Stephen Sinclair

When Russell has starts an affair with the solo mum downstairs,  he sets in motion a series of events which culminate in murder. But who...

Stephen Sinclair and friends bring the musical form into the texting age with a new work,  Love Me Tinder. A show for three performers...

Insomniacs is a play about five people who can’t get to sleep. Nancy is an obsessive compulsive who stays up all night cleaning her...

Set in Marlborough in the late 1860s, The Bellbird brings the worlds of Maori and Pakeha together in a haunting play of passion, family...

Written by Stephen Sinclair, Frances Walsh, Philippa Boyens and Peter Jackson

By Stephen Sinclair and Danny Mulheron “The funniest NZ play I have ever seen!” Denis Welch, NZ Listener, November 1989. Outrageous farce...

INTIMACIES is comprised of two thematically linked one act plays set in the near future, which explore the ways in which the new...

Two young crims, Mitch and Pete, break into a building unaware that social worker Clare is working late. Intercoils themes of sex and...

Addenda Publishing, 2004 “A virtuoso performance … superb poems …” Iain Sharp, Sunday Star Times, January 2004

Home is the strangest destination Familiar sights can pull you suddenly Down dark winding stairs The silence after exhalation Calls you...

They are going down now to the streets, to the rivers, the beaches. They leave their beds and their houses to stream out into the open...

One may try For joy and Not see his Own sad end. Two can fly All day and Die. Add but One and yea: All our joy.

A decade past A small town A hotel room A glass of flat beer on the bedside table Steam from the thermal baths Seasons the night air...

Written by Stephen Sinclair, Frances Walsh and Peter Jackson

Short Film, Produced by Severe Films and Stephen Sinclair, 2005. When freeloader Alan is invited to stay with Tara and Geoff, he thinks...

Stephen Sinclair – Writer Love Mussel is a wide ranging parody whose targets include its own medium, television, and its star, Kevin...

New edition coming in March 2025 Penguin Books, 1995. A mysterious greyness has descended on Whitehaven. Something has happened to the...

Spineless Press, 2000 Three petty crims embark on a road trip that goes horribly wrong. Older than his Maori companions, Pakeha Morton...

New Zealand playwrights are a funny old bunch. There are too few of us, and we are too individualistic to achieve much in the way of...