Oscar Kightley: Author, actor and playwright on Dawn Raids showing in Wellington and how he got King Charles on Bro'Town
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Oscar Kightley has been a journalist, an author, and an actor - but he's also an acclaimed playwright.  He's the writer behind Dawn Raids, a play he wrote in the late 1990s exploring the horror of the raids targeting Pasifika overstayers in the 1970s. But 27 years later, the show has never been staged in the capital. That finally changes this week when Dawn Raids will be staged for two nights at the Wellington Opera House by the Pasifika theatre collective Pacifc Underground.  Kightley joined Nick Mills to discuss the show, his memories of the 1970s, and the incredible story behind how he arranged for King Charles to appear on one of his best-known projects Bro'Town. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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