ROD WOODEN   


Rod Wooden
   Nationality:
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Plays by Rod Wooden

ROD WOODEN
Anti/Gone
1st Produced:
1992
Company:
RSC Education Department
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
Play for young actors
-
Parts:
Male
at least 3
Female
at least 9
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: A wholly modern exploration of the Antigone myth, originally written for the RSC Education Department as part of the Antigones Project. To be performed by young actors aged between 12 and 18.
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ROD WOODEN
Chorus
1st Produced:
Newcastle Playhouse
1999
Company:
Northern Stage (workshop)
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
As many as possible
Female
One essential, but ideally more
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: a version of MEDEA MEDIA (see below), stripped to its chorus scenes only. An experimental piece for a large ensemble.
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ROD WOODEN
Diamond
1st Produced:
National Film School, London
1996
Company:
National Film School (workshop)
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
2 act
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: "an elliptical collage of short scenes charting the games of three children, Robert, David, and Lizzie, and their interaction with their respective mothers . . . Each of the children enjoys a particular status with Lizzie being relegated to the bottom of the pile. Her social indoctrination (the dolls she plays with, the supporting and nurturing role she is expected to perfom to the demandingly active boys) is meticulously demonstrated . . . The 1950's childhood world created by DIAMOND is both delicate and menacing . . . "(from 'Savagery and Fine Words: an introduction to the plays of Rod Wooden', an essay by Maria M. Delgado in Contemporary Theatre Review Volume 5 Parts 3 & 4 (1996)).
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ROD WOODEN
High Brave Boy
1st Produced:
1990
Company:
Northern Stage
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
2
Parts Other:
one male voice (unseen)
Notes: -
Synopsis: ". . . a tale of two young sisters' induction into the adult world following the death of their mother . . . As the two girls indulge in role play, enacting the feuds they have witnessed between their parents, a clear and frightening comment is offered on a world where children function as barter, as territory over which their parents' battles are waged, and where their status as products of their parents' flawed value system is clearly discernible." From Maria M. Delgado: 'Savagery and Fine Words: an introduction to the plays of Rod Wooden' in Contemporary Theatre Review Vol 5 Parts 3 & 4 (1996).
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ROD WOODEN
Leningrad Siege, The
1st Produced:
2006
Company:
Out of the Box Productions
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
-
Translation
Parts:
Male
-
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Original Playwright - Jose Sanchis Sinisterra. Translated by Catalina Botello and Rod Wooden
Synopsis: A hilarious, moving and surreal story of two women: Natalia and Priscilla are the former mistress and widow of Nestor, a left-wing theatre director who died in mysterious circumstances while rehearsing his new play, THE LENINGRAD SIEGE. For over twenty years they have been living in the abandoned Phantom Playhouse, which is now threatened with demolition. Desperately trying to make sense of the past, these two elderly and eccentric women are determined to keep the red flag flying, while at the same time searching for the lost manuscript . . .
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ROD WOODEN
Leviathan: A Modern Macbeth
1st Produced:
1997
Company:
Colchester Mercury / University of Essex
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
Two act epic play
-
Parts:
Male
12+
Female
10+
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: an examination of the effects of colonialism through three juxtaposed stories, one taking place at the time of Cromwell's invasion of Ireland in 1649, another in a Latin American country of the present day which has leased out its oil reserves to a British multinational, and the third in modern London, with Shakespeare's Macbeth reappearing as a recently released Irish bomber. Has been rewritten since the workshop production in 1997 and now runs for over five hours.
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ROD WOODEN
Medea Media
1st Produced:
1993
Company:
Northern Stage
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
2 act
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3/4
Female
3
Parts Other:
one of the females is a singer
Notes: -
Synopsis: the Greek singer Medea arrives in England with her boyfriend Jason, a superstar footballer who has just signed for a famous club in the North East after years of playing abroad. Their lives seem perfect, until Meda wakes one morning to find that Jason has left her for the daughter of the chairman of the club . . . A new and highly satirical take on the Euripides story, written in modern verse.
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ROD WOODEN
Moby Dick
1st Produced:
1993
Company:
RSC
1st Published:
Harwood Academic Publishers
1996
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
9
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: from book by Herman Melville
Synopsis: A poetic modern version of Captain Ahab's doomed search for the White Whale, performed by an all-male cast and originally directed for the RSC by Gerry Mulgrew of Communicado Theatre Co. Played at Stratford and Newcastle before transferring to The Pit (Barbican, London) in 1994.
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ROD WOODEN
One Hundred Feet
1st Produced:
workshop at Darlington Arts Centre
1993
Company:
Durham Theatre Company
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
3
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: the play poses the question: what would have happened if the flash of lightning had not lit up the dark stair tower of the House of Shaws at the beginning of R.L. Stevenson's novel KIDNAPPED, thereby showing David Balfour that he was climbing to his death . . . Characters include David Balfour, Alan Breck, and Ebenezer from KIDNAPPED, Blind Pew and Ben Gunn from TREASURE ISLAND, plus the author himself, R.L. Stevenson. Surreal, comic, tragic, and full of surprises.
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ROD WOODEN
Smoke
1st Produced:
1993
Company:
Royal Exchange Theatre Company
1st Published:
Harwood Academic Publishers
1996
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Genre:
Two act epic play
-
Parts:
Male
7
Female
5
Parts Other:
at least one actor must be a musician
Notes: -
Synopsis: A historical tragedy using poetry and song, centred around Kett's Rebellion in Norfolk in 1549 - "a time of bitterness, riches, and great hunger." Meral Taygun, who directed the play in Amsterdam, has commented: "SMOKE is not a comfortable play with a natural flow and a naturalistic setting . . . It is a testimony in fragments . . . behind the realism there is an amazing poetic musicality . . . I can imagine the play in any language, on any stage of the world."
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ROD WOODEN
Sorry Island
1st Produced:
workshop at Darlington Arts Centre
1995
Company:
Durham Theatre Company
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
4+ m/f
Notes: -
Synopsis: The history of British colonialism in around thirty five minutes, together with its causes and its repercussions . . . An early exploration of the ideas which were later examined in greater depth in LEVIATHAN (see above).
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ROD WOODEN
State Of Coma
1st Produced:
2000
Company:
Royal Court International Summer School.
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
-
Translation
Parts:
Male
6
Female
5
Parts Other:
3 musicians; doubling possible
Notes: Original Playwright - Ana Maria Vallejo. Note: the author has since rewritten this play under the new title of MAGNOLIA PERDIDA EN SUEÑOS (MAGNOLIA LOST IN DREAMS).
Synopsis: At times comic but ultimately tragic, this is a poetic drama set in Medellin, Colombia in 1990, at the height of a war between rival gangs. It centres around a family whose mother has been knocked down in a street accident. While she lies in a coma, their lives gradually slide into crisis.
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ROD WOODEN
Wah wah wah wah, wah wah wah
1st Produced:
1988
Company:
Paines Plough (workshop)
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
Two act play for young actors
-
Parts:
Male
at least 8
Female
at least 4
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: a struggle for power between five young inmates of a youth custody centre, ruled over by a sadistic warder.
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ROD WOODEN
Woyzeck
1st Produced:
1990
Company:
Northern Stage
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
Translation / adaption
-
Parts:
Male
7
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Original Playwright - Georg Buchner
Synopsis: a new version of Buchner's classic play.
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ROD WOODEN
Your Home In The West
1st Produced:
1991
Company:
Royal Exchange Theatre
1st Published:
1991
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Genre:
2 act
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
4
Parts Other:
one of the male actors is a singer/guitarist
Notes: won the 1990 Mobil International Playwriting Competition and the 1992 John Whiting Award
Synopsis: A pulsating tragi-comic drama set in a run-down Newcastle housing estate, where Jean, divorced from the violent, foul-mouthed Micky, rules over a household that teeters on the edge of disaster every time her ex-husband bursts through the front door. Premiered at Manchester Royal Exchange in 1991 and subsequently produced by other leading theatre companies both in the UK and abroad, it is an emotional roller-coaster of a play that continues to shock audiences and cause controversy wherever it is performed.
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