Rubbings From A Live Man

Name: New Zealand Film Commission
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Warwick Stanley Broadhead has survived four heart attacks, a triple bypass operation and the guilt and grief of his mother’s and his sister’s suicides. Born in Auckland New Zealand in 1944, he grew up in a working class...

New Zealand Production

Feature 2008 Documentary 75.00 minutes

In a career that spans forty years, Warwick Broadhead has conceived, directed and performed in over sixty original shows presented in a huge variety of venues both in New Zealand and abroad. He has never allowed his work to be recorded. But now, faced with a director’s provocations, the flamboyant performer is pushed to re-enact the highest and lowest moments of his life using his own cast of alter egos. From lavish scenes with opulent costuming to the intimate whisperings of a man alone, Warwick bears his soul in phases. He revisits the young man in 1950’s suburbia; the orgy of self-discovery in 60’s San Francisco; the moments of reflection as an artist in the maze of his local sauna. Rubbings from a Live Man is a testament to one man’s ability to stare his life in the face, by performing it anew.