Kaleidoscope - Bruce Mason 1921-1982

The Springbok fracas last year simply sorted us out into parties that I've always known were there. The sides really don't communicate, never have communicated. Its just that the Springbok tour put it onto television, where you could see them snarling at each other across barricades.

– Bruce Mason

Mostly our plays came from England or North America, but here was something indigenous you know, grown out of the ground....on the night of the show, it really went over as well as any play I could ever remember.

– Actor Charles Walker, on the debut of The Pohutukawa Tree