First Return

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Event First Return
Venue Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
First Date 1978
Dates Estimated No
Status Amateur
World Premiere No
Description A semi-autobiographical play about the central character's attempts to come to terms with himself, his past and his identity as a New Zealander. The style is expressionistic. Synopsis: Playmarket Mervyn Thompson's Simon in First Return finds the straight way again by facing his daemons, his personal hell, and accepting thier existence as part of himself. Much of the power of the play results from a gradual association of Simon with New Zealand (it could be any post-colonial society); he becomes representative of a new society painfully accepting itself as less than heroic, but free, terrifyingly so. ACT Review.
Primary Genre Theatre - Spoken Word
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Mary Singleton-Bryan Director
Mervyn Thompson Playwright
Text Nationality New Zealand
Production Nationality New Zealand
Further Information The play was revised prior to this production - the first to work with the revised script.
Event Status Completed
Data Set Theatre Aotearoa
Event Identifier 185799