Owen Plays: 1: Crazy Gary's Mobile Disco; The Shadow of a Boy; The Drowned World; Cancer Time; Fags

Owen Plays: 1: Crazy Gary's Mobile Disco; The Shadow of a Boy; The Drowned World; Cancer Time; Fags

by Gary Owen
Owen Plays: 1: Crazy Gary's Mobile Disco; The Shadow of a Boy; The Drowned World; Cancer Time; Fags

Owen Plays: 1: Crazy Gary's Mobile Disco; The Shadow of a Boy; The Drowned World; Cancer Time; Fags

by Gary Owen

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Overview

First collection of seminal plays by one of Wales' most talented writers



Crazy Gary's Mobile Disco: his first work for the stage, published in February 2001 to tie-in with the production by Paines Plough and Sgript Cymru. Saturday night, small town Wales, one pub, one party and three lads stuck with their school reputations and desperate to get the hell out.

The Shadow of a Boy: premiered at the Royal National Theatre in June 2002; joint winner of the George Devine award and winner of the Meyer Whitworth Award. The scheduled destruction of Earth alarms eleven-year-old Luke almost as much as starting at the comp.

The Drowned World: premiered at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, August 2002; won a Fringe First at the Edinburgh Festival and was joint winner of the 2003 Pearson Best Play Award. A vicious tale of love, revolt and beauty in a world where surfaces matter more than love and kinship.

Cancer Time: a new work that premiers at the Latchmere Theatre, London, September 2004. A small city, a long way from the action. Two girls are killing time in a call centre. They are waiting for their lives to start. For something to happen. For a piece of the action to come to them. Today, they are going to get their wish.

Fags: a brand new short work, regarded as a companion piece to Cancer Time.The volume is introduced by Vicky Featherstone of Paines Plough, and the new first director of Scotland's National Theatre.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780413774811
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 02/10/2005
Series: Contemporary Dramatists
Pages: 320
Product dimensions: 5.06(w) x 7.81(h) x 0.65(d)

About the Author

Gary Owen is the winner of the George Devine, Meyer Whitworth and Pearson Best Play Awards. His other plays include Crazy Gary's Mobile Disco, The Shadow of a Boy, The Drowned World, Mrs Reynolds and the Ruffian and Love Steals Us From Loneliness. With Helen Raynor he was writer and creator of the BBC Wales series Baker Boys. His most recent theatre work includes Perfect Match for Watford Palace Theatre, where he is a creative associate, and Ring Ring, a new version of La Ronde for the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. In June 2015 he made his Royal Court debut with Violence and Son, directed by Hamish Pirie. Iphigenia in Splott for Sherman Cymru won Best New Play at the UK Theatre Awards 2015.

Table of Contents

Crazy Gary's Mobile Disco; The Shadow of a Boy; The Drowned World; Cancer Time; Fags
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