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SIMON WU |
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Nationality: Hong Kong Email: n/a Website: Click here to visit |
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Plays by Simon Wu |
Just The Two Of Us | ||
| 1st Produced: | Inn On The Green, Nottinghill Gate | 2010 | ||||
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 | #124120 | |||
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Genre: | Monologue play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Oikos | ||
| 1st Produced: | 26 Aug 2010 | |||||
Company: | Jellyfish Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #118953 | |||
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Notes: | Oikos (pronounced ee-kos) is the root word of economy and ecology. Embracing these principles, we have embarked on an exciting theatre project: a unique mix of public-made art, architecture and performance that explores how a new sustainable society can flourish in a world altered by climate change. This summer, minutes from the South Bank in the heart of London, award-winning Berlin-based architects Köbberling and Kaltwasser will work alongside volunteers to create The Jellyfish Theatre, the UK's first fully-functioning theatre made entirely from recycled and reclaimed materials. Focussing on energy-efficiency, co-operation and human-scale construction, The Jellyfish Theatre was showcased as part of the London Festival of Architecture in July and opens to the public in August. With climate change already impacting on our lives, The Red Room has commissioned leading playwrights, Kay Adshead and Simon Wu, to examine ways our society may adapt for survival in two urgent and inspiring plays written specially to be performed in this unique venue in September. This is a ground-breaking project, full of optimism and fun, which we hope will empower people to realise new possibilities in how we might live in the future. We invite local residents, environmentalists, theatregoers and anyone who loves our city to join us: to watch the build, visit rehearsals, participate in workshops and to be entertained in our theatre. | |||||
| On the surface Wu's play is indeed a family drama. Salil, a poor Indian boy living beside the Ganges loses his family in a flood and is adopted by a relation married to an English man. The play starts years later when Salil is a successful City of London financier setting up a multi-million pound deal. While his mind is on his female assistant, with whom he may already be having an affair, his wife Assana is out buying him a birthday present. Meanwhile in his memory we shift back into his childhood where he interrupts an elaborate game his sister is playing. When both Salil and Assana return to their elegant Georgian home beside the Thames it is raining heavily, there are flood warnings out and the river is beginning to rise. Their daughter Lily is out with university friends and they are worried about her until she turns up drenched, probably high on substances and urging them to get out before the river cuts them off. | |||||
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Pilgrimage Of The Heart, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
Company: | Corax Productions | |||||
| 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 | #73445 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Based On Story By Eileen Zhang | |||||
Synopsis: | examines an Electra complex reaching dangerous maturity in a pre-war Shanghai destined for communism. | |||||
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Two Of Us | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
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 | #99753 | |||
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Genre: | Short Play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | part of Typhoon 6 | |||||
Synopsis: | in effect a 40-minute monologue, performed here by Ashley Alyman. It uses the recording of a video message as a device to rationalise direct address to the audience by a young man who says he is Sam, a twin whose brother Eric is so identical that no one can tell which is which. Their links are very close and there is a strong bond between them. They sometimes pretend to be the other, even sharing a girlfriend without the girl realising she is sleeping with a different brother. But such strong love has its opposite. In any close and passionate relationship frustration can make the much loved the target on which to release hate and vent jealousy and so it is with these two twins. | |||||
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Wolf In The House | ||
| 1st Produced: | Gate Theatre, London | - - - | ||||
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 | #124121 | |||
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