Andrew Porteous

16b Grandview Crescent

Opoho,Dunedin 9010

(03) 473 8929 ; 027 473 8929

Andrew Porteous fell off the rails some time in 1996 and is gradually finding his way back.

He won the Kingi McKinnon Scholarship for Emerging New Zealand Writers in 2008, and was second runner-up in the PANZ Playwriting Competition 2009.

THE WAR ON OBESITY

Comedy

5 minutes

First Produced by Urban Vineyard in February 2007.
Directed by David Foote.

Cast: 4 actors.

Synopsis: The War on Obesity has begun and living room furniture, long the bastion of couch potatoes, are the first casualties.

REVOLT!

Drama, 45 minutes

First Produced by Allen Hall Theatre in October 2008.

Directed by Matt Kilsby-Halliday

Cast: 3 Male, 2 Female. University Students. All in late teens/early 20s.

Synopsis: The revolt is here and Che Guevara would be turning in his grave! Gone are the days when Otago students had something worthy to fight for, and so when one student becomes a revolutionary without a revolution the consequences of his actions go far beyond what he could have imagined. Viva la Revolution!

THE CYCLE

Drama

1.5 hours

Second Runner-up PANZ 2009 Playwriting Competition

Cast: 3 males, 2 females.

Farmer Bob Handley: Male, 60s, Pakeha.
Wiremu: Male, 30s, Maori.

Oliver Handley: Male, 30s, Pakeha.

Angela Handley: Female, 30s, Pakeha.

Miriama: Female, 60s, Maori.

Synopsis: The Cycle explores the issue of child abuse in Rural New Zealand. Wiremu is a young Maori solo father living with his Auntie Miriama in an old state house. He is visited by Angela and Oliver, old childhood friends whose father, Bob Handley, sexually abused them when they were children.

Angela has a plan to take revenge on Bob Handley and seeks Wiremu’s help, playing on their shared past and his own feelings as a father in order to convince him to do so.

Revenge is served but does nothing to help Wiremu forget the abuse he suffered, and a silent witness from the past finally steps forward and takes action to bring a close to the diabolical events that unfold.

the Playwrights Association of New Zealand - PANZ