Lorae Parry Explained

Lorae Parry
Birth Date:1955
Birth Place:Sydney, Australia
Known For:playwriting, performance
Notable Works:Eugenia, 1996
Style:Parry's plays often explore sexuality, gender, and class systems.

Lorae Ann Parry is a New Zealand playwright and actor.[1]

Biography and education

She was born in 1955 in Sydney, Australia and in 1970 moved to New Zealand. Parry has two qualifications, a Diploma in Acting from Toi Whakaari, the national New Zealand Drama School in 1976,[2] and a Master in Scriptwriting from Victoria University of Wellington.

Career

A noted feminist playwright, Parry's plays often explore sexuality, gender, and class systems.[3] Her first plays, Strip, and Frontwomen, used a combination of realism and humor to promote empowerment of women and more acceptance of lesbianism. The play Frontwomen was a breakthrough in history when it was the first lesbian play performed in New Zealand.[4] However, her most influential play, Eugenia, was published in 1996 and explored the nature of sexuality and gender, as well as challenging social traditions around females. Eugenia is noted for its mixing of the magical and supernatural with the true historical figure Eugene Falleni, an Italian-Australian transgender man convicted of the 1917 murder of his first wife.[5] Parry constantly focuses on empowering women through theatre and through her plays, she focuses on the importance of women's lives.[6] She continues to be active in women's issues through play publishing and theatre.

Parry is a performer including being part of the Crows Feet Dance Collective, a dance company for women with a lowest age limit of 40 years.[7] [8] She is known for her stage impersonation of former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark.[9]

Plays

Film

Honours and awards

Notes and References

  1. Book: Forster. Michelanne. Plumb. Vivienne. Twenty New Zealand Playwrights. 2013. Playmarket. Wellington. 9780908607471.
  2. Web site: Graduate. 2021-08-09. www.toiwhakaari.ac.nz.
  3. Web site: Lorae, Parry. New Zealand Book Council. 8 August 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150923195323/http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/parry.html. 23 September 2015. dead.
  4. Book: Routledge international encyclopedia of queer culture. 2006. Routledge. Gerstner, David A., 1963-. 9780415306515. London. 62475216. registration.
  5. Edmond. Murray. 2004. How gothic is s/he? Three New Zealand dramas. . Australasian Drama Studies. 44. 113–129, 149.
  6. Web site: January 2017. Parry, Lorae. 2019-10-08. Read NZ.
  7. Web site: Crows Feets Dance - C is for Climate Change. 2021-09-10. DANZ. en-NZ.
  8. Web site: 2019-02-25. The Witch Project. 2021-09-10. The Big Idea. en.
  9. Web site: WRITING WELLINGTON: TWENTY YEARS OF VICTORIA UNIVERSITY WRITING FELLOWS. 2021-09-10. NZETC.
  10. Book: Parry. Lorae. Frontwomen. 1993. Women's Play Press. Wellington, N.Z.. 0473021714. 71.
  11. Book: Parry. Lorae. Cracks. 1994. Women's Play Press. Wellington, N.Z.. 0473021714. 76.
  12. Book: parry. Lorae. Eugenia. 1996. Victoria University Press. Wellington, [N.Z.]. 0864733046. 86.
  13. Book: Parry. Lorae. Vagabonds. 2002. Victoria University Press in association with Women's Play Press. Wellington [N.Z.]. 0864734352. 92.
  14. Book: Parry. Lorae. Bloomsbury women & the wild colonial girl. 2010. Women's Play Press. Wellington, N.Z.. 9780958231015. 43.
  15. Book: Birch. Dinah. Drable. Margaret. The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature. 2009. Oxford University. New York. 9780192806871.
  16. Web site: New Year honours list 2004 . 31 December 2003 . Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet . 15 February 2020.

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