LAURENCE WILSON
| Nationality: | British |
| Literary Agent: *: | |
| Email: | |
| Website: | n/a |
* If shown, click on the literary agent's name for full contact details and links to all the Playwrights they represent.
Plays by Laurence Wilson
Dark Tayle |
| 1st Produced: | The Junction, Cambridge | 2006 | ||
| Company: | Menagerie | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | Dark Comedy | - | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: In this reversal of Hansel and Gretal, it is ageing parents Harry and Gerri, who are left in the woods to die by their children. Having hardly spoken in fifteen years, this weary couple must face each other, and deal with their past, in order to survive the elements and secure their future. But like all good fairytales a final twist is in the air. | ||||
Gents |
| 1st Produced: | Contact Theatre, Manchester | 2002 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | short play | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Part of a trilogy of short plays called 'Surf's Up'. nominated for Best Play and Best Production, Manchester Evening News Awards. 2002 | ||||
Synopsis: Morris and George drag a concrete block onto the beach and chain themselves to it before waiting for the tide to come and take them to a better place. They have secrets they have kept from one another during their twenty-five years as lovers. Will their confessions leave them to die as strangers or will love prevail? | ||||
Microdots |
| 1st Produced: | Contact Theatre, Manchester | 2002 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | short play | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Part of a trilogy of short plays called 'Surf's Up'. nominated for Best Play and Best Production, Manchester Evening News Awards. 2002 | ||||
Synopsis: Set in 1991 in the stairwell of a block of flats overlooking Crosby Beach, Liverpool. Two burnt out acid casualties try and get the courage up to enter a drug dealers flat with the promise of Microdots inside, but Sharon has a secret she needs to reveal to Leon, and a special test may prove him worthy of their future together. Can Leon overcome his bitterness at his upbringing and find himself or will Sharon see him for what he is, and what will that be? | ||||
Surf's Up |
| 1st Produced: | Contact Theatre, Manchester | 2002 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | short play | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Part of a trilogy of short plays called 'Surf's Up'. nominated for Best Play and Best Production, Manchester Evening News Awards. 2002 | ||||
Synopsis: Peter and Vince appear to be homeless and spend their nights on the beach, into their midst comes Mandy, prostitute and drug addict bent on self destruction. These three unlikely companions discover things about each other that are dark and raw, before Mandy makes her final decision. | ||||
Urban Legend |
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | 2004 | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Dark Comedy | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Urban Legend won the Pearson Award | ||||
Synopsis: Three Generations of men in a Bootle high-rise. Grandad thinks the Lizards are coming. Robbie thinks he can provide for the family. Wayne thinks his music will be his way out, one of them may yet be right. This starky comic story of men without women is the first full-length play by Laurence Wilson, acclaimed as "a brave new voice in British Theatre" Manchester evening News. | ||||
When World's Collide |
| 1st Produced: | Wellsborne Primary School, Norris Green, Liverpool | 2008 | ||
| Company: | NCH | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 11 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: his was a devised play in conjunction with the NCH and a group of primary school girls from Wellsbourne Primary School, in Norris Green, Liverpool. | ||||
Synopsis: A stolen mobile phone leads to a hardworking family is torn apart by a local gang of anti-social youths. Can these two different worlds ever see eye to eye or are they doomed to destroy one another? | ||||