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MATTHEW WILSON |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Matthew Wilson is a playwright, actor, and director whose plays In the Wreckage, Drowning of Thirst, and Radio Hysteriahave all been produced in Chicago's thriving storefront theatre scene. His work "has an awful lot in common with great pop music, revealing essential human truths in a compact, catchy way" (Nick Green, Chicago Reader) and "reverberates with deep longing and anxiety" (Justin Hayford, Chicago Tribune). Directing credits include productions of The Shawl, No One Will Be Immune, Under Observation, and The New World Order.For eighteen months he wrote and performed weekly monologues and sketches for Chicago community radio station WZRD. Stage acting credits include Smokers (Great Beast Theatre), Two Doors Down from Tip-Top (Curious Theatre Branch) andSacrilege (Shapeshifters Theatre Co.). His original solo pieces have appeared in Ian's Dog and Pony Show and Something Wicked This Way Comes.
Plays by Matthew Wilson
Big Nothings | ||
| 1st Produced: | Hysteria Productions, Chicago, IL, USA | 2004 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #45948 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Drama, 70-75 min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | flexible | |||||
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Synopsis: | Three short plays dealing with 1 man and 1 woman. A suburban teenager has an emotional discussion with an overly involved teacher; a small-town husband and wife discuss the petty larceny of a family member; and an emergency room patient in a large city receives a mysterious cell phone call for the doctor who is treating him | |||||
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In the Wreckage | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Revue (Burnaby, BC, Canada) | 2003 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #37678 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | 60-75 min Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | 3 males, 2 females (4-5 actors possible: 2-3 males, 2-3 females) | |||||
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Synopsis: | Three short, modern pieces on love and estrangement, designed to be performed together: In The Big Lockout, a woman addresses a very distant lover through three ardent monologues. The title piece,In the Wreckage, involves a mysterious onlooker coaching the victim of a violent car crash through the aftershock. Tearing free from the machinery may kill him; staying put will mean facing the truth. And the woman in Past Tense reenacts a chilling story from her past to a man, seemingly oblivious, who is obsessed with the future. | |||||
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Radio Hysteria | ||
| 1st Produced: | Great Beast Theatre, Chicago, IL, USA | 2001 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #45946 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Drama, 70-80 min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | A radio DJ introduces monologues from various characters around the city. The monologues may be the songs he's playing or may be the radio listeners | |||||
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Triad | ||
| 1st Produced: | Curious Theatre Branch Rhinoceros Festival, Chicago, IL, USA | 2005 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #45949 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Drama, 70-75 min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | A therapist is blackmailed for information on a client who has been disfigured in a knife attack. | |||||
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Ventriloquist Circle, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Dixon Place | 06 Jan 2012 | ||||
Company: | Sister Sylvester | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #135560 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Drama, 70-75 min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Matt Wilson's The Ventriloquist Circle dives into the madcap world of legendary adult-film star, Hugh Cox. After Mr. Cox is found murdered on the set of his latest film, the ensuing investigation devolves into the bastard-child of a 1960's Happening and an episode of Law & Order. The Ventriloquist Circle is an exploration into the internet's democratization of taboo to the point of banalitythe aesthetics of a BDSM conference at a Holiday Inn. The piece is a tumble down the rabbit-hole of a contemporary mind. | |||||
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Wolf Hunt, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Curious Theatre Branch Rhinoceros Festival, Chicago, IL, USA | 2003 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #45947 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Drama, 70-75 min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | A young former drug dealer, fresh out of "white man's prison," searches for his birth family with the help of the officer who arrested him. | |||||
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