Sons for the Road

Auckland's Massive Company began in 1998 as a youth theatre group, committed to developing multicultural talent. Sons for the Road records a big moment in their evolution: performing at London's Royal Court Theatre, whose long history includes launching another piece of cross-cultural fertilisation, The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Their play is The Sons of Charlie Paora, a tale of rugby players and troubled male identity developed by Massive and UK writer Lennie James (who would later join the cast of hit TV show The Walking Dead). The Independent called the play "wonderfully engaging".

Monday morning: four nights till the opening. We’re at the theatre to rehearse, and we get the word that Lennie James, our writer, fresh from a film shoot in the Sahara, has arrived.

– Actor Joe Folau

Key Cast & Crew

Jim Marbrook

Director, Camera

Philippa Mossman

Producer

Simon Shazell

Sound

Andrew Kindley-James

Sound

Markus Rapp

Sound

Gilles Aristizabel

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