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Bruce Mason Solo
Sound recordings of the works performed by the author were produced in the Wellington studios of Radio New Zealand.
Vagabonds
A troupe of actors travel through New Zealand in the 1860s and encounter Charlotte Badger, a female convict escaped from Australia.
Wednesday to Come
In Wednesday To Come Renée takes four women of four generations in a single family and looks at how they cope with the Great Depression of the 1930's. Working class women, says Renée, have been invisible for too long - not because they are inarticulate but because they are unrecorded. 'I am interested in writing good roles for women, about women we don;t see on the stage but who are all around us.'
Pass it on
"Pass It On is the middle play in the trilogy begun by Wednesday to Come and completed by Jeannie Once ... It is 1951, and the Waterfront Lockout has replaced the Depression as New Zealand's major social and political battleground. Jeannie and Cliff, the two adolescents who joined the hunger march in Wednesday to Come, have each grown up and married. Pass It On explores the very different experiences of Jeannie, the political activist, adn Cliff's wife Nell, and traces their relationship from initial distrust to a firm alliance against the political and economic forces which threaten their families. It celebrates the role of working class women during the Waterfront Lockout; their courage, their resilience and their humanity." -- Back cover.
Downstage Upfront
In its first 40 years, from conception to maturity, through stages of growth both painful and pleasurable, Downstage - New Zealand's first and longest running regional professional theatre company - has lived an extraordinary life. This large and lavishly illustrated 'biography' is published to celebrate Downstage's birthday. It covers all the drama and larger-than-life personalities that have characterised Downstage's life, and the many great productions such as Colin McColl's internationally acclaimed relocation of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler to Karori. A major contribution to New Zealand's cultural history.
Our Own Voice
Three English plays of the 1990's by Maori writers.
Nga Tangata Toa
Set on a marae on the East Coast in 1919 when a war weary soldier, Taneatua, returns from Europe a hero. A powerfully dramatic play of family secret, confrontation and revenge.
Jeannie Once
The third play in the trilogy begun by 'Wednesday to come' and 'Pass it on'.
Shuriken
The Japanese Military Field Code was explicit: 'Japanese forces do not surrender to the enemy under any circumstances.' How then would the eight hundred or so prisoners who found themselves in the first Japanese prisoner-of-war camp anywhere in the world behave? They had been brought from the Soloman Islands to Featherstone in 1942. Six months later an incident occurred in which forty-nine prisoners and one New Zealand guard were killed. Vincent O'Sullivan explores the implications of this event in a play which immediately rises above mere documentation to consider what happens when people of two cultures are brought together in such extreme circumstances, and when even the best intentions of those who try to offer sympathy and understanding fail in the face of ignorance and prejudice.
Verbatim
Every word of Verbatim comes directly from over 30 interviews with convicted murderers, with families of murder victims and with families of murderers themselves. From the transcripts of these interviews emerges an hour long solo show presenting six people plunged into the aftermath of a homicide.
