Bruce Stewart (playwright)
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Tawatawa Ridge sculpture
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| Born | 1936 Hamilton, New Zealand |
| Died |
(aged 80) Wellington, New Zealand |
| Occupation | Playwright |
| Education | Wairarapa College |
| Subject | Anger, confused loyalties and spiritual aspiration of late-20th-century Māori |
| Notable works | Tama, and Other Stories |
Bruce Stewart (1936 – 28 June 2017) was a New Zealand fiction writer and dramatist of Ngāti Raukawa Te Arawa descent. Stewart's work is marked by expressions of the anger, confused loyalties and spiritual aspiration of late-twentieth-century Māori.
Born in Hamilton, Stewart grew up in the Wairarapa and was educated at Wairarapa College.
He lived mainly in Wellington, where he successfully set up the first work trust and founded Tapu Te Ranga Marae at Island Bay, creating a centre for debate and education in Māori culture and protocol and for the redevelopment of native bush. He was president of Nga Puna Waihanga (Maori Writers and Artists Society) in 1982.
Stewart died at Tapu Te Ranga on 28 June 2017.
Broken Arse was published in Into the World of Light (1982) and Stewart later rewrote it as a playscript, which was performed in Wellington in 1990, televised and published by Victoria University Press in 1991. In that dramatic form, the strength of the rebellious prisoners stomping and chanting in unison became even more powerful as haka.
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