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    Jan 26, 2020 1 minute

    HONOURING MASON

    Belinda Robinson’s suggestion for improving Christmas television viewing (Talkback, January 18) with a screening of Ian Mune’s 1991 movie of Bruce Mason’s The End of the Golden Weather is inspired.

    In his book, celebrated NZ doyen of theatre Peter Harcourt describes the one-man play “as a beautiful evocation of New Zealand childhood and [displaying] a sensitive New Zealander’s awareness of his [Mason’s] environment … it could legitimately be called the greatest single contribution to theatre yet made by any New Zealander”.

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