Making Scenes: A Bucket of Eels; The Wild At Heart Club; The Minotaur; The Bedbug (Play Anthologies)

Godfrey, Paul; McLeod, Jenny; Maloney, Jan; Wilson, Snoo

ISBN 10: 0413698505 / ISBN 13: 9780413698506

Published by Methuen Drama, 2006

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Making Scenes: A Bucket of Eels; The Wild At Heart Club; The Minotaur; The Bedbug (Play Anthologies)
• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0413698505
• ISBN 13: 9780413698506
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Four short plays for young actors



The Blue Ball is an imaginative investigation of the experience of Space researched by the playwright among the astronauts themselves. This ambitious play questions the politics of a culture in which the wondrous is rendered mundane and what' commonplace is rendered absurd.Each play includes Production Notes, dealing with setting and staging, costume, lighting and casting. Also included are a set of questions and exercises for workshop classes.

About the Author

Snoo Wilson (1948-2013) was born in Reading, studied at the University of East Anglia and was a founding director of the Portable Theatre, Brighton and London. During his career, Wilson was script editor for the Play for Today series, BBC TV, dramaturg for the RSC, director of the Scarab Theatre and also taught film scriptwriting at the National Film School. In 1980 he was awarded a US/UK Bicentennial Fellowship and worked at Santa Cruz University and with the New York Theatre Studio in New York. In 1989 Wilson was Associate Professor, lecturing in play writing, at University College San Diego. With a writing career from the 1960s, Wilson's place as an important and distinguished playwright was confirmed in his many award-winning plays both in Britain and across America. He received the John Whiting Award in 1978 for The Glad Hand, the San Diego Theater Circle award in 1988 for 80 Days and the Eileen Anderson/Central Broadcasting Premiere Award for Best Night Out for HRH. Wilson wrote films, libretti, radio plays and two novels. His libretti include an acclaimed adaptation of Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld for the English National Opera and the book for 80 Days at the La Jolla Playhouse in California.