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Lower NZI, Level 1, Aotea Centre, Auckland

17 Nov 2009

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

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Play/Drama

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ensemble of actors and dancers

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Set during the infamous "Musket Wars" in the early 1800s, the epic tale sees Scotsman Mason, having fled to New Zealand, looking for land he can make his own. Receiving refuge from the ariki (chief) Aoraki comes at a price - Mason is now considered a mokai (pet) amongst Aoraki's tribe. Hine, a woman Aoraki gives Mason as a wife, has lived a life of servitude and is desperate to escape. She sees in her new husband the ambition he continually denies. Seeing her chance, she finally ignites Mason's drive, which she hopes will set her free. But not without perilous consequences. Inspired by the works of Shakespeare, Torrance's approach to his new play was to craft a story within an era that has long captured his interest "I have always been interested in the period of NZ history of the early 1800's - the dynamics of the initial first contact between Mâori and Pakeha. I wrote Flintlock Musket inspired also by Shakespeare's Macbeth - I always saw it as a tribal story which would fit in well in the NZ landscape, and the tribal construct of early society here," says Torrance.

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

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scooped the "Most Original Production", "Outstanding New Playwright" and "Most Promising New Director" at the 2003 Chappman Tripp Theatre Awards

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