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ELI KENT |
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Plays by Eli Kent |
Intricate Art of Actually Caring, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Glover Park | Eli's Bedroom, Wellington | 10 Feb 2009 | ||||
Company: | The Playground Collective | |||||
| 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 | #113026 | |||
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Genre: | 75 min One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | A comedy about apathy. Meet at Glover Park. Walk to Eli's bedroom. Take your seats. Witness: Two boys, hanging out, drinking beers, riffing on Wellington, popular culture and girls. The death of their friend sparks a journey to Jerusalem, and the bedroom becomes a car, the North Island, and James. K Baxter's grave. A comedy about apathy, it tells the story of two young poets on a trip to Jerusalem to see the grave of our nation's greatest poet. It explores James K. Baxter's prophecy of a country void of love, asking - has what he preached come to pass? A two man show, the story is told through narration, poetry and original music to explore the themes of masculinity, growing up, death and loss. Kent: "We wanted to explore our identity - young Kiwis growing up with no icons of our own - Baxter's kind of the Kiwi anti-icon, but he's still an icon. These characters want an identity and they misguidedly search for that in Baxter". Last year, Eli brought the script to director Eleanor, and they began thinking about venues. Suddenly they thought "Let's do it in Eli's bedroom. . .it'll be intimate, it'll force us to be imaginative with our staging, it can be surreal - you'll be on the bed but it'll be a car - the Wanganui river rushing past outside". | |||||
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Rubber Turkey | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2008 | ||||
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 | #113027 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | 2008 Chapman Tripp winner - Outstanding New Playwright of the Year for Rubber Turkey | |||||
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Thinning | ||
| 1st Produced: | 08 Jul 2010 | |||||
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 | #116638 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | part of The Young & Hungry Festival of New Theatre began at BATS Theatre | |||||
Synopsis: | A dreamer, a joker, a rebel, a slacker, a soldier and a wallflower& people you love people you hate and people just like you. Six high school graduates' lives are about to change course forever following a summer spent apple thinning in Nelson. There'll be break-ups, hook-ups, new loves, drunken nights& and, of course, lots and lots of apples. THINNINGis an exciting new work about growth and gravity by Eli Kent (Chapman Tripp Award for Outstanding New Playwright of the Year 2008) | |||||
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Tinderbox | ||
| 1st Produced: | BATS, Wellington | 25 Nov 2011 | ||||
Company: | The PlayGround Collective | |||||
| 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 | #134245 | |||
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Genre: | piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Based on the fairytale by Hans Christian Andersen; Writer: Eli Kent & The PlayGround Collective; Original Music & Lyrics: Gareth Hobbs | |||||
Synopsis: | The PlayGround Collective's The Tinderbox is an epic adventure based on Hans Christian Andersen's classic fairytale of a soldier who comes upon a magic tinderbox. Can he resist the temptation to use it for evil? Will he find redemption and save the woman he loves? Or will he fall prey to those who will do anything to get their hands on the Tinderbox? A visual and aural feast, the play creates a world where the enchantment of fairytales meets the horrific reality of war on a backdrop reminiscent of the Wild West a place where revenge, redemption and courage rein. With extraordinary design, innovative and imaginative storytelling devices are used such as puppetry, shadow play and object transformation to create a work with poetic depth and emotional resonance. | |||||
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Tom Keeper Passes | ||
| 1st Produced: | TE WHAEA THEATRE, 11 Hutchison Rd, Wellington | 03 Feb 2012 | ||||
Company: | Whitireia New Zealands Long Cloud Youth Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #136415 | |||
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Genre: | piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | large cast | |||||
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Synopsis: | The bees have gone. No one quite knows why. One day they were there and the next they weren't. | |||||
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