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First New Zealand professional playwright
- Playwright Robert Lord (18 July 1945 – 7 January 1992) was the first New Zealand professional playwright. He was one of the first New Zealand playwrights to have plays produced abroad since Merton Hodge in the 1930s (following Bruce Mason and James K. Baxter).
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Robert Lord (18 July 1945 – 7 January 1992) was the first New Zealand professional playwright. He was one of the first New Zealand playwrights to have plays produced abroad since Merton Hodge in the 1930s (following Bruce Mason and James K. Baxter).
Robert Lord was one of New Zealand’s first internationally successful playwrights. David Herkt talks to the editors of his explicit and revealing 1980s New York diaries. “Jay came around this...
- David Herkt
Nov 21, 2023 · Robert Lord is not a household name, although arguably no playwright in our country is except Roger Hall. Lord’s most famous (adjust for inflation) plays include The Travelling Squirrel, Bert...
5 days ago · Lord was one of New Zealand’s leading playwrights and the author of more than 20 plays for radio, television and stage, among them Well Hung, Bert & Maisy, and his posthumous hit Joyful and Triumphant. Born in 1946 in Rotorua, he left New Zealand— “a third-world backwater,” he writes nastily, for the USA in 1974— not returning for good until 1989.
A pioneer of New Zealand playwriting, Robert Lord was a co-founder of Playmarket, the powerhouse of writing for theatre in this country. Based in New York throughout the 1980s, he held the University of Otago’s Burns Fellowship in 1987, returned to live in Dunedin in 1990, and died there on 7 January 1992.
Robert Lord - Robert Lord was writing full-time at a point when very few Kiwi playwrights made a living from their work. In 1988 he turned his play Bert and Maisy into a television series. He also had scriptwriting credits on 60s set TV show Peppermint Twist and big screen period drama Pictures.
Oct 12, 2023 · A new book sheds light on the inner-life of playwright Robert Lord who left his small, red-brick cottage in the heart of North Dunedin to provide a temporary home for many writers over the past 20 years. Rebecca Fox talks to the book’s co-editors Chris Brickell, Vanessa Manhire and Nonnita Rees.
