocked saints (The Temptations of St Max); and the not-so-quiet desperation of a fearful hoarder fighting to survive the night hours (Panic!). Supporting the plays are introductions and selected images from the writers and other BATS practitioners which vividly recapture a crucial time and place in New Zealands theatre history. Featured in the 9 January 2017 New Zealand Newsletter.
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Pages : 382
Publisher : Te Herenga Waka University Pre
Publication date : 2016-12-01
Subjects: Non-fiction, Art/design/film