Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Sir Roger Hall's 'Glide Time' opened at Wellington's fledgling Circa Theatre on 11 August 1976, with 'Middle-Age Spread' a year later | Subscribe: youtube.com/RNZVideo?sub_confirmation=1

"A Roger Hall play meant something, and it set me up financially very well. Middle Age Spread went to Australia then London where it spent 15 months in the West End. It was a nice little cash sum at the end."

Glide Time is set for a 50th anniversary revival at the PumpHouse Theatre, where Hall is patron.

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