Plays & Stories

Kate De Goldi's acclaimed children's book The ACB With Honora Lee has been adapted by Jane Waddell. Kate and Jane join Eva to discuss the story's contemporary theme: the eccentric Honora Lee is living… Audio

A woman was the target of simulated sex on stage at the Quidam show. Comedian Jarrod Fell explains what makes audience participation work and not work. Audio

Leading New Zealand scenic designer John Verryt has created the sets for many New Zealand theatre productions for the best part of three decades. Now he has the challenge of designing a set that can… Audio

During Pride Festival a new play will put the lives of Pacific Island lesbians front and centre. Puzzy is the debut work by writer Kiki with guidance by old hand Victor Rodger of plays Black Faggot… Audio, Gallery

Writer /lead actor and director are taking their play "All Your Wants and Needs Fulfilled Forever" on tour to London. The successful team from Auckland's Playground Collective discuss the challenges… Audio

With Te Radar and Gemma Gracewood. Audio

Hilary Halba discusses playing Sarah Churchill, the daughter of the great British politician Sir Winston Churchill. Sarah Churchill was an actress and dancer known for her vibrant love life as much as… Audio

Hillary Clinton - Young Lover and Much Adoe About Nothing. Audio

Last year writer Jess Sayer was on the Laugh Track, talking about winning the Bruce Mason Playwriting Award and hinting at a new script she was working on. That script is now a new show, called The… Audio

'Brave and quietly devastating' is the way one reviewer described acclaimed Australian play HART which will be performed at The Basement Theatre in Auckland and BATS theatre in Wellington as part of… Audio

Arthur Meek is on a quest to become Hillary Clinton's 'young lover'. And he's devised a plan to attract the attention and love of the US Democrat. Well, that's what his theatre production aims to do… Audio

John Symthe discusses Dog and Bone, a play that looks at colonial Wellington at war. Audio

Standing Room Only heads to a variety show from a hundred years ago that sounds like a must see. Audio

Can fantasy help us to understand things we'd rather not think about at all? That's the question behind new play Defending the J.J. Mac, which opens soon in Auckland. Director Leon Wadham says the… Audio

Pop-up Globe is the world's first full-scale working replica of the second Globe theatre, and eight of Shakespeare's works will be performed in Auckland before it heads to another part of the world.

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With Te Radar and Gemma Gracewood. Audio

400 years ago, the world's most famous playwright died. William Shakespeare's 37 plays are still performed regularly around the world. 2016 also marks the 25th anniversary of the Shakespeare Globe… Audio