Story: Plays and playwrights

The December brother, 2010

Tim Spite was a founder of the Wellington theatre collective SEEyD Productions. He is seen in the first production of SeeyD's The December brother, at Wellington's Downstage in September 2010. The play deals with the 1994 Bain murders, and offers alternative theories on the murderer's identity.

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Murray Edmond, Plays and playwrights – Theatre into the 2000s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/43980/the-december-brother-2010 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Murray Edmond, published 16 January 2014.

Comments

Tony Spite
06 April 2021

The Bain story is a minor part of The December Brother. It is the story of Tony Spite's search for his birth parents.