LAURENCE WILSON
| Nationality: | British |
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Plays by Laurence Wilson
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: | 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 | 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. | ||||