The Unforgiven Harvest and Lead Wait by Jo Randerson
The Unforgiven Harvest
“powerfully imagined and psychologically astute… hypnotically wind(s) up the tension” New Zealand Listener
A rural New Zealand family near breaking point, with relationships held together by role-playing and the abuse of power. By the end, we see that nobody is innocent and that revenge is not always a dish best served cold.
The Lead Wait
“…taking its audience into realms which they probably never thought possible” Evening Post
With fractured characters living fractured lives in a fractured house, this play too deals with cruelty, loss and unforgiveness. What is Leon really looking for under the house and will he cope with what he finds? Will Juliet forgive their mysterious visitor and accept the offer he makes?
Jo became involved as a writer, director and performer in theatre productions for the Victoria University Student Drama Club and has since gone on to write, produce and perform in productions that have toured the world extensively.
Jo participated in Bill Manhire's creative writing course at Victoria University in 1997 where she was awarded the Prize for Best Portfolio. That year she also received the Bruce Mason Award after her first play Fold (part of the Young and Hungry season at BATS).
Her writing has twice been shortlisted for the International Institute of Modern Letters Prize and has earned her the following writing fellowships: Robert Burns Fellow (Dunedin), Winston Churchill Fellow (Russia) and the Creative New Zealand/Department of Conservation Wild Creations Residency at Cape Kidnappers.
She was also a Billy T James Comedy Award Nominee in 2005.
Jo’s writing and collaborations include: The Knot and Through the Door; The Spit Children; The Keys to Hell; The Sojourns of Boy with Briar Grace-Smith, and halo with Douglas Wright. Her most recent projects have been as curator of My House Surrounded By A Thousand Suns, an exhibition of artists with experience of mental illness and intellectual disability at The New Dowse in 2008, and in 2009 the premiere of her new play Good Night - The End at Downstage Theatre.
She received the Sonja Davies Peace Award in 2010 to assist her study as a director and currently lives in Wellington with her husband and son.
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