Actors don’t usually get to create their own roles. Instead, as our very own Robyn Malcolm will tell you, they turn up and do their best to interpret someone else’s vision for their character.
But all that has changed for Robyn now that she has co-created the tense drama After the Party, which is receiving rave reviews after its first episodes screened on TVNZ 1.
“I’ve never had an experience like this where you sit down with a friend and create something fresh together that I can portray,” says Robyn. “We knew we wanted to put a woman in her fifties at the centre of it. And we knew we wanted to make sure she was somebody that we’ve not seen on screen before.”
Robyn co-created the drama with her friend, screenwriter Dianne Taylor. The pair created the character of Penny, who is brave but wretched, strong but fallible and beautiful but wrinkled, and never seems to brush
