Elisabeth Easter, The New Zealand
Listener
For more than 30 years,
Dr
David Galler has worked on the frontlines of New
Zealand’s health system as an intensive care specialist at
Middlemore Hospital and in its highest reaches as an advisor
to the Ministry of Health. His 2017 book,
Things
That Matter: Stories of life & death,
shines a powerful light on the extraordinary patients he met
and the struggles our society faces in caring for
them.
Developed over several years, Auckland Theatre
Company presents an important new New Zealand play by
award-winning playwright
Gary Henderson,
adapted from Galler’s generous and lyrical memoir.
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Friday, 16 July 2021, 11:32 am
Some of the biggest names in New Zealand literature are
descending on New Plymouth District this month to celebrate
Puke Ariki’s Festival of Words.
NPDC Libraries Manager
Dyane Hosler says public interest in the festival is growing
with a number of the scheduled events already sold out and
limited tickets for the rest of the bookable performances
available
“We have a fantastic line-up of guest
speakers, writing and poetry workshops, comedy and
kōrero,” she says.
“Most of all we hope that the
Festival will be a reminder that NPDC’s libraries are all
about connection with our community and the many
Monday, 12 July 2021, 1:17 pm
Auckland Theatre Company’s (ATC)
production of
The Haka Party
Incident, described as an “innovative,
brilliant piece of theatre that all New Zealanders need to
see” will tour to venues and festivals across the motu
in October and November. Winner of Playmarket’s Best Play
by a Māori Playwright and the inaugural Dean Parker
Adaptation for Non-Fiction Award earlier this year, judges
said the play was “powerful political theatre which rips
the Band Aid off racism in Aotearoa.”
The Haka
Party Incident, written and directed by renowned
film-maker and theatre director
Katie Wolfe
(Ngāti Tama, Ngāti Mutunga), will return
“A weekend
of words, circus and cabaret set to turn up the heat in
Taranaki”
With nearly 40 events spread across four
days and nights, New Plymouth will generate a buzz around
Taranaki and further afield this winter as the region lives
up to its reputation as a festival province like no other
between 29 July and 1 August.
The collaboration
between the Right Royal Cabaret Fest and Festival of Words
will see New Zealand s leading cabaret artists, comedians,
authors and acclaimed guest speakers to perform at venues
throughout the district, including TSB Showplace, NPDC s
Puke Ariki Museum and Library, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery,