Plays 1: Small Towns Sea: Horseplay, Flipside, Trick of the Light [Paperback]

Each of these three plays takes as its kernel a news story from the past that captured the imagination of New Zealanders. InHorseplaynovelist Ronald Hugh Morrieson and poet James K. Baxter meet and share the stage with the rear end of a horse, while inFlipsidefour sailors confront the elements for 119 days, adrift on the overturned boatRose-Noëlle.Finally,Trick of the Lightrevisits the infamous Crewe murders when a brother and sister bring their mother's ashes to a motel room that hasn't been opened in three decades.

Ken Duncumis the Michael Hirschfeld Director of Scriptwriting at Victoria University's International Institute of Modern Letters. His playsBlue Sky Boys, Cherish,andTrick of the Lightare all winners of the Chapman Tripp Theatre Award for Best New Zealand Play.

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