Dave Armstrong (born 1961) is a New Zealand playwright, screenwriter,
trumpet player and columnist for The Dominion Post.[1][2] His work has
featured on stage, radio and television. His television writer credits
include Spin Doctors, Seven Periods with Mr Gormsby, Great War
Stories, and script editor for bro'Town.[3]Armstrong states:In 2004
Dave Armstrong and Oscar Kightley co-wrote the play Niu Sila, about
the friendship between a Samoan and a Palagi boy in 1960s New
Zealand.[5] It premiered at Downstage Theatre, and went on to win the
2004 Chapman Tripp Theatre Award for Best New New Zealand Play. In
2006 Armstrong and Oscar Kightley received the Arts Foundation of New
Zealand Award for Patronage, for Niu Sila which they co-wrote.[6] In
her New Zealand Listener review of the Auckland Theatre Company
production, Natasha Hay called Niu Sila "a triumph."[7] The original
"two-hander" play Niu Sila, which is written for 2 actors to play 24
characters, is published by Playmarket, (The Tutor is published in the
same book),.[8] In 2007 Armstrong and Kightley adapted the play for
schools, so that it can be performed with a large cast. The schools'
version[9] was published in 2007 by the New Zealand branch of Cengage
Learning, and features study resources and drama activities. Niu Sila
is one of the prescribed plays for NCEA (NZ) Level 3 Assessment.
trumpet player and columnist for The Dominion Post.[1][2] His work has
featured on stage, radio and television. His television writer credits
include Spin Doctors, Seven Periods with Mr Gormsby, Great War
Stories, and script editor for bro'Town.[3]Armstrong states:In 2004
Dave Armstrong and Oscar Kightley co-wrote the play Niu Sila, about
the friendship between a Samoan and a Palagi boy in 1960s New
Zealand.[5] It premiered at Downstage Theatre, and went on to win the
2004 Chapman Tripp Theatre Award for Best New New Zealand Play. In
2006 Armstrong and Oscar Kightley received the Arts Foundation of New
Zealand Award for Patronage, for Niu Sila which they co-wrote.[6] In
her New Zealand Listener review of the Auckland Theatre Company
production, Natasha Hay called Niu Sila "a triumph."[7] The original
"two-hander" play Niu Sila, which is written for 2 actors to play 24
characters, is published by Playmarket, (The Tutor is published in the
same book),.[8] In 2007 Armstrong and Kightley adapted the play for
schools, so that it can be performed with a large cast. The schools'
version[9] was published in 2007 by the New Zealand branch of Cengage
Learning, and features study resources and drama activities. Niu Sila
is one of the prescribed plays for NCEA (NZ) Level 3 Assessment.
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