Jackie van Beek . Since then Jackie has acted in numerous productions in both Wellington and Auckland, taking on the additional role of co-writer and deviser for many of them. Jackie is currently working on her first feature length screenplay and will be seen later this year playing a conservationist in a new New Zealand tele-feature. Conrad has since been busy being a grown-up with his play The Hand Job which premiered at BATS in December 2000, moving house, working on a new play and writing for the Gianni Versace Exhibition at Te Papa. Greta Wenmoth, Tamara Albert, Glen Pickering, David Shaerf, Kate Fitzroy, Ryan Hartigan, Noel Meek.
Home is where the herd is.
Butter Loving is a comedy about parental expectations, growing up, matchmaking and gumboots. Francie Maclean - Playwright . Butter Loving is Francie's first play. Francie grew up on a dairy farm in Golden Bay and during that time realised that she did not want to be a dairy farmer when she grew up. Her parents came to terms early with the idea that none of their children were rushing to take over the family farm, but Francie sometimes wondered what might have happened if they hadn't.