Green Room
13 January 2010
The first Green Room ever, glaziers, teflon and Dave Armstrong.
In the first Green Room post ever, playwright Dave Armstrong talks about where the idea for Le Sud came from, satire and glaziers:
“I’m an equal-opportunity satirist. My style of theatre is to mercilessly poke the borax at as many different social, linguistic, cultural and sexual groups as possible - that’s my job. The idea for a play about the French claiming the south island had been percolating for about 40 years. Ever since I learned about the French in Akaroa at school.
“We’ve all had teachers who said how New Zealand or the South Island could have been French had a British warship reached Akaroa a few days later. I just took the idea to a logical (or, in the case of the French, illogical) conclusion. I was fascinated by how different our country would be if we had been colonised by the French. The coffee and the bread would certainly be better, and the All Black backline might be far better-looking and have more flair”.
Read the full blog entry here
