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He also wrote one-act plays, radio plays and screenplays. His plays have been produced or published in New Zealand, Australia and the United States. He is the only New Zealand dramatist to have had works programmed by major off-Broadway and regional American repertory companies.
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.
- David Herkt
Robert wrote numerous television programs as well as the screenplay for the New Zealand feature Pictures. At the time of his death, he was working on the screenplay The Big Ditch. In 1990 he returned to Dunedin.
Robert Lord was born in Rotorua on 18 July 1945 and studied Arts at Victoria University of Wellington. His first full-length play premiered at Downstage Theatre, Wellington, in 1971. Along with his award-winning works for the stage, Robert also wrote TV and feature film screenplays.
Nov 21, 2023 · Lord’s most famous (adjust for inflation) plays include The Travelling Squirrel, Bert and Maisie, and his best play, perhaps the best family drama ever written in New Zealand, Joyful and...
From 1971 to 1975, five of Lord's plays debuted in Kiwi theatres, including hit farce Well Hung (1974), which was inspired by the police investigation into the murders of Harvey and Jeanette Crewe. Roger Hall compared it favourably to the work of English playwright Joe Orton.
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Robert Lord (1945–1992) is an important figure in the history of literature and theatre in Aotearoa New Zealand. He wrote incisive and often satiric radio and stage plays, experimenting with traditional theatre forms and incorporating queer characters at a time when almost nobody else did.
