WRITERS WRITE: ACTORS READ - Donna Botha + Doug Brooks + Bridget van der Zijpp

Writers Write: Actors Read, which features well-known local actors Doug Brooks and Donna Botha reading short stories by Aotearoa’s best writers, will be recorded live at this year’s Nelson Arts Festival. Series producer Bridget van der Zijpp will introduce the readings. Come along for some brilliant storytelling. Writers Write: Actors Read is a New Zealand podcast series with well-known actors reading short stories by Aotearoa’s best writers to a live audience. In this episode of Writers Write: Actors Read, which will be recorded live at this year’s Nelson Arts Festival, Doug Brooks will read Lawrence Patchett’s ‘Big Bastard’, from his short story collection, Have This Heart, and Donna Botha will read Susanna Elliffe’s story, ‘Patron Saints of Roadkill’, from the short story collection of the same name. Come along and be part of the show – with the audience getting the rare chance to join the actors on stage at the NCMA Auditorium.