Overview

Three darkly provocative and ground-breaking plays by award-winning playwright Victor Rodger explore what it means to be gay and Samoan in contemporary New Zealand. The collection includes Black Faggot (2012), At the Wake (2012) and Club Paradiso (2015). Victor Rodger is an award-winning playwright of Samoan and Scottish heritage. His first play, Sons, debuted in 1995. Since then he has eight other plays produced, both nationally and internationally. He has held writing residencies at the University of Canterbury, the University of Hawaii and Otago University. He is currently the writer in residence at Victoria University of Wellington.

Full Product Details

9781776561032

Table of Contents

Reviews

Author Information

Victor Rodger is a New Zealand playwright of Samoan and Scottish descent whose work deals with issues of race, racism and race relations. His first play, Sons, won four Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards in 1998 including Best New Writer and Best New Play. He has held writing residencies at the Universities of Hawaii and Canterbury and won various awards including the Bruce Mason Playwright Award (2001) and the Contemporary Pacific Arts Award (2013). Victor was a long-time writer for the New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street and studied writing for film at the Maurits Binger Film Lab in Amsterdam. In 2017 he is the Victoria University of Wellington Writer in Residence.

Tab Content 6

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

Countries Available