WRITERS WRITE: ACTORS READ
Donna Botha + Doug Brooks + Bridget van der Zijpp
Writers Write: Actors Read, which features well-known local actors Doug Brooks and Donna Botha reading short stories by Aotearoa’s best writers, will be recorded live at this year’s Nelson Arts Festival. Series producer Bridget van der Zijpp will introduce the readings.
Come along for some brilliant storytelling. Writers Write: Actors Read is a New Zealand podcast series with well-known actors reading short stories by Aotearoa’s best writers to a live audience.
In this episode of Writers Write: Actors Read, which will be recorded live at this year’s Nelson Arts Festival, Doug Brooks will read Lawrence Patchett’s ‘Big Bastard’, from his short story collection, Have This Heart, and Donna Botha will read Susanna Elliffe’s story, ‘Patron Saints of Roadkill’, from the short story collection of the same name.
Come along and be part of the show – with the audience getting the rare chance to join the actors on stage at the NCMA Auditorium.
Donna Botha
Doug Brooks
Doug Brooks is a New Zealand born writer, actor and director of European and Ngāti Pāmoana descent and co-founder of the Top of the South Filmmakers. Beginning as an actor before branching out to teaching, writing, directing, and producing, he has been a key player in the growing filmmaking community in his home base of Nelson. His recent acting credits include the short film Blue Moon, the BBC series Mystic, US series The Wilds, and Shortland Street.
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NCMA, ON STAGE
Sun 25 Oct | 7pm | 60 min
$18.50 – $25
All ages
Audio based
