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Simon Taylor
The Tilting Point – screenplay for a short film (2008)
the first of an intended series
EXT. SCENIC DRIVE — MID AFTERNOON
A late-model four-door Landrover (e.g. a Discovery) heads from Karekare North-West along Scenic Drive.
INT. LANDROVER — CONTINUOUS
A woman in her early to mid forties drives, GENEVIEVE MARTEL.
She is dressed casually, pants, a top and low-heeled sandals.
Street Musicians (for Tassos Denegris) by John Ash
There must be mountains
inside those clouds
and the sea still exists
where the port once was.
A bitter rain attacks
the last, Byzantine well-heads,
and the custodian eyes you suspiciously
as if you might steal that acanthus
fragment or postcard of a saint—
as if understanding were possession.
The
Obituary: Anthony Frederick Taylor 1937 – 2009
Tony Taylor was a great man of the theatre. A master of his craft, he directed over 80 plays, opera, musicals and a mass in a 50-year career in New Zealand.
He loved actors and changed lives. During his sojourn he launched the careers of many of today’s actors.
Cultural Colonisation: Dilemma of the small nation - Anthony Taylor (1982)
A Piece of Fabric, Tell it to the birds & lying in long grass - for my parents
I wrote A Piece of Fabric for my father, Anthony Frederick Taylor 2 January 1937 – 24 April 2009.
I read A Piece of Fabric at the memorial service, held at St. Matthew-in-the-City, Auckland, 29 April 2009. The service went over four hours. Raymond Boyce spoke, Roger Hall remonstrated, Paul Barrett
a piece of identity – monologue with slideshow (2008)
C stands in front of a black and white video still – the face of a woman in close up.
C
One must first divest oneself of the notion of the unknowable, of the Unknown: silk is over the photo, silk of the process. A procedural coating, like albumen – silver nitrate