This Artsville documentary profiles Roger Hall, New Zealand’s most successful playwright. Three decades after Hall's early play Middle Age Spread became a hit, the original cast return for 2006 follow-up Spreading Out. Director Shirley Horrocks explores the secrets behind Hall’s successful brand of comedy (which includes dozens of stage plays, and TV hit Gliding On), while closely exploring Middle Age Spread and Spreading Out. Alongside excerpts from both, there are interviews with John Clarke, Grant Tilly, Ginette McDonald on Hall's role in the birth of her character Lynn of Tawa, and Hall himself.
Roger Horrocks
Writer
Shirley Horrocks
Director, Writer
Grant Tilly
Himself
Peter Elliott
Himself
Roger Hall
Himself
Dai Henwood
Himself
Ray Henwood
Himself
Ross Jolly
Himself
Ginette McDonald
Herself
John Clarke
Himself
Fiona Samuel
Herself
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