Prospect Park is a theatre production company in New Zealand. It was formed in 2016 by
Emily Duncan
Emily Tess Duncan is a New Zealand playwright. She is co-founder of Prospect Park Productions, an organisation aiming “to create and produce original New Zealand theatre and collaborative projects that reach into other art forms." Duncan hel ...
and H-J Kilkelly to foster new professional theatre-based work in the region. Duncan is a playwright and director and Kilkelly is a producer, both are from
Dunedin
Dunedin ( ; ) is the second-most populous city in the South Island of New Zealand (after Christchurch), and the principal city of the Otago region. Its name comes from ("fort of Edin"), the Scottish Gaelic name for Edinburgh, the capital of S ...
.
After the
Fortune Theatre
The Fortune Theatre is a 432-seat West End theatre in Russell Street, near Covent Garden, in the City of Westminster. From 1989 until 2023 the theatre hosted the long running play '' The Woman in Black''.
History
The site was acquired by aut ...
in Dunedin closed it left a gap with the loss of its development programme for emerging playwrights and theatre makers called the ''4X4 Programme''. Prospect Park picked up this idea and started both the ''Ōtepoti Theatre Lab'' and the ''Ōtepoti Writers Lab''.
Works
* ''Hold Me'' by Emily Duncan produced by Prospect Park
* ''Shaken'' by Emily Duncan produced by Prospect Park
* ''Eloise in the Middle'' by Emily Duncan produced by Prospect Park
* ''Dark Dunedin'' (2018) is a podcast series written by Emily Duncan produced by Prospect Park with support from Otago Access Radio,
Creative NZ, Creative Communities (Dunedin), the
Dunedin Fringe Festival 2018,
New Athenaeum Theatre, Olveston Historic Home, Archive Birds NZ, and Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature.
* ''Le Sujet Parle: And Then He Shot Me'' (2019) by Emily Duncan. Premiere - Dunedin Fringe Festival at Otago Museum.
* ''Thief'' (2021) ''-'' Written and performed by Kelly Hocking, Dunedin Fringe Festival at the Emerson's Festival Theatre, 20 Princes St. Initially programmed for 2020 but cancelled due to the lockdown brought by COVID-19. Hocking developed the play through Prospect Park's Ōtepoti Theatre Lab.
* ''The World's First Lovers'' - premiered 2023 at the
Kia Mau Festival
The Kia Mau Festival, previously called Ahi Kaa Festival, is a biennial performing arts festival in Wellington, New Zealand. In te reo Māori, kia mau is "a call to stay - an invitation to join us".
The festival covers Māori, Pasifika and In ...
, written by Jessica Latton and directed by Juanita Hepi.
References
External links
* https://oar.org.nz/dark-dunedin/
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Theatre companies in New Zealand
2016 establishments in New Zealand