Sir Roger Hall marks 50 years since his first smash hit play

Glide Time opened at Circa Theatre on 11 August 1976 with a waitlist of more than 1,000 people, and audiences laughed before a line was even spoken, recognising their own offices on stage. Sir Roger Hall wrote it in a Connecticut library while attending a playwriting workshop where Meryl Streep was one of the actors, after deciding he could do better than the plays he was watching. Five decades and more than 40 plays later, Hall sits at home on Auckland's North Shore and admits the muse has largely left, but is still curious whether a new generation will find Glide Time funny or merely strange as it prepares to take the stage again in September.