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Robert Lord (18 July 1945 – 7 January 1992) was the first New Zealand professional playwright. He was one of the first New Zealand playwrights to have plays produced abroad since Merton Hodge in the 1930s (following Bruce Mason and James K. Baxter).
Rose is a reverse image of Robert Lord, yet in her way, she is as ‘unseen’ as Lord felt himself to be: ‘wherever I am I’m in the wrong place’. In the final scene of the play, Dad, now in his nineties, says, in front of Rose, the daughter who has been waiting on him hand and foot all her life: ‘Hasn’t she turned into a miserable ...
Gay during a time of immense sexual and social changes, Rotorua-born Lord was one of New Zealand’s most important professional playwrights the author of numerous stage and radio plays,...
Nov 21, 2023 · Robert Lord is not a household name, although arguably no playwright in our country is except Roger Hall. Lord’s most famous (adjust for inflation) plays include The Travelling Squirrel,...
His commitment to New Zealand writing is reflected in his decision to make his Dunedin cottage available to writers after he died of an AIDS-related illness at the age of 46. Playmarket holds a video interview with Robert which you can apply to view by contacting the director of Playmarket.
Oct 16, 2020 · So perhaps it’s no surprise that many of most influential playwrights are LGBTQ. Here are seven of them. The Irresistible Rise of Matthew Lopez. Matthew Lopez’s hot new play The Inheritance (directed by Stephen Daldry) has conquered London and is now taking on Broadway at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre.
Oct 12, 2023 · A new book sheds light on the inner-life of playwright Robert Lord who left his small, red-brick cottage in the heart of North Dunedin to provide a temporary home for many writers over the past 20 years. Rebecca Fox talks to the book’s co-editors Chris Brickell, Vanessa Manhire and Nonnita Rees.
