Plays

Voices this week looks at some December events to look forward to from the south Asian and African diaspora in Auckland. Audio

The only reason any of Shakespeare's plays have survived is because canny publishers saw a market for them amongst a populace hungry for material to read. Dr. Hannah August is the Senior Lecturer in… Audio

The explosion of grief that followed the death of her husband, is channelled into Cian Parker's new play, All I See. It's going to premiere at the 2021 Kia Mau Festival at Wellington's Circa Theatre… Audio

The discovery of the growing hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica provided plenty of worrying headlines in the 1980s. But in a rare example of international co-operation, action was successfully… Audio, Gallery

Margery Hopegood was on the fourth day of her holiday in New Zealand, the country of her birth, when she was murdered in  January 10, 1992. Nicola Pauling talks to Jesse about her connection to… Audio

Covid-19 has ravaged many industries, but romance novel sales have been soaring through the lockdown period, including titles from Te-Puke based mother of four Joanne Wadsworth. Audio

Thirty years after Sir Roger Hall first introduced New Zealand theatre audiences to married couple Barry and Gen in his play Conjugal Rites, they're back - older, grumpier, and still together. Audio

Editor of Overland magazine Giovanni Tiso thinks a lot of critics have missed the point of the recent Avengers: Endgame. He's in to fill us in on this astonishingly brave adaptation of Samuel… Audio

Conversations with Dead Relatives is a tale of family histories written and performed by Phil Ormsby and Alex Ellis, who delve deep into the stories of their ancestors. Audio

Anthony McCarten, one of New Zealand's finest writing exports first made his name here with Stephen Sinclair when they wrote the smash-hit Ladies Night around 30 years ago, and his 1990 comedy Weed is… Audio

Tony Kushner’s Tony winner Angels in America is considered a classic of American theatre, a two part epic clashing together themes of religion, politics, and sexuality. Kushner went on to pen the… Audio

Guest host Philippa Tolley interviews theatre director Hannah Smith and playwright Ralph McCubbin Howell whose Trick of the Light Theatre company is about to take two shows to festivals in the UK. Audio