The Suicidal Airplane

"We are claiming The Suicidal Airplane as NZ's first "Graphic Play". It's the original, "Draft 1", reproduced in FULL colour. Draft 2 is, and must be, the actual production. The format is unusual but the challenge the same as for any other play: -- interpretation of the script (here, drawings, which include much wonderful text) via devising, discussing, playing and simple props-making, into a stunning performance for the stage. It's as ideal for a professional company as it is for a collective of young, intelligent, adventurous student devisers hungry for an extremely unusual and exciting challenge. It will hold equal audience appeal for small children and cynical old adults. It provides the raw blueprint from which the acting company will create their production; the solid foundation on which the play rests, and from which it invites its interpreters, and its audience, to take flight. And this is an extremely solid foundation. It quickly becomes clear that what at first sight might appear to be an attractive piece of whimsy about an angst-ridden plane is actually a profound, perfectly structured, hauntingly beautiful, funny, wise and magical story, with a surprisingly tough little backbone."--Publisher's description.