Neilson Plays

In the 1990s playwright Anthony Neilson garnered a reputation for hard-hitting morally disturbing plays that saw him labelled as one of the 'In Yer Face' dramatists who emerged from that decade.<br/><br/>This second volume of plays showcases the comic surreal and gloriously off-kilter side of his more recent work. <i><b>Edward Gant's Amazing Feats of Loneliness! </b></i>(Theatre Royal Plymouth 2002)<b><i> </i></b>mixes Victorian melodrama with a catalogue of grotesque comic tales; <b><i>The Lying Kind </i></b>(Royal Court 2002) a black farce set at Christmas involving two hapless policeman who must break news of tragedy to an elderly couple 'often reduced much of the audience to tears of laughter' (<i>Financial Times</i>). Produced originally for the 2004 Edinburgh International Festival <b><i>The Wonderful World of Dissocia </i></b>wowed critics and audiences alike. A hugely original play inspired by <i>Alice in Wonderland</i> it is both magical and moving and <b>confirmed Neilson as one of the major voices in contemporary British Theatre</b>. <i><b>Realism </b></i>premiered at the Edinburgh International Festival in 2006. It follows the life of one man during an ordinary day but veers off to become a deliriously surreal trip inside his wayward imagination. It was described by the <i>Guardian </i>as a 'bold and utterly distinctive all-singing all-dancing show <b>like nothing else you'll ever see</b>'. <br/>