![]() ![]() In 2007 Armstrong and Kightley adapted the play for schools, so that it can be performed with a large cast. In her New Zealand Listener review of the Auckland Theatre Company production, Natasha Hay called Niu Sila "a triumph." The original "two-hander" play Niu Sila, which is written for 2 actors to play 24 characters, is published by Playmarket, and The Tutor is published in the same book. ![]() ![]() In 2006 Armstrong and Oscar Kightley received the Arts Foundation of New Zealand Award for Patronage, for Niu Sila which they co-wrote. It premiered at Downstage Theatre, and went on to win the 2004 Chapman Tripp Theatre Award for Best New New Zealand Play. 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. ![]() Good dialogue has a rhythm, so if you have a musical ear you can hear it when it works. Just about everything I have learnt about literary and dramatic structure has a parallel in classical music composition. His television writer credits include Spin Doctors, Seven Periods with Mr Gormsby, Great War Stories, and script editor for bro'Town. His work has featured on stage, radio and television. Dave Armstrong (born 1961) is a New Zealand playwright, screenwriter, trumpet player and columnist for The Dominion Post. ![]()
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