Standing Room Only for Sunday 18 November 2018

 

12:30  Te Ao Maori in a Te Ao Pakeha Media - Hone Kouka

This week the Dowse Art Museum in Lower Hutt hosted Connection: an Arts Communications Hui, gathering together arts marketers, communicators and PR people with artists and media heads to discuss arts media coverage. Mark Amery was there and caught up with playwright and theatre producer Hone Kouka after a talk he gave to discuss changes in the way Maori feature in the media, the paucity of Maori arts journalists and why collectively the future still looks bright for contemporary Maori arts.

 

12:45 Literary translator - Peter Constantin

In the arcane world of literary translation, Peter Constantine is something of a superstar. He's translated the works of Frenchmen - Rousseau and Voltaire - Russians - Tolstoy and Gogol - not to mention modern Greek poetry and Ancient Greek classics, including Homer. Peter is at Wellington's Victoria University this week and last week he was a guest at the Indigenous Research Conference in Auckland.  Simon Morris talks to him about translation, and what can get lost thee.

 

1:10 At The Movies

This week Simon Morris reviews New Zealand drama Vermilion, the latest Lisbeth Salander thriller The girl in the spider's web, and a new adaptation of World War One drama, Journye's end.

 

1:33 10 Ways to F**k Up Your Female Characters - Fiona Samuel

Film and television writers Fiona Samuel and Kathyrn Burnett have been at the Spada conference this week sharing their secrets on writing female characters. Fiona lets Simon Morris in some common pitfalls.

Writer Fiona Samuel has been creating original drama since she graduated from the New Zealand Drama School at the age of 20. As a writer and director, playwright and actor, she has worked in television, radio, film and theatre and has created award-winning dramas in all these fields. Her recent trifecta of female-driven dramas has won multiple awards, high ratings and audience acclaim. Fiona currently has two feature films in development, Jerusalem and A Handful of Days.

 

1:50 Unconventional Architecture - Simon Devitt and Tony Watkins

Most architectural photography presents the building as a showroom, a beautiful object, but one of our leading architectural photographers Simon Devitt has created a series of photographs that portray a life through images of a home. Simon has teamed up with maverick architect, writer and environmentalist Tony Watkins to publish a photographic essay of Tony's remarkable home in Karaka Bay Auckland which Tony began building and writing about in the 1970s.

Simon Devitt has made a career of focusing his camera on architecture.His first self-published photobook was on the celebrated Ian Athfield house in Wellington and these days he also lectures on the subject at the University of Auckland.

Mark Amery talks to Simon and Tony about their book Unconventional Architecture, the second in a series Simon has called Ripe Fruit, introducing us to people through images, and is launched at the Auckland Art Gallery this week.

 

2:06 The Laugh Track - Lara Liew

Our guest is Dynamotion choreographer Lara Liew in Auckland, a leading comedy dance choreographer and the woman behind Monster Mash at Q Theatre.  her laugh picks: DeAnne Smith, The Flight of the Conchords, Hannah Gadsby and Karl Pilkington.

 

2:25 The Writing Life - Tessa Duder and Deborah Shepard

A pioneering generation of writers raised after the Second World War have founded the rich diverse literary landscape that we have today. A dozen of them are the subject of a new book telling their own stories of their lives, published by Massey university Press.

The Writing Life is an oral history project in which writers ranging from Witi ihimeara to Joy Cowley, Patricia Grace to Vincent O'Sullivan speak frankly about their own life journeys, the challenges and the opportunities. The book features some rather beautiful portraits by photographer John McDermott. We're joined by the author oral historian Deborah Shepard and one of those rather special writers Tessa Duder.

 

2:40 Codename Intelligentsia - Russell Campbell on Ivor Montagu

The early film industry was like no other, and it attracted more than its fair share of, shall we say, 'outsiders'.  America went in for hucksters and con-men.  England preferred eccentrics and aristocrats - and no Englishman was more eccentric than the aristocratic Ivor Montagu, one-time producer for Alfred Hitchcock, and enthusiastic Russian spy.

Russell Campbell, Associate Professor of Film at Victoria University has written Codename Intelligentsia, The life and times of the Honourable Ivor Montagu, Filmmaker, Communist, Spy. It is published by The History Press.  Simon Morris wonders why the story was buried so long.

 

2:49 Here Lies Love - Fatboy Slim and David Bryne musical in Auckland

Here Lies Love written by art-rock superstar David Byrne and dance-music king Fatboy Slim gets its Australiasian premiere with Auckland's Silo Theatre. A musical about Imelda Marcos starring plenty of New Zealand female vocal brilliance. Simon Morris talks to musical director Robin Kelly.   Here lies love opens at Auckland's Q Theatre on November the 22nd.
 

3:06 Drama at 3 - Madness You Can Trust by Brian Sergent