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Stuart Hoar

STUART HOAR

  (1957 - )
Nationality:    New Zealander
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Literary Agent:    Playmarket Inc  

Stuart Hoar's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

         Alice In Cyberspace         American Girl         Backwards In High Heels         Bitter Calm         Boat, The         Bright Star         Cool Gangs         Exile         Face Maker, The         Folie a Deux         Great Art War, The         Gung Ho         Long Walk Off A Tall Rock, A         Pasefika         Pulp Explosion, The         Reprisal         Rutherford         Scott Of the Antartic         Squatter         Three Musketeers, The

Alice In Cyberspace

Synopsis:
Alice and Vinnie get zapped to a thousand years in the future. Trying to find a way back they encounter mad queens; androids and enormous insects

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Genre:
Youth play

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Male:  10            Female:  20            Other:  -

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American Girl

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broadcast 1988

1st Produced:
Dunedin    1992

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1st Published:
Victoria University Press, Wellington, 1989   -

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Backwards In High Heels

Synopsis:
they were bored with each other. they were bored with Life. and to rekindle the fire of their fading passions they turned to dance. To tango and the sexy, syncopated rhythms of its promiscuous and predatory heart. Backwards in High Heels follows the journey of Holly and Jonathon as they are initiated, by the mysterious Marta, into the intensity and vulnerability of a world beyond words. the world of Tango. a world of pure movement and unfettered expression and the discovery that being successful, well off and middle class isn"t everything it"s cracked up to be.
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vibrant 21st century comedy of manners And celebration of the dancer within us All.

1st Produced:
Court Theatre, Christchurch, NZ    2006

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  2 tango dancers

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Bitter Calm

Synopsis:
New Zealand 1840. A young Maori, Matiu falls in love with a European farmer's daughter. He declares his love but she misunderstands and rejects him. When later she is found murdered Matiu faces a kangaroo court

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Genre:
Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Boat, The

Synopsis:
Calvus and Verus arrive from Rome in China. It is A.D. 69 and they are there to row Princess Ts'ui's boat

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1st Produced:
Auckland    1992

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Genre:
Historical drama

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Bright Star

Synopsis:
the story of Beatrice Tinsley - a brilliant astrophysicist struggling in the male dominated world of astronomy

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Drama

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Cool Gangs

Synopsis:
Two new arrivals in New Zealand get involved with two rival gangs

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1st Produced:
Auckland    1992

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Drama

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Exile

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1st Produced:
Auckland    1990

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Face Maker, The

Synopsis:
Archibald Macidoe a surgeon who helped repair airmen's faces after their planes caught fire

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Genre:
Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Folie a Deux

Synopsis:
Two eccentric sisters Sappho and Sassafras. Sassafras brings home a wooden horse she calls Mr Ed. Sappho gets entangled with an intellectual man

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Genre:
Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Great Art War, The

Synopsis:
Set in 1940s Christchurch, the Great Art War is a brand new musical that tells the true story of one of New Zealand's most prestigious and influential painter's battle for acceptance. When Frances Hodgkins' shockingly modernist painting the Pleasure Garden' is gifted to the Christchurch Art Gallery, conservative 1940s Christchurch erupts in a civic battle!
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Notes:
Script and Lyrics by Stuart Hoar; Music and Lyrics by Philip Norman

1st Produced:
Court Theatre, Bernard Street, Addington, Christchurch    24 Aug 2013

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Genre:
musical

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Gung Ho

Synopsis:
China 1939. Li-Na is taken from her parents by government official for the use of soldiers. Her mother Ai-Ling goes in search of her. She comes across a New Zealander who is in China trying to help set up a co-operative. He joins her in the search. Li-Na is found. the three of them meet Mao Zedong. Mao tries to seduce Li-Na and Rewi

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Genre:
Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Long Walk Off A Tall Rock, A

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Wellington    1991

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Pasefika

Synopsis:
the story of Charles Meryon the French artist and friend of Baudelaire

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Pulp Explosion, The

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Christchurch    1992

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Reprisal

Synopsis:
New Zealand 1951. A close relationship is torn apart by strike breaking laws of the time

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Genre:
Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Rutherford

Synopsis:
Life of scientist Sir Edward Rutherford

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Genre:
Drama

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Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Scott Of the Antartic

Synopsis:
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broadcast 1989

1st Produced:
Wellington    1990

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Squatter

Squatter
People fight over ownership of a plot of land - even resorting to murder

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1st Produced:
Auckland    1987

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1st Published:
Victoria University Press, Wellington, 1988   978-0864730749

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Male:  8            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Three Musketeers, The

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Based on the novel "the Three Musketeers" by Alexandre Dumas

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Genre:
Adaptation

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