Set against the backdrop of the Waikato Land Wars, this play exuberantly explores aspects of New Zealand's history. Three of the country's real-life historical figures, Charlotte Badger, an escaped convict with a Colorful past who was New Zealand's first... [More...]

Bill is sustained by his deep sense of a wider culture and an improving world. The only thing the human race needs to do is learn. When he meets people who embody this idea, he naturally likes them-especially if his wife doesn't. A play that explores the... [More...]

The most significant works in recent New Zealand theatre, "Krishnan's Dairy, The Candlestickmaker, and "The Pickle King form a loose trilogy connected by theme and theatrical style that explores three eternal questions: W"ill I find love? How can I find... [More...]

Each of these three plays takes as its kernel a news story from the past that captured the imagination of New Zealanders. In "Horseplay "novelist Ronald Hugh Morrieson and poet James K. Baxter meet and share the stage with the rear end of a horse, while in... [More...]

An anthology of plays by Australia's leading contemporary playwrights, the latest addition to Methuen's acclaimed world drama anthologies.

Matthew Isaac Cohen's evocative social history situates the Komedie Stamboel in the culture of empire and in late nineteenth-century itinerant entertainment. He shows how the theater was used as a symbol of cross-ethnic integration in postcolonial Indonesia... [More...]

American Zen failure Chadwick this time is in a Western Australian caper. He went there, he writes in the introduction,"on a whim to visit a dear chum, meet her family, friends, and homeland, curious to explore, anticipating only the warmth of new... [More...]

New Zealand's first and longest running professional theater company, the Downstage Theatre in Wellington, is celebrated in this large and lavishly illustrated document of its 40-year life span. From conception to maturity, this history covers the theater's... [More...]