Home Land

"Home Land is a mature, beautifully crafted work that will transfix New Zealand audiences for many years to come....certain to make its way into the small pantheon of classic New Zealand dramas." National Business Review

Farmer, Ken Taylor, is the ultimate Southern man. He knows his farm intimately, every stream and gully, every smell, every mood. He's farmed it for forty years, coaxed a living out of it and raised a family. Now widowed, Ken is ailing. His children think it's time for a new kind of home. On an ice- bound weekend in July, they gather to move Ken off the land.

This is a story about home. Why we need it, why we have to leave it, why we always return.
And why across the generations it endures.

Gary Henderson is one of our most prestigious playwrights. Home Land was commissioned by the Fortune Theatre in celebration of its 30th Birthday. It premiered in Dunedin in October 2004

“....a totally defibrillating thing. The topic of Henderson's exquisite script is essentially that old people have feelings, too, and we should reconsider shutting them in retirement homes. Listener - Best of 2004

Home Land - 'where the heart is'.

By Gary Henderson
Directed by Jane Waddell

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