End of the Golden Weather
We round off season one with a trio of monologues. First up, is the New Zealand classic The End of the Golden Weather. If you’ve ever wondered how we do Christmas on the beach in Aotearoa, then this i...
13 Sep 202118min
Merchant of Venice
In the final of three episodes on Shakespeare we ask if The Merchant of Venice really fits the comedy mould. Was the Bard an anti-Semite? What did he want us to make of Antonio and Bassanio’s bromance...
7 Sep 202125min
Othello
What’s in a prop? How can one handkerchief create so much drama? And why and how would you stage a story about a Moorish General today? Content Warning: Discussion of intimate partner violence. Tha...
31 Aug 202120min
Romeo and Juliet
Oh Romeo, Romeo, what did you do? Why did Juliet fall so hard for you? In the first of three episodes on Shakespeare, we get to grips with the Bard’s language. Content Warning: Discussion of suicide a...
24 Aug 202119min
Medea
The perfect cautionary tale for why you should never receive gifts from an angry ex. In the final of our three Greek Tragedy episodes for season one, we discuss how playwright Euripides modified the s...
17 Aug 202120min
Antigone
Was Antigone the original kick-arse woman character? She’s definitely not going down without a fight. In this episode we also take a look around some theatre architecture, the social context in which ...
10 Aug 202116min
Oedipus Rex
Long before the invention of the combustion engine Sophocles showed us that road rage never pays. In the first of three episodes on Greek Tragedy, we meet Oedipus the King and get our brains and tongu...
3 Aug 202116min
Preview
Meet Emily and Allison. They’re both dramaturgs. Meaning they’ve read a lot of plays. Here they tell you why and how this came to be in the preview to season one of Play: Notes. First Episode coming ...
19 Juli 20216min
