Rutherford, The Face Maker & Bright Star: Three plays about exceptional New Zealanders

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STUART HOARS PLAYS bring three exceptional New Zealanders to life ; Ernest Rutherford, the Nelson-born scientist who split the atom; Archibald McIndoe, the plastic surgeon from Dunedin who remade the burnt faces of World War II pilots and helped heal their damaged psyches; Beatrice Tinsley, the New Plymouth and Christchurch educated astronomer and cosmologist whose research made a profound contribution to our understanding of how galaxies grow and evolve.

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Stuart Hoar is an acclaimed playwright, radio dramatist, novelist and librettist. He has won numerous playwriting awards and held several major residencies, including the Burns and the Katherine Mansfield Fellowships. Stuarts radio plays have been broadcast extensively here and overseas. He lives in Auckland.