It was so well received last year at Pasifika Festival we decided to do it again.
David Mamea takes you through the the basics and encourages you to show off your skills.
Tues March 8th
10am-2pm
The EDGE
Aotea Centre
Early Bird: $10 + GST or $15 at the door.
For more more details go to :
Pasifika Festival – Newbie Writers’ Workshop – Playmarket & Banana Boat
Hey all,
Happy New Year!!
What a great year 2010 was for Banana Boat.
2011 looks to be just as big and bright.
Pasifika Festival has again invited Banana Boat to participate as part of the festival programme. We couldn’t say NO so we asked our good mates Playmarket to partner with us to deliver:
Playmarket & Banana Boat Creative Clinics.
This is a fabulous opportunity to have your play developed with professional script advisor , director and actors as part of Pasifika Festival 2011.
Deadline for submissions is Feb 18th 2011.
See link for more details
http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=136625176400639
Talofa lava
Fakaalofa lahi atu
Malo e lelei
Kia orana
Tena koutou
Ni sa bula
Taloha ni
Welcome to another late after-match report – and the first 2011 Banana Boat broadside.
Present
– were AMBER ARANUI, GRANT BAYLEY, CLAIRE NOBLE, VENUS STEPHENS, GERALDINE WARREN, STAN WOLFGRAMM, JENNI HEKA and DAVID MAMEA.
Apologies
– were received from LEILANI UNASA, CHRIS MOLLOY, ERIC SMITH and DANNY AUMUA.
Banana Boat Business
There was a gentle reminder for the Brown Ink sessions – okay, they were generous exhortations. JENNI tempted those present with the promise of Heka Catering putting on the Brown Ink feed.
News to Use
The GRANT BAYLEY LIBRARY is as follows:
– The Best Plays of 1969-1970 – Otis L Guernsey, editor
– Curtain Times: The New York Theatre 1965-1987 – Otis L Guernsey Jr
– Five New Zealand Plays – John Thomson, editor
– Jumpers – Tom Stoppard
– My Best Play – a self-selected anthology that includes Noel Coward, Somerset Maugham, AA Milne
– Objection Overruled – Carolyn Burns
– Two Plays by Tom Stoppard: Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, and Professional Foul – Tom Stoppard
A webpage will be set aside for this library.
Coming Up
2011 is shaping up to another bumper year for Banana Boat and its yet-unnamed sibling organisation/production-unit. What else did you expect us to say: Watch this space.
Assuming someone (cough) is organised enough, it’s hoped that the February 2011 fono will be held in South Auckland.
Script Reading
GRANT shared a five-minute monologue that emotionally affected all present – technical discussions almost seemed like an insult but it’s one thing to share within a group, and another to share with a cold audience. The Banana Boat always wants its writers to put their best jandle forward ’cause it’s what we do.
Next Fono
– will be on THURSDAY 27 JANUARY 2011 at the usual time and place. This will be the first fono for 2011.