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ARTHUR MEEK |
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Arthur Meek: Short listed for the 2009 Bruce Mason Playwriting award, Collapsing Creation represents a bold new direction into dramatic work for writer, Arthur Meek, who is better known for his comedic talents. In 2008, he won the Chapman Tripp Award for Best Male Newcomer for his performance in the Downstage production of On the Conditions and Possibilities of Helen Clark Taking Me as Her Young Lover. He was also nominated for a Billy T award in 2009 as part of The Lonesome Buckwhips.
Plays by Arthur Meek
Collapsing Creation | ||
| 1st Produced: | 28 Nov 2009 | |||||
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| 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 | #106606 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Notes: | commissioned by the Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution as part of worldwide celebrations marking the publication of Darwin's masterpiece: On the Origin of Species. | |||||
Synopsis: | In 1859, Darwin's theory of evolution shook humanity, confronted science and challenged religion, including the profound faith of his beloved wife Emma. Arthur Meek's bold new play Collapsing Creation explores the courage of a visionary who must battle his conscience and soul to change the world - and find the strength to face the fallout. | |||||
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Dark Stars | ||
| 1st Produced: | Basement Theatre, Lower Greys Ave, Auckland | 10 Feb 2012 | ||||
Company: | DS PRODUCTIONS | |||||
| 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 | #136503 | |||
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Genre: | 60 min piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | In seeking his big acting break, Council is propelled by misfortune to a tiny island in the Pacific where he unearths the forgotten story ofAustralasia's popular Black Minstrel, Irving Sayles. Dark Stars weaves together the stories of two African-Americans living a hundred years apart in an examination of racist humour and the price paid for lusting after fame at the expense of dignity. Sayles was an entertainer with one of the largest minstrel companies in the midWestern USproviding audiences with stereotypical presentations of African American culture. After the Civil War in 1888 and aged just 16, he fled toAustralia. He subsequently became a well loved figure on the Australian stage moving to New Zealand to continue his career in vaudeville until his untimely death on a Christchurch street in 1914. | |||||
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On The Upside-Down of the World | ||
| 1st Produced: | Concert Chamber - Town Hall, THE EDGE, Auckland | 01 Jul 2011 | ||||
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 | #131602 | |||
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Genre: | 95 min Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | based on Our Maoris, the memoirs of Lady Ann Martin | |||||
Synopsis: | Suppressed for 150 years, the Auckland Theatre Company's latest work uncovers the words of a woman who dared to challenge colonial injustice. A crippled English woman arrives from London to a savage land. Charged with civilising the natives, she instead discovers the key to her liberation. Lady Ann Martin came to New Zealand in 1841, the young wife of New Zealand's first chief justice. Intrepid, intelligent and possessing a great sense of humour, she disregarded her personal disability, set about learning Te Reo, established a makeshift hospital for Maori on the beach at Judges Bay and dared to dream of all that was possible in this brave new world. | |||||
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Richard Meros Salutes The Southern Man | ||
| 1st Produced: | BATS, Wellington | 08 Mar 2012 | ||||
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 | #137432 | |||
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Genre: | adaptation 60 min | |||||
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Notes: | Adapted from the book by Richard Meros, by Geoff Pinfield and Arthur Meek | |||||
Synopsis: | He tried to save New Zealand by becoming Helen Clark's young lover... He failed. Now, the Chapman-Tripp award-winning Richard Meros is back, with a new nuclear-PowerPoint to prove the number-8 wire nation faces extinction, our pioneer culture eclipsed by the globalised Fonterra farmer with a Facebook account. Meros alone holds the key to our salvation the craggy New Zealand hardness that still glimmers within the most urbane of latte-drinkers. The spirit of The Southern Man. There will be politicking and merchandise, so bring cash. | |||||
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Sheep | ||
| 1st Produced: | BATS, Wellington | 25 May 2011 | ||||
Company: | Long Clod 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 | #128533 | |||
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Genre: | 90 min drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 12 young actors | |||||
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Synopsis: | SHEEP is about products and people, technology and biology, and the tangled relationship between us and our means of production. 24 young actors perform six short snapshots linked by family and the journey of wool from sheep's back to wearable product. Starting in a Canterbury whorehouse in 1863, and ending in Christchurch in the aftermath of the 2011 earthquake, SHEEP is a series of quirky meetings between young people who are trying to make their lives better in the face of an increasingly complex relationship between technology and biology. SHEEP asks whether these things exist to serve us, or we exist to serve them. | |||||
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