Written by Plato restaurant co-owner Rebecca Tansley, the drama is set in the restaurant's snooker room, which doubles as a waiting room between life and death for the actors' characters.
The script was selected as part of the Table Tops drama series, which aims to give regional scriptwriters a chance to have their ideas made into television dramas.
Having spent three and a-half years of directing Shortland Street, Auckland-based Anna Marbrook was asked to produce and direct four of the six dramas.
The concept behind Table Tops was to encourage regional scriptwriters to write a script involving a cast of four or fewer, with the drama to take place around a table, she said.
"In this case, it is set around a snooker table, and it becomes a game of life between two of the characters as they play in a waiting room between life and death."
The series would be set in other cities including Christchurch, Invercargill, Gisborne and Napier, involving local cast and crew filming local screenplays.
"It is important for New Zealand to see drama coming from places that isn't just Auckland or Wellington."
Ms Marbrook said the cast and crew were exceptionally talented and "we will be producing something unique for television".
The six-part series, which is funded by New Zealand on Air, will screen on Maori Television in September.
