Anahera
By (Author) Emma Kinane
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Oberon Books Ltd
3rd September 2019
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
Literary studies: plays and playwrights
Coping with / advice about abuse
Social work
Child abuse
822.92
Winner of Most Outstanding New New Zealand play 2017
Paperback
120
Width 130mm, Height 198mm, Spine 5mm
122g
11-year-old Harry Hunter is missing.
While they wait for news, Anahera a newly qualified Maori social worker supports Harrys distraught parents.
But as the hours pass and the situation pushes everyone to their limits, Anahera is forced to take a stand.
A European debut for an exciting new voice from New Zealand.
Anahera is right up there, one of the best pieces of theatre Ive seen and heard and experienced...A must-see event, a world-class piece of theatre.
Emma Kinane is an award-winning writer and actor. She is a graduate of Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School and has worked as an actor, writer and director in theatre, television, film and radio. She has a Master's Degree in Scriptwriting from the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University. Her writing includes co-writing the plays Turbine, Paua and The December Brother with the SEEyD Collective, her radio play Clouds which aired on Radio NZ in 2014, and short film Bastard, part of the 2018 anthology feature Encounters. Her latest play Micronation Street recently had a workshop and rehearsed reading at Circa Theatre, Wellington.