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DAVE ARMSTRONG |
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Nationality: New Zealander Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: PlaymarketInc |
Dave has written extensively for stage and television. He co-created the crazy Semisi family for TV3´s Skitz, is script editor for the highly successful animated comedy series Bro´ Town, and was a writer for the PR political satire Spin Doctors, for which he won an AFTA television award (best comedy script). Dave co-wrote, with Naked Samoan Oscar Kightley, the play Niu Sila, which will have its Auckland premier with the Auckland Theatre Company next year. Dave´s adaptation of Margaret Mahy´s children´s story The Singing Bus Queue was performed at Wellington´s Downstage Theatre for two seasons as well as around the country. Dave is currently completing The Tutor - a full-length play commissioned by Wellington´s Circa Theatre. Dave has also written a book, True Colours - an account of the 1996 General Election.
Plays by Dave Armstrong
Christmas Carol, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Playmarket, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #54019 | |||
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Genre: | Pantomime | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Dickens´ classic is hilariously updated to nineties New Zealand. A blisteringly funny attack on free market economics as well as a timeless heartwarming family yarn. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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King and Country | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #96334 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Le Sud | ||
| 1st Produced: | Maidment Theatre, Auckland, NY | 11 Feb 2010 | ||||
Company: | Auckland Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #96335 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Synopsis: | Armstrong's latest play is a wickedly revisionist satire that imagines the South Island or "Le Sud" was claimed by the French in 1838. 170 years on and Zelande du Sud is now an independent, prosperous French-speaking socialist nation where people work 30 hours a week, enjoy long wine-fuelled lunches, and the popular Prime Minister, Francois Duvauchelle, is a renowned womaniser. Meanwhile, poor old English-speaking North Zealand is starved of electricity and Prime Minister, Jim Peterson, must lead a delegation south to persuade their rich neighbours to get the goodwill - and the electricity - flowing north. A provocative comedy, LE SUD pokes fun at three cultures, two islands and one country. | |||||
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Motor Camp, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Circa One, Wellington | 22 Jan 2011 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #124309 | |||
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Genre: | camping comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | based on a story by Danny Mulheron | |||||
Synopsis: | The Motor Camp sees two couples, two caravans, two teenagersarrive at a motor camp and have to park next to each other. As both families try to enjoy their holiday and keep their hormonal teenagers apart, a hilarious series of events unfolds. Frank Redmond (Tim Spite), a left-wing literacy lecturer, just wants to spend a quiet Christmas holiday at an isolated camping ground with his family - long-suffering wife Jude (Danielle Mason) and their 15-year-old daughter Holly (Florence Mulheron), who'd much rather be at the Mount with her boyfriend. The Windmill Holiday Camp, though run by the overzealous and authoritarian Dutchie, seems the perfect desolate location for Frank to finally finish his book on literacy. Enter Mike Hislop (Phil Vaughan), a garrulous redneck builder from the next-door caravan. Mikes social-climbing partner, Dawn Tairoa (Olivia Robinson), seems unable to impress the Redmonds no matter how many naughty cocktails she offers them. When her stroppy hormonal teenage son, Jared (Anthony Young), takes a shine to Holly, sparks fly between the younger and older generation, and between the families. The Motor Camp is a glorious celebration of our annual Kiwi camping rituals. | |||||
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Niu Sila | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playmarket, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #54020 | |||
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Genre: | full length Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | written by Dave Armstrong and Oscar Kightley | |||||
Synopsis: | This theatrical two-hander was inspired by Armstrong´s upbringing. Two childhood mates, a Samoan and a Palagi, discover cultural difference and commonality in a ´60s suburb. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Rita and Douglas | ||
| 1st Produced: | Queenstown Memorial Hall, Queenstown, NZ | 12 Apr 2011 | ||||
Company: | Southern Lakes Festival of Colour | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #128790 | |||
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Genre: | Piece 75 min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | The letters of Rita Angus to Douglas 'Gordon' Lilburn adapted for the stage by Dave Armstrong . With music for piano by Lilburn | |||||
Synopsis: | Rita Angus and Douglas Lilburn met in the early 1940s. The recently divorced painter and the young composer had a brief but passionate affair. Living in virtual poverty and struggling with health issues, Rita Angus went on to single-mindedly produce a stunning body of work. Rita and Douglas combines Angus' images, and her own words from her letters to Lilburn, together with his music for piano, performed live by Michael Houstoun. | |||||
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Singing Bus Queue Comedy, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playmarket, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #54021 | |||
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Genre: | Musical Comedy Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Adapted from the story by Margaret Mahy | |||||
Synopsis: | A queue of children and adults start to sing while they´re waiting for the bus. But when Captain Hannibal complains about the noise, the Tone Deaf Squad take them off to Black Prison. Will the power of music get them out? | |||||
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Swing Shift | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #80300 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Music (new) by Michael Rafter; lyrics (new) by Mark Waldrop; songs of the World War Two period; book by David Armstrong | |||||
Synopsis: | Two women have their lives changed when their men go off to war and they take jobs. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Tutor, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #96336 | |||
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Genre: | comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | depicts the collision of personalities and politics when a self-made millionaire hires a washed-out, Daihatsu-driving hippy to save his rebellious teenage son's math grades. The result is a comedy of (bad) manners with heart. | |||||
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