BATS Theatre Plays by Ken Duncum & Rebecca Rodden

This is a second-hand copy of the book BATS Theatre Plays by Ken Duncum & Rebecca Rodden. 

Condition: This is a used book in very good condition.

Publisher: Victoria University Press
Year: 2016
ISBN: 9781776560899
Format: Softback
Pages: 382
Condition: Used (Very Good)

Six seminal plays from Ken Duncum and Rebecca Rodden, whose playwriting partnership powered the vibrant theatre scene around Wellington's BATS Theatre in the 1980s and 90s. Boldly inventive, darkly comic, and ceaselessly imaginative, the plays collected here present a chilling one-woman vision of alienation (Polythene Pam); the comic and tragic impossibility of human connection (Truelove); an irresponsible punk couple horrified to find they've become parents to the Messiah (Flybaby); conjoined twins plunged into an off-kilter world of rampant advertising, animal terrorism and a perfume made from monkey semen (cult-classic JISM); a real-life 20th-century martyr tested to his limits in the afterlife by a vengeful gang of defrocked saints (The Temptations of St Max); and the not-so-quiet desperation of a fearful hoarder fighting to survive the night hours (Panic!). Supporting the plays are introductions and selected images from the writers and other BATS practitioners which vividly recapture a crucial time and place in New Zealand's theatre history.