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Riwia Brown

RIWIA BROWN  (1957 - )

 Nationality:    New Zealand/aotearoan
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Literary Agent:    Playmarket Inc  


Riwia Brown ( Ngati Porou, Te Whanau-a-apanui and Taranaki) has been involved with Maori Theatre in Wellington since the early eighties, performing as an actor with Te Ohu Whakaari. Her first play Roimata premiered at The Depot Theatre in 1988 and was later adapted for television and published in He Reo Hou a collection of Maori plays. She continued to write successfully for theatre and in 1992 adapted alan Duff's novel Once Were Warriors into an acclaimed film. Since then she has worked on several national and international film and television projects as well as two further plays. Riwia lives in Paekakariki, north of Wellington

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below is a list of Riwia Brown's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Debate, The         Irirangi Bay         Nga Wahine (The Woman)         Roimata         Soldier Woman         Te Hokinga

Debate, The

Synopsis:
Should Maori be the national language of New Zealand? The debate between a Maori and Pakeha school deviates from what one would expect when the Pakeha team draws the affirmative. Written for young people

Notes:
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1st Produced:
BATS Theatre, Wellington. NZ    1994

Organisations:
Young & Hungry

1st Published:
Playmarket,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Irirangi Bay

Synopsis:
The consequences of a makutu (curse) laid during the New Zealand land wars haunts this passionate story. a seemingly perfect married couple of the 1950's are victims of a web of secrets that threaten their very lives.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Taki Rua, Wellington. NZ    1996

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in Ta Matou Mangai (ed. Hone Kouka), VUP, 1999   -

Music:
-

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Nga Wahine (The Woman)

Synopsis:
Dana is a young Maori student who finds herself pregnant. Moana is a well-educated, successful, married older woman also pregnant. The play is set in the labour ward of a maternity hospital

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Taki Rua, Wellington. NZ    1992

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Playmarket,    -

Music:
-

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Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Roimata

Synopsis:
Roimata, having been brought up on the East Coast by her grandmother, comes to the city to stay with her half-sister Girlie. There she meets Eddy, the leader of an urban gang, and Kevin, a childhood friend who has since joined the Salvation army

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
The Depot, Wellington. NZ    1988

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Playmarket, in He Reo Hou, 1991   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Soldier Woman

Synopsis:
Two women in a maternity hospital - a married woman who has been trying for eight years to get pregnant and a young student who never intended to be so

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    1991

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Te Hokinga

Synopsis:
In this sequel to 'Roimata', the two sisters have returned to the East Coast. Girlie is about to get married, and Roimata invites Eddie up for the wedding.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
The Depot, Wellington. NZ    1990

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Playmarket,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
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Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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