Stephen Sinclair Explained

Stephen Sinclair is a New Zealand playwright, screenwriter and novelist. He is the co-author of stage comedy Ladies Night. In 2001, the French version won the Molière Award for stage comedy of the year. Other plays include The Bellbird and The Bach, both of which are prescribed texts for Drama Studies in New Zealand secondary schools.

He has co-written several films with Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh, notably Meet The Feebles, Braindead, and . He also wrote and directed the feature film Russian Snark, which premiered at the 2010 New Zealand Film Festival in Auckland, and won numerous international awards.

Sinclair has written the novels Thief of Colours (Penguin Books, 1995), and Dread (Spineless Press, 2000), and a book of poetry, The Dwarf and the Stripper (2003).^[1]

Plays

Le Matau (The Fish Hook) (1984), co-written with journalist Samson Samasoni. Premiered at New Depot Theatre, Wellington, in February 1984,^[2] directed by Stephen Sinclair and Helen Jarroe The play tells the story of Ioane, who leaves Samoa to work in New Zealand to support his family, but faces pressures to conform to Pākehā ways of doing things.^[3] Also one of the earliest bi-lingual New Zealand plays.
Ladies Night, co-authored with Anthony McCarten, 1987.^[4]
Big Bickies (1990), a musical satire about an ordinary family winning the Lotto.
Caramel Cream (1991) depicting a relationship between a Māori teenager and his Pākehā social worker.
Drawer of Knives
Success (2015)^[5] ^[6]
Remain in Light, (2017)^[7]
Intimacies
The Bach, set in the Coromandel, shows family disintegration as two brothers and their wives spend time at the beach, while two of them are trying to write a script about iwi history.
The Bellbird (2002), in which a 19th-century Pākehā woman marries a Māori man; set in Marlborough.

Awards and festivals

Short films

Ride: Selected for the Montreal Film Festival in 2004.

Feature films

Russian Snark

Nominated for 6 awards at the Qantas Film and Television Awards in 2010, including Best Director.^[8]

Won the PFCS Award for Best Screenplay - Adapted at the Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards in 2003. Won the Nebula Award for Best Script at the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Awards in 2004.

Braindead

Won Best Screenplay at the New Zealand Film and Television Awards in 1993.

External links

Notes and References

Web site: Stephen Sinclair. 2021-08-02. Playmarket. en-US. 23 July 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210723170517/https://www.playmarket.org.nz/playwrights/stephen-sinclair/. live.
Book: Lisa Warrington. Floating Islanders: Pacifika Theatre in Aotearoa. O'Donnell. David. 2017. Otago University Press. 978-1-98-853107-6. Dunedin. en. Lisa Warrington. David O'Donnell (actor-director).
Book: Marc Maufort . David O'Donnell . 978-90-5201-359-6 . 1376-3199 . en . 23674269M . 466 . 2007 . Brussels . Peter Lang . Performing Aotearoa: New Zealand Theatre and Drama in an Age of Transition.
Web site: PRODUCTION INFORMATION: LADIES NIGHT - Theatreview. live. 2021-08-03. www.theatreview.org.nz. 3 August 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210803000936/https://www.theatreview.org.nz/reviews/production.php?id=7468.
Web site: SUCCESS - Study in failure proves success. 2021-08-03. www.theatreview.org.nz. 3 August 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210803001552/https://www.theatreview.org.nz/reviews/review.php?id=8348. live.
Web site: PRODUCTION INFORMATION: SUCCESS - Theatreview. live. 2021-08-03. www.theatreview.org.nz. 3 August 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210803001321/https://www.theatreview.org.nz/reviews/production.php?id=5917.
Web site: PRODUCTION INFORMATION: REMAIN IN LIGHT - Theatreview. live. 2021-08-03. www.theatreview.org.nz. 3 August 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210803001317/https://www.theatreview.org.nz/reviews/production.php?id=5606.
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