HELEN ARNEY   


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Plays by Helen Arney

HELEN ARNEY
8 1/2 Songs About Love (and other myths).
1st Produced:
Aug 2009
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One act
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Female
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written by Rosie Wilby and Helen Arney
Synopsis:
Arney, on the other hand, takes the musical approach. Her titular eight-and-a-half songs are not so much songs as tuneful poems accompanied by looping keyboard, ukulele or miniature accordion phrases: they rhyme only when it suits her and tend to fizzle without recognisable cadences (her "Thank you"s are necessary applause cues for an audience unsure whether or not the song is over). That said, they all feature at least one killer line, and Arney's delivery - at once irreverent and heartfelt - makes it difficult (if not downright curmudgeonly) not to warm to her.
- Matt Boothman, British Theatre Guide
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HELEN ARNEY
Science of Sex, The
1st Produced:
Aug 2009
Company:
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1st Published:
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ISBN/ASIN
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To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page
Genre:
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One act
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
written by Rosie Wilby and Helen Arney
Synopsis:
Dressed in a lab coat and goggles, Wilby approaches the topic with a scientific eye, discussing the biology of attraction with the help of some layperson-accessible graphs and formulae. While the science isn't especially funny, it is at least interesting, and provides Wilby with an original angle from which to tackle one of stand-up's best-loved subjects: the differences between men and women (and, more originally still, the differences between straight, gay and lesbian couples).
- Matt Boothman, British Theatre Guide
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