“We Wish We’d Had This Show When We Were Kids”: Interview With “The Glitter Garden” Playwrights George Fowler and Lori Leigh
The Glitter Garden by George Fowler and Lori Leigh. Directed by Lori Leigh. Circa Theatre,...
Read MoreDavid O'Donnell is a theatre director and Associate Professor in Theatre at Victoria University, Wellington, Aotearoa/ New Zealand. David has directed many premieres of New Zealand plays, most recently Heat by Lynda Chanwai-Earle, Te Karakia by Albert Belz, Collapsing Creation by Arthur Meek and West End Girls by Ken Duncum. His productions have been seen at the NZ International Festival of the Arts, Auckland Arts Festival, Nelson Arts Festival, Otago Arts Festival, Fuel Festival, Dreaming Festival (Australia), Downstage, BATS, Fortune and Circa Theatres. David has been nominated six times as director of the year at Wellington's Chapman Tripp Theatre awards, winning in 2004 for directing David Edgar’s Albert Speer. In 2015 he won a Po’okela Award from the Hawai’i State Theatre Council for directing Victor Rodger’s My Name is Gary Cooper at Kumu Kahua Theater, Honolulu. He has published widely on New Zealand and Australian theatre, Māori and Pacific performance and community theatre. With Marc Maufort, he co-edited the book Performing Aotearoa: New Zealand Theatre and Drama in an Age of Transition (2007) and has been editor of the Playmarket New Zealand Play Series since 2010. Floating Islanders: Pasifika Theatre in Aotearoa (2017), which he co-authored with Lisa Warrington, was awarded the 2018 Rob Jordan Book Prize by the Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies.
Posted by David O'Donnell | 14th May 2021 | Interview, LGBTQ Theatre, New Zealand, Playwriting, Theatre and Gender, Theatre for Young Audiences
The Glitter Garden by George Fowler and Lori Leigh. Directed by Lori Leigh. Circa Theatre,...
Read MorePosted by David O'Donnell | 6th May 2021 | Documentary Theatre, New Zealand, Review, Theatre and Politics
Transmission written by Stuart McKenzie. Directed by Miranda Harcourt and Stuart McKenzie. 20...
Read MorePosted by David O'Donnell | 25th Feb 2021 | Dramaturgy, New Zealand, Review, Theatre and Decolonization, Theatre and Politics
Company Kamupene Written and performed by Jamie McCaskill. Presented by Tikapa Productions and The...
Read MorePosted by David O'Donnell | 9th Oct 2020 | Acting, New Zealand, Russia, Theatre and Age
In June 2017 the eminent New Zealand actor Dame Kate Harcourt celebrated her 90th birthday at...
Read MorePosted by David O'Donnell | 29th Mar 2020 | LGBTQ Theatre, New Zealand, Review, Theatre and Gender
Princess Boy Wonder, performed by George Fowler (aka Hugo Grrrl), Directed by Lori Leigh, BATS...
Read MorePosted by David O'Donnell | 3rd Jan 2020 | Adaptation, LGBTQ Theatre, New Zealand, Review
Uma Lava by Victor Rodger, Circa Theatre, Wellington. 23 November – 7 December 2019. Directed by...
Read MorePosted by David O'Donnell | 22nd Nov 2019 | Festivals, New Zealand, Review
TAHI Fess’s: New Zealand Festival of Solo Performance, Artistic Director: Sally Richards....
Read MorePosted by David O'Donnell | 7th Oct 2019 | Adaptation, New Zealand, Review, Theatre for Young Audiences, Transcultural Collaborations
Dream The Black Friars Theatre Company, Mangere Arts Centre, Auckland, 18-21 September 2019 Where...
Read MorePosted by David O'Donnell | 9th May 2019 | New Zealand, News
As New Zealand has lost two of its longest-running professional theatres in the last seven years,...
Read MorePosted by David O'Donnell | 30th Apr 2019 | New Zealand, Review
I am not Margaret Mahy by Jane Waddell, based on Notes of a Bag Lady by Margaret Mahy, BATS...
Read MorePosted by David O'Donnell | 29th Apr 2019 | New Zealand, Review, Theatre and Gender
Despite being dead for 400 years and having lived and worked on the far side of Planet Earth,...
Read MorePosted by David O'Donnell | 20th May 2018 | New Zealand, Puppetry, Review, Theatre and Age, Transcultural Collaborations
Samoan playwright David Fa’auliuli Mamea’s Still Life With Chickens won the 2017 Adam Award for...
Read MorePosted by David O'Donnell | 29th Apr 2018 | Festivals, New Zealand, Review, Transcultural Collaborations
The Naked Samoans Do Magic Commissioned by the Auckland Arts Festival and co-produced with The...
Read MorePosted by David O'Donnell | 5th Apr 2018 | New Zealand, Review, Theatre and Politics
Bless the Child by Hone Kouka. Co-produced by the New Zealand Festival, Auckland Arts Festival and...
Read MorePosted by David O'Donnell | 2nd Mar 2018 | Festivals, New Zealand, Review
Wellington, a portside city famed for its turbulent seas and hurricane-force winds, turned on a...
Read MorePosted by David O'Donnell | 29th Dec 2017 | LGBTQ Theatre, New Zealand, Review, Theatre and Gender
Since Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first to climb Mount Everest in May 1953,...
Read MorePosted by David O'Donnell | 23rd Dec 2017 | Directing, New Zealand, Review, Theatre and Gender
Merriam-Webster has recently named “feminism” as the 2017 “word of the year” and feminist issues...
Read MorePosted by David O'Donnell | 7th Dec 2017 | New Zealand, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
For the past two years, Samoan playwright Victor Rodger has been tireless in bringing plays by...
Read MorePosted by David O'Donnell | 24th Feb 2017 | Design, Interview, New Zealand
The light fades to a darkness more intense than a starless night on a country road. As the eyes...
Read MorePosted by David O'Donnell | 2nd Nov 2016 | New Zealand, News
Two leading Samoan theatre practitioners have won 2016 Senior Pasifika Artist Awards from Creative...
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