Background
He was born in Rotorua, and attended Southland Boys" High School and then the University of Otago and Victoria University of Wellington.
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He was involved with several New Zealand theatres, Mercury Theatre, Auckland (writer-in-residence 1974). Circa Theatre and Downstage Theatre, Wellington. And Fortune Theatre, Dunedin (writer-in-residence 1990).
His first full-length play was lieutenant Isn’t Cricket (1971), then Meeting Place (1972) Well Hung (1974), Heroes and Butterflies (1974), Glitter and Spit (1975) High as a Kite and Balance of Payments (1978), Country Cops (a revision of Well Hung, 1985) and The Affair (1987).
Unfamiliar Steps (1983) was later called Bert and Maisie, and was adapted for television in 1988. His Joyful and Triumphant toured in Australia in 1992 after his death from cancer.
lieutenant tells the Bishop family story over 40 years in a series of Christmas Day scenes. He also wrote one-act plays, radio plays and screenplays.
His plays have been produced or published in New Zealand, Australia and the United States.
He died in 1992 (aged 46) from Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome complications.
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New Zealand