. So sad to hear the Fortune Theatre is closing down in Dunedin. It’s not acceptable and it is a sad day for New Zealand and New Zealanders. I saw the play my father wrote for my mother at The Fortune when I was 15 years old and it really was a wonderful performance and opened to great reviews. My father was the poet R. A. K. Mason and the play he wrote for her was called “ Strait is the Gate”. My fathers poems are online on a website. He was one of NZ’s greatest poets of long ago days now I suppose and Dylan Thomas admired his work. He wrote gnarled gritty poems that asked the great questions and often had a wry dark humour with them. I know he would be saddened by the closing of The Fortune. What I don’t understand or agree with is why there is so much money for football stadiums and so little for the Arts in New Zealand? It’s upside-down thinking and shows a lack of understanding in the way the world really moves or should move by those in high positions who should have learned to understand and to think things through better than they have. 😢 It makes me sad to think about it! Can we all donate a little money to see if it can be saved? If there are any donors out there- let me know! It is a worthwhile project. Check out the articles online about it. Cheers -Kat Mason, a thespian. #fortunetheatredunedin #thefortunetheatre #rakmason #straitisthegate #plays #theatre #nztheatre #savethefortune #savetheatre #newzealandtheatre #katzolitamasonjournal #fortunetheatre #dunedin