(from the introduction) ..... The plays contained here are all early works for their authors.  All have written other scripts since.  So what is presented is no longer the 'cutting edge' of Maori playwriting.  However, these were some of the first adzes to fall.  They maintain a story-telling tradition which has kept flexible to meet the needs of a modern reality.  Maori playwriting and plays bring together Maori ceremony and thought with British and European theatre tradition.  While this fusion has produced a number of very different plays, whatever mix they have employed all operate within a Maori framework, and have whanau relations at their core ...... (book description courtesy of seller keymedia)

He reo hou: 5 plays by Maori playwrights

Garrett, Simon (ed.)

Contributors: Don Selwyn

Roma Potiki

Rore Hapipi

Hone Tuwhare

Rena Owen

Riwia Brown

John Broughton

Playmarket

No Ordinary Sun

Random House, New Zealand

Shape-Shifter

Steele Roberts Publishing Limited, Wellington, New Zealand

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