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Horseplay: 2m 2w
Flipside: 4m
Trick of the Light: 2m 1w
ISBN 0 86473 494 8
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Plays 1: Small Towns and Sea (3 full length plays)
Horseplay, Flipside & Trick of the Light
Ken Duncum
(published in association with VUP)
Horseplay
Brought together by an absurd set of circumstances which leads to them sharing the stage with the rear end of a horse, novelist Ronald Hugh Morrieson and poet James K Baxter enact an hilarious hypothetical meeting in Hawera in 1972 – with interruptions from Auntie and Wilma the would-be girlfriend. Unbeatable comic parts for four actors, and an excellent introduction to two extraordinary NZ writers and their worlds.
Flipside
The overturned Rose-Noelle was adrift for 119 days. How did the four men trapped in her cope with the sea, the weather, each other and themselves? This powerful play, adapted from the book that chronicles this real life adventure, Capsized, explores the possibilities.
Trick of the Light
The long shadow of the Crewe murders falls on two generations. What is the link to the brother and sister who bring their mother’s ashes to a motel that has been closed for thirty years?
Ken Duncum
grew up in Rotorua and is recognised as one of NZ’s leading playwrights, writing prolifically for screen and stage, gathering many prestigious awards, including in 2010 the New Zealand Post Mansfield Prize.
In 2001 Duncum was the inaugural recipient of the Michael Hirschfeld Memorial Writing Award, and in 2002 he began as the Michael Hirschfeld Director of Scriptwriting, coordinating the MA in scriptwriting at Victoria University’s International Institute of Modern Letters.