Plays & Stories

Playwright previews the Bullet Heart Club season of Daffodils. Audio

April Fool's day is traditionally the day newspapers have a little bit of a laugh at their readers expense. Audio

Comedian Ray Badran told a joke that involved a reference to rape. A woman in the audience silently protested; he put her down, telling her to die. Audio

Two of the big winners of this year's Adam Play Awards. Audio

With James Elliott and Michele A'Court. Audio

Star and director of Breath: a Samuel Beckett triple bill at Auckland's Q Theatre. Audio

Children are much harsher critics than adults, that's what actor Nepia Takuira-Mita says with a slight chuckle. 'They will tell you how it really is, they will say, what was that? he adds. That's the… Audio

Maria Walker directed the children's play Ngunguru I te ao, I te po, it's a play that is 95 percent in te reo maori and uses props, music and the odd English word to talk about the theme of the story… Audio

Elric Hooper is a recognisable face in Christchurch theatre both on and off stage. He spent his early years with Dame Ngaio Marsh, the influential woman for whom the theatre at The University of… Audio

Irish comedian Ed Byrne is back in the country as part of the New Zealand International Comedy Festival 2015 with his new show Roaring Forties. Audio

David Lawrence is director of The Bacchanals, a Wellington theatre company he founded in 2000 to explore text-based theatre and redefine classic works. His most recent production was Richard III, last… Audio

With comedians Radar and Elisabeth Easther. Audio

Irish American comedian Des Bishop on his bid to conquer China. He lived in China for a year, where he learned Mandarin, so that he could perform stand up comedy in the world's most populous country… Audio

The War Play Writer and director of The War Play at Dunedin's Fortune Theatre. Audio

Kiwi Eleanor Bishop bases her new show on a notorious rape that was revealed to the victim via tweets. Eleanor is studying directing in America on a Fulbright Scholarship at the Carnegie Mellon… Audio

Thomas Monckton likes to make people laugh. With an untamed mop of wild, red hair he embodies characters of the slightly crazed, and eccentric. Notwithstanding his current, touring solo show in which… Audio

Francis Gallop is a designer and occasional writer and director based in Edinburgh - though right now, he's working with design students at Toi Whakaari NZ Drama school on a film-based project. He's a… Audio

Phil Braithwaite the great nephew of executed then pardoned First World War soldier Jack Braithwaite, turns his story into a stage play - The War Play at the Fortune Theatre. Audio

Director Roysten Abel serves up drama and food in The Kitchen - a story about cooking as a metaphor for life, playing at the Auckland Arts Festival. On stage a couple cook up steamy vats of payasam, a… Audio