Ladies Night (play)
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Ladies' Night, a play by the New Zealand
writers Stephen Sinclair
and Anthony McCarten
about a group of unemployed workers who develop a male strip show. It was first performed in December 1987 at Auckland's Mercury Theatre
and has been described as the most commercially successful play in New Zealand's theatre history. It had several national tours followed by tours in the UK between 1990 and 1994 and has been translated into six languages.
In 2001 it received the Molière Award
for Best Comedy.
In 1998, McCarten launched a multi-million pound lawsuit in California, USA against the producers of the 1997 film The Full Monty
which has a strikingly similar theme and was the highest grossing British film. It was dismissed because the film had been made in England. Their attorney was quoted as saying "I've been doing this for 40 years, and this is as solid a copyright case as I've ever seen."
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
writers Stephen Sinclair
Stephen Sinclair
Stephen Sinclair is a New Zealand film and television writer and emerging director.As a screenwriter, Sinclair has worked with director Peter Jackson on Meet the Feebles, Braindead and The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. He has directed several short films, including Home Video and Ride, which...
and Anthony McCarten
Anthony McCarten
-Biography:Born in 1961 in New Plymouth, Anthony McCarten's novels have been translated into 14 languages. His first novel, Spinners , was voted one of the top ten novels of that year by Esquire magazine. His third novel, Death Of A Superhero, won the 2008 Austrian Youth Literature Prize and was a...
about a group of unemployed workers who develop a male strip show. It was first performed in December 1987 at Auckland's Mercury Theatre
Mercury Theatre (Auckland)
The Mercury Theatre is a theatre in Auckland, New Zealand, located on Mercury Lane, off Karangahape Road. It was built in 1910, by the architect Edward Bartley and is the oldest surviving theatre in Auckland. Built in the English Baroque style, it was initially known as the Kings Theatre. However,...
and has been described as the most commercially successful play in New Zealand's theatre history. It had several national tours followed by tours in the UK between 1990 and 1994 and has been translated into six languages.
In 2001 it received the Molière Award
Molière Award
The Molière Award is the national theatre award of France decided by the Association professionnelle et artistique du théâtre and given out every April or May since 1987, during a ceremony called La Nuit des Molières . The award was created by Georges Cravenne, who was also the creator of the...
for Best Comedy.
In 1998, McCarten launched a multi-million pound lawsuit in California, USA against the producers of the 1997 film The Full Monty
The Full Monty
The Full Monty is a 1997 British comedy film directed by Peter Cattaneo, starring Robert Carlyle, Mark Addy, William Snape, Steve Huison, Tom Wilkinson, Paul Barber, and Hugo Speer. The screenplay was written by Simon Beaufoy...
which has a strikingly similar theme and was the highest grossing British film. It was dismissed because the film had been made in England. Their attorney was quoted as saying "I've been doing this for 40 years, and this is as solid a copyright case as I've ever seen."