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JOSEPH HARPER |
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Plays by Joseph Harper |
Bikes Ive Owned Versus Girls Ive Fallen In Love With | ||
| 1st Produced: | Tararua Tramping Club, Mt Victoria, Wellington, NZ | 06 May 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 | #133337 | |||
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Genre: | 60 min comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | A show about irrational relationships with bicycles, and misanthropy. Highly idiosyncratic 2011 Billy T Award Nominee, Joseph Harper, has written an autobiographical show to examine his personal experiences with girls and bicycles. The show touches on cyclic-eroticism, adolescent sexuality, severe depression, Chinamans Hill, and Sarah Ulmer. In spite of the at times dangerous' subject matter, Harper refuses to let his show veer into unpleasant and unwanted, offensive waters; it remains meditative, honest and analytical throughout. | |||||
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Boy And the Bicycle, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | NZWine Cellar, St Kevins Arcade (K Rd), Auckland | 12 Oct 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 | #133158 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Joseph Harper wrote this play last year as his graduation piece while studying playwrighting at Unitec, under Gary Henderson. The play was the inaugral winner of Playmarket New Zealand's Playwrights B4 25 competition. | |||||
Synopsis: | The show is about my mental illness, says Harper. A set of abstractions and parables trying to express what my depression is and why it is and what has been and is to be done. That sounds really narcissistic and self-indulgent, but I don't think it's that kind of show. I think a lot of people feel like this, even if they only feel it a little bit. And it's a confusing thing and sometimes it goes away, but it was there and they know it. And knowing that this thing is, can make you feel pretty uneasy. And I think it's good to talk about this stuff or to think about it because maybe it changes how you see this thing in yourself or in other people. And that doing that (looking at this bit of us) is hard sometimes. But it's also helpful and can make you feel good, or like you're a part of everything. or at least not alone, y'know. this show features: big black dogs, adolescent misanthropy, outsider cello soundscapes, Sir Edmund Hillary, post-spectacle lighting', and a talking bicycle. it's a pretty subjective kind of thing, but intentionally so. expressionist or something. it's a black comedy. or a philosophical tragi-comedy or something. | |||||
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Do You Love Me? | ||
| 1st Produced: | Auckland: Te Karanga Gallery, 208 Karangahape Rd, Auckland 1010, New Zealand >>> | 13 Apr 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 | #113851 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | part of The Monster Monologues | |||||
Synopsis: | Joseph Harper's interesting Do You Love Me? has Lara Fischel-Chisolm at first seeming to play a sort of theatrical ode to her parents. A most convincing spunky young 18-year old emo-punk type girl with a typical teenage air of self-satisfied smugness, she describes her formative years as a tumultuous ride involving every parent's nightmares of drugs, sex and debauchery. Also typical of teens, her main agenda appears to be to prove her parents wrong no matter what, and given their unconditional love for her the only way she can achieve that is apparently to be as entirely unlovable as she can. | |||||
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Honey | ||
| 1st Produced: | Freds, 46 Frederick Street, Wellington | 16 Feb 2012 | ||||
Company: | NZ Fringe Festival 2012 | |||||
| 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 | #136693 | |||
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Genre: | piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Honey never goes off. They found honey in Egypt, in the pyramids, in a pot or something, and they tried it and it was still really delicious and good. This play is about love and is about the universe and the mouse/cheese dynamic and will contain earnestness and stories and singing and flesh and shitty lyricism and honesty and almost certainly some kissing. It's about love. | |||||
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