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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).
Robert Lord was one of New Zealand’s first internationally successful playwrights. David Herkt talks to the editors of his explicit and revealing 1980s New York diaries. “Jay came around this...
- David Herkt
May 29, 2024 · While none of Lord’s work is as explicit as, say, Boys in the Band, some furtive flashes radiate through. The middle-aged parents of Balance of Payments live off the earnings of their rent-boy son, until his mother, who also knits him woolen underwear to pose in, kills him for earning too little.
- Eric Trump
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.
Nov 21, 2023 · Messy gay playwright Sam Brooks reviews the newly-published diaries of one of New Zealand’s original messy gay playwrights. Early on in the diaries of Robert Lord, I found a kindred spirit....
Lord’s diaries tell a story of seeking and making a home, a story of belonging. He was a queer man, a queer playwright, a queer New Zealand artist with ‘an abiding ambivalence about being a New Zealander’, as the book’s introduction notes.
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Lord was one of the only Kiwi playwrights to touch on homosexuality in the 1970s; Balance of Payments (1972) featured a couple who live off the earnings of their rent-boy son, while Meeting Places included some homosexual elements.
