Story: Plays and playwrights

More links and websites

• Theatre Archives New Zealand

  Theatre Archives New Zealand works to preserve New Zealand’s theatre heritage.

• Playmarket

  Playmarket represents and markets the work of New Zealand playwrights.

• Playwrights Association of New Zealand

  The Playwrights Association advises and supports playwrights.

• Theatre New Zealand

  An organisation promoting and supporting community theatre.

• Theatreview: The New Zealand Performing Arts Review & Directory

  A directory and review of New Zealand performing arts.

• Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School

  New Zealand’s national drama school, in Wellington.

More suggestions and sources

• Balme, Christopher B. Decolonizing the stage: theatrical syncretism and post-colonial drama. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.

• Hall, Roger. Bums on seats: the backstage story. Auckland: Viking, 1998.

• Maufort, Marc, and O'Donnell, David, eds. Performing Aotearoa: New Zealand theatre and drama in an age of transition. Bruxelles; New York: P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2007.

• McNaughton, Howard, ed. Contemporary New Zealand plays. Wellington; New York: Oxford University Press, 1974.

• Smythe, John. Downstage upfront: the first 40 years of New Zealand’s longest-running professional theatre. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2004.

• Tarling, Nicholas. Wit, eloquence and commerce: a history of Auckland’s Mercury theatre. Auckland: Connacht Books, 2007.