Plays about Mansfield

On The Rocks

On the Rocks is Amy Rosenthal’s brilliantly funny  play based on the episode in 1916 where Katherine Mansfield and John Middleton Murry spent a few fraught weeks in Cornwall with D. H. Lawrence and his wife Frieda. It was a triumphant success at the Hampstead Theatre in London in 2008 and was performed at the Court Theatre, Christchurch, NZ, 17 June – 17 July 2010.  Read KMS member Melissa C. Reimer’s wonderful review and detailed interview with the cast.

View Court Theatre 2010 Production Poster

The Dazzling Night

The Dazzling Night is an unusual play about Katherine Mansfield, by Rachel McAlpine, Rachel is a novelist, poet, playwright, and author of about 30 books. From 1993-1995 she was Guest Professor at Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts in Kyoto, Japan. There she learned to love the ritualistic, meditative, alien beauty of Noh theatre, and also met many Katherine Mansfield devotees. Writing The Dazzling Night, a Noh play about Katherine Mansfield, was the inevitable result. The play has had one successful production in Auckland. For information about other aspects of Rachel's life, see www.writing.co.nz.