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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).
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 was not our country’s first queer playwright, but definitely its most prominent queer playwright for his time, give or take a Renée. His work is not revived as often as it...
Robert Lord 1945 - 1992. Robert was born in Rotorua and studied for an Arts Degree at Victoria University. In 1969 was awarded the Katherine Mansfield Young Writers Award. His first full length play It Isn't Cricket premiered at Downstage Theatre in 1971.
The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature called Lord "New Zealand's first professional playwright". Born in Rotorua in 1945, Lord studied arts at Otago and Victoria Universities. In 1969, he won the Katherine Mansfield short story contest, but soon shifted his attention to writing stage plays.
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.
Oct 23, 2023 · Robert was one of New Zealand’s most important playwrights and it is a tragedy he died so young.’ – Nonnita Rees ‘Robert was one of my favourite people and a wonderful man.’ – Sir Sam Neill. Robert Lord (1945–1992) is an important figure in the history of literature and theatre in Aotearoa New Zealand.
