Snells playwright on global stage at Monaco festival

From Dargaville to the Côte d’Azur, via Warkworth – Out of Mind comes to town on its way to France next month. From left, Yasmin Bainbridge, Deborah Parkinson, Brenda Polwart, Jasmine Humm (seated), Lorraine Ripikoi, playwright Deborah Steele and Julianne Parkinson, who wrote the music.

A Snells Beach teacher is swapping the school room for the South of France in August, after a musical she wrote was chosen to represent New Zealand at a prestigious international theatre festival. Out of Mind, which depicts treatment of patients at the Tokanui Psychiatric Hospital in the 1950s, was written by ...