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PAUL ROTHWELL
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New Zealander
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Paul Rothwell's last full-length play was The Blackening at Bats in mid -2009. He was the winner of the Bruce Mason Award for Emerging Playwrights in 2008. He lives in Robert Lord's cottage in Dunedin and is a student at Otago University.
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A Is For Apple
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- 2002
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Aerial View
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- 2005
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Blackening, The
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Mal returns home after ten years. He is surprised that things have changed so little apart from the fact that his childhood sweetheart has married his brother
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BATS, Wellington 2009
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Play/Drama
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Male: 3  Female: -  Other: -
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Case of Amontillado, A
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Based on the short story by Edgar Allan Poe
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- 2003
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Genre:
Adaptation
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Christmas Indoors
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She was believed dead but Trisha was kidnapped and held for over a year. She returns home to find that this has changed her family. Her sister has become her. He boyfriend tends a shrine to her memory. Her father runs a support group for families of murdered children. Her grandmother is convinced that she Trisha has been presenting a television make-over show
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Black comedy
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Male: 2  Female: 4  Other: -
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Cut Out
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A group of High School kids - the slut, the homo, the bitch and the self-mutilator
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- 2003
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Black comedy. - - Gay, theme/character full length
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Male: 2  Female: 2  Other: -
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Deliver Us
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A grandmother is besotted with her new grand daughter until she starts sensing something is very wrong
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- 2007
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Play/Drama
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Felinity of Wendell, The
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A girl follows her heart and comes to a bad end
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- 2002
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One act
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Male: 3  Female: 3  Other: -
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FunShy
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tells the story of Matthias, a religious zealot with visions of the apocalypse who is brought back to earth' by an outgoing and fun-loving stranger and his circle of friends. Matthias gradually becomes accustomed to the ways of the world and the lifestyle of his newfound buddies, but a powerful force has followed him and taken up residence in the inner-city apartment. When world views inevitably collide, it will unleash itself on everyone.
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1st Produced:
As Is Theatre, 377 Princes St, Dunedin 09 Dec 2010
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Play/Drama
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Male: 5  Female: 1  Other: -
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Golden Boys
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The inspiration for the play was the disappearance of Teresa Cormack while walking to school, and the finding of her murdered body. The play concerns the effect of the abduction and murder of a thirteen year old boy, particularly on his friends. While the theme is dark and tragic, the script is magically lightened by the teens' vitality and optimism in the face of the grim world about them. The script challenges the audience to pay close attention in order to follow the story, but Rothwell is careful not to overstress the importance of Golden Boys' plot. "It's about mood, language, tone, resonance . . . I want it to be an aesthetic experience, like a theatrical poem. . . beautiful, poetic, sad," says Paul.
Playmarket News
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Circa 2, NZ 2006
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Hate Crimes
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Teenager Gareth is a failure - even his attempt at suicide fails and he ends up as a wheelchair bound vegetable. Yet everyone who comes in contact with him have their lives turned upside down - from the gay music teacher to the school bully
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- 2005
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Play/Drama. - - Gay, theme/character full length
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Kissing Bone
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- 2007
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No Taste Forever!
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In No Taste Forever, the human race is under attack from an insidious force. Nutritionist Malcolm Sweet realises something is wrong when his morbidly obese patients start dropping like flies. When a little girl is crushed beneath the wheels of his SUV, crying for her ice cream, Malcolm knows for certain that something terrifying has a hold over the human race and he's determined to find out what it is. What he discovers will shock you to the pit of your stomach.
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1st Produced:
BATS, Wellington 13 Jan 2011
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THE BACCHANALS in association with Bovine University and The Wild Duck
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Play/Drama
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Male: 8  Female: 9  Other: extras
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Office Palms
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Parts For The Princes
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Parts for the Princess by Paul Rothwell begins innocently enough Sarah Thomson is the gorgeous princess, seated elegantly in a long off-white dress doing needlepoint and chattering excitedly about her impending betrothal to her perfect prince, whom she first met in a dream. Initially I couldn't see what's so monstrous about this, but as the slightly demented maiden elaborates on the Frankensteinian methods of procuring said groom it not only answered my question, but thinking back over the septet it'd be fair to say she's ultimately the most monstrous of the lot.
- Nik Smythe, www.theatreview.org.nz
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part of The Monster Monologues
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short play
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Undine
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Television needs people to share their pain and problems. Odette is perfect she is articulate and presentable - unfortunately she has no problems
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- 2004
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Genre:
Black comedy
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You Be The Angel I Be The Ghost
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You Be The Angel I Be The Ghost is an unusual and entertaining show about identity, relationships, delusions and reality. Paul is a character in a deeply personal play he is writing about himself and his experience of the world; the only problem is that the other characters aren't doing what he tells them to do. Morgan is a lonely, needy dreamer who might finally make some friends, if he can stay asleep. The playful and elusive Courtney has a huge imagination and and even bigger ego. She also has a Secret, and if her two imaginary friends learn her secret, they will gain a terrible power over her...
- www.theatreview.org.nz
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1st Produced:
BATS Theatre, 1 Kent Terrace, Wellington 08 Feb 2012
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NZ Fringe Festival 2012
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