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Ralph McCubbin Howell

RALPH MCCUBBIN HOWELL

  
Nationality:    New Zealander
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Ralph McCubbin Howell's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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below is a list of Ralph McCubbin Howell's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Beards, Beards, Beards         Bookbinder, The         Engine Room, The         Road That Wasn't there, The

Beards, Beards, Beards

Synopsis:
'Beatrix didn't want a tiara. Beatrix wanted a Beard!' From Charles Darwin to Abraham Lincoln, Karl Marx to Mr Twit, it is said that the secret to power and greatness is all in the size and shape of the beard. From award-winning company, Trick of the Light Theatre (The Bookbinder, The Road That Wasn't There), comes a tale of one young girl's increasingly inventive efforts to grow the world's most magnificent beard. Armed with bubble bath and canned spaghetti, join a madcap and hilarious musical romp of physical comedy and clowning, as our plucky young heroine shakes up social rules and attempts to answer the questions that have puzzled mankind since the dawn of the beard.

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1st Produced:
Playhouse Theatre, Dunedin    12 Mar 2015

Organisations:
Trick of the Light Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
piece 60 min

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.theatreview.org.nz/reviews/production.php?id=4448

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Bookbinder, The

Synopsis:
A bookbinder should never do anything that cannot be undone. But left alone, leather crumbles, and pages turn to dust. Stories begin to unravel& The Bookbinder is a story of mystery, magic and mayhem. It weaves shadowplay, paper art, puppetry, and music into a mysterious tale for children and adults

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1st Produced:
Arty Bees Bookshop, 106 Manners Street, Wellington    19 Feb 2014

Organisations:
Trick of the Light Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
piece 50 min

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.theatreview.org.nz/reviews/production.php?id=3682

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Engine Room, The

Synopsis:
In 1981 the South African rugby team toured New Zealand, and our country was plunged into chaos. Flash forward a few decades, and the 2008 election saw the conflict make headlines again, when John Key told reporters he couldn't remember his position on the tour. So what was John doing during these fateful months? and where was aunty Helen? the engine Room imagines these political icons in a partly factual, mostly fictional account of two seminal moments in New Zealand's history. Using an explosive combination of storytelling techniques, from documentary theatre to rugby-inspired choreography, the engine Room charts political and personal conflicts against a backdrop of police brutality and protest lines. With sport and politics going head to head, the battlelines are drawn. and the whole world is watching.
- www.theatreview.org.nz

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1st Produced:
Bats, Wellington    27 Sep 2011

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Road That Wasn't there, The

Synopsis:
In New Zealand there are some 56,000 kilometres of paper roads - streets and towns that exist only on surveyors' maps. Or do they? A young woman strays from the beaten track and finds herself in a paper town. It seems a land of possibility, but she soon discovers that actions taken in the fictional world can have frighteningly real consequences. the play is rooted in New Zealand folklore; from lost moa roaming the foothills, to faeries who drink moonshine out the back of Pyne Gould Guinness. Playwright Ralph McCubbin Howell (Outstanding New Playwright, Chapman Tripp 2011) says 'It's a story from the twitchy edges of children's literature - a dark world reminiscent of Coraline, Pan's Labyrinth, and the works of the late (great) Margaret Mahy.

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1st Produced:
Laughing Horse@The Three Sisters, Edinburgh Festival Fringe    05 Aug 2012

Organisations:
Trick of the Light Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
TYA

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  with doubling

Further Reference:
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