September 17, 2019
DEAN PARKER: TWO TICKETS TO BARBARISM
The 2019 Rona Bailey Memorial Lecture
Presented by Labour History Project (LHP) New Zealand
“It’s salutary for a writer to stand in that queue at the men’s toilet at the old BATS theatre and hear your invasion-of-Iraq play with its crackling dialogue, complex characterisation and deft plotting reduced to how hot the belly-dancer is.”
Napier, Micks, musicals, London, socialism, the SUP, the WCL, the IRA, the FOL, the Writers’ Guild, the writing of politics and the politics of writing…
Two Tickets to Barbarism, National Library auditorium, Molesworth Street, Wellington, Thursday night, October 17, 6pm.
About the LHP
LABOUR HISTORY PROJECT (LHP) – NEW ZEALAND·
The struggles of working people have a long and significant history in Aotearoa New Zealand. The Labour History Project (formerly the Trade Union History Project) is an organisation dedicated to researching, recording, preserving and promoting this working-class history.
Formed in 1987 and made up of individual and institutional members, the Labour History Project organises seminars and conferences (such as the biennial Rona Bailey Memorial Lecture), publishes the LHP Bulletin, maintains the Bert Roth Award for Labour History, and supports a wide range of related projects (books, research, exhibitions, documentary films, archive projects and oral histories). The committee of the LHP is based in Wellington. It is not affiliated with the NZ Labour Party or any other political parties.
Interested in becoming a member? By joining the Labour History Project you will be supporting the promotion of working-class history, receive the LHP Bulletin three times a year, and keep up-to-date with the latest news, reviews and events. Membership is $30 for individual members or $75 for corporates or institutions. If you’d like to join please click here.
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