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HARRY LOVE |
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Nationality: New Zealand Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Harry Love is a director, actor and classical scholar, best known for his translations of Greek classics over a period of two decades. His comedy All's Well that Ends was awarded the prize for best Dunedin scripts at the inaugural Duneidn Theatre Awards in 2010. His performance as Estragon in Beckett's Waiting for Godot won national acclaim. He is presently Honorary Fellow at theUniversity ofOtago's Department of Classics.
Plays by Harry Love
Alls Well That Ends. . . | ||
| 1st Produced: | Globe Theatre, Dunedin, NZ | 12 Aug 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 | #118515 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | Music by Stephen Stedman | |||||
Synopsis: | Aristophanes, you may recall, wrote very funny plays with lots of songs, slapstick and bizarre characters, which poked sharp sticks at all the institutions the ancient Greeks (no more than ourselves) took so seriously war, law, education, philosophy, wealth and, of course, politics. He now returns to the stage in his own person, washed up in Limbo with his old bete noir, Socrates, and together they explore religion and pursue all the reasonable, and some unreasonable, expectations of eternal life, such as, Is paradise like the old life, but without the bad bits? And are we there yet? | |||||
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Hurai | ||
| 1st Produced: | Dunedin | 2009 | ||||
Company: | joint production by theUniversity of Otago's School of Maori Studies, and Departments of Classics and Theatre Studies | |||||
| 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 | #137276 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | chorus | |||||
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Synopsis: | Hurai is a powerful and engaging play which explores the complex relationship between cultures at the origins of modern day Aotearoa/New Zealand. The play draws upon both European and Maori strands of cultural heritage, interweaving a story loosely based upon Papahurihia, a Maori religious leader from the Bayof Islandsin the 1830s, with the dramatic structure of the classical Greek play The Bacchae. The action centres around Thomas Keene, a fictional English missionary who tries to fulfil his own conception of religious duty, but who is led inexorably into conflict. His adversary Papa preaches a potent mix of Maori and Old Testament lore, calling his religious followers Hurai (Jews), reflecting a belief that Maori are the children of Shem, the lost tribe of Israel. | |||||
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