Prospect Park Productions NZ

Prospect Park is a theatre production company in New Zealand. It was formed in 2016 by Emily Duncan 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 Ōtepoti Dunedin.[1][2][3]

Prospect Park Productions NZ
Formation2016 (2016)
PurposeProducing theatre
Location
Membership
H-J Kilkelly, Emily Duncan
Websitehttps://www.prospectpark.co.nz
brick building two stories
Carnegie Centre, headquarters of Prospect Park Productions

After the Fortune Theatre 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.[1][4][5][6][7]

Works
  • Hold Me by Emily Duncan produced by Prospect Park[3]
  • Shaken by Emily Duncan produced by Prospect Park[3]
  • Eloise in the Middle by Emily Duncan produced by Prospect Park[3]
  • 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.[8]
  • Le Sujet Parle: And Then He Shot Me (2019) by Emily Duncan. Premiere - Dunedin Fringe Festival at Otago Museum.[1]
  • Thief (2021) - Written and performed by Kelly Hocking, Dunedin Fringe Festival at the Emerson's Festival Theatre, 20 Princes St.[9][10][11] 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.[12]
  • The World's First Lovers - premiered 2023 at the Kia Mau Festival, written by Jessica Latton and directed by Juanita Hepi.[13]

References
  1. "Prospect Park Productions - A Play and A Programme". Scoop News. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
  2. "Prospect Park Productions". Prospect Park Productions. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
  3. "Bio Emily Duncan 2019". Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
  4. "PANNZ - COVID-19 - Performing Arts industry - updates". Performing Arts Network of New Zealand. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
  5. "Ōtepoti Theatre Lab: Dive Into Writing". Stuff Events. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
  6. "Play:Ground - Breakfast Readings: CANCELLED : Dunedin Fringe Festival". Dunedin Fringe. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
  7. "News — Dunedin City of Literature". City of Literature NZ. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
  8. "Dark Dunedin". OAR FM Dunedin. 14 February 2018. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
  9. Breslin, Liz (29 March 2021). "Dispatches from the fringes". Otago Daily Times Online News. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
  10. "Thief". Eventfinda. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
  11. "Thief!". Dunedin City of Literature. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
  12. Fox, Rebecca (11 March 2021). "Shared experience". Otago Daily Times Online News. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
  13. BATS. "The World's First Lovers". BATS. Archived from the original on 15 June 2023. Retrieved 15 June 2023.
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