Methuen Drama, 1999

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (5), Female (1), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...A brutal portrait of Northern English life in the early 1970s, Blowjob is an insightful and raw piece about the nature of alienation and violence. The play plunges into the despair of industrial workers, skinheads and a mentally ill girl...

Methuen Drama, 1999

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (8), Female (4), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Darwin’s Flood asks the big questions about life and death with a little help from some of history’s greatest and most controversial philosophers and thinkers. On the night of his death, Charles Darwin is visited by the Belfast-accented...

Methuen Drama, 1999

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (7), Female (2), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...An outrageous mix of history, mythology, Christian doctrine and Shakespearean comedy, More Light is Snoo Wilson’s surrealist foray into the tradition of Elizabethan drama. Giordano Bruno, Renaissance mathematician and astrologist, has been...

Methuen Drama, 1999

Contemporary Dramatists

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Roles: Total (6), Female (2), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Pignight, written and first directed by Snoo Wilson, is the madcap story of a German POW, Smitty, who has escaped from the local asylum to work on a pig farm. But Smitty has a problem – the pigs are controlling his mind and they’re telling...

Methuen Drama, 2000

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (6), Female (2), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Sabina is based on the true story of the relationship – by turns therapeutic, personal and collegial – between Sabina Spielrein and Carl Jung. Spielrein, who was entrusted to Jung's care in 1905, went on to make a remarkable recovery...

Methuen Drama, 1995

Play Anthologies

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Scenes: 9, Roles: Total (20), Female (2), Male (18), Unassigned (0)

...Ivan Varlet is making a class change. As he prepares to marry his bourgeois bride, the former mechanic casts off his socialist acquaintances and re-invents himself as ‘Ivor Violet’. Before he can embark on his new life, however, a fire...

Methuen Drama, 2000

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 8, Roles: Total (13), Female (4), Male (9), Unassigned (0)

...In The Glad Hand a wealthy, communist-hating tycoon named Ritsaat leads a motley gang of explorers through the Bermuda triangle – and the space-time continuum – in pursuit of the antichrist, whom he hopes to lure out into the open...

Methuen Drama, 2000

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (4), Female (2), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...Max Stafford-Clark of the Royal Court Theatre suggested that Wilson write an ‘American’ play and the result was The Grass Widow, a darkly comedic tale of four strangers who assemble to divide the estate of their mutual and mysteriously...

Methuen Drama, 1999

Contemporary Dramatists

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Roles: Total (6), Female (2), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Set in South Africa in the 1980s, this satirical comedy tackles the evils of apartheid – envisioned by Wilson as a termite viciously eating away at the structure of society. Borrowing its title from a book by South African naturalist Eugene...

Methuen Drama, 2000

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 3, Scenes: 2, Roles: Total (29), Female (12), Male (17), Unassigned (0)

...‘Every age has its own vampires . . .’ – Snoo Wilson Vampire is a tour de force of theatre which takes us through 150 years of British history. Chronicling the movement from countryside to city...