Snoo Wilson

Moonshine

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Produktbeschreibung

A surreal fantasy plunging Sir Arthur Conan Doyle into a perilous intergalactic conflict Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - the author, spiritualist and creator of the great rationalist detective, Sherlock Homes - is in search of home-grown fairies in the English village of Cottingley. Suddenly he is catapulted into another world and while impending collision with the meteorite Caledonia threatens catastrophe, he embarks on a fantastic journey with Abraxas 365, the god of gods, to meet the malevolent media magnate Moloch and his raving teenage daughters. "Weird and wonderful happenings in Plymouth as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is discovered in search of fairies..." (Guardian)

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Oktober 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 196mm x 128mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 9g
• ISBN-13: 9780413745101
• ISBN-10: 0413745104
• Artikelnr.: 37715189

Autorenporträt

SNOO WILSON was one of a handful of playwrights who reinvented British theatre in the 1970s and 80s. Together with Howard Brenton, David Hare and Tony Bicât he founded Portable Theatre Company, which presented his early work, including the still-performed Pignight. His other plays include The Pleasure Principe, The Glad Hand (Royal Court), The Soul of a White Ant, Vampire, The Number of the Beast, More Light, Darwin's Flood (Bush Theatre), The Beast (RSC), Orpheus in the Underworld (ENO), Bedbug, a musical (with Gary Kemp & Guy Pratt) based on Mayakovsky's 1929 satire (NT Connections 1995, 2016), and Reclining Nude with Black Stockings (Arcola Theatre). Following his sudden death in 2013, the many obituaries honouring both the man and the playwright confirmed that, at their exuberant, inventive and utterly original best, Snoo's plays deserve their place in the country's history of post-war playwrighting. "He encouraged audiences to go on a rollercoaster ride into the beyond, albeit with engaging and recognisable characters. It was not whimsy. He was a one-off, quite unlike any other dramatist." Dusty Hughes, Guardian. An archive of Snoo's work will soon be available at the University of East Anglia. His plays are published by Methuen Drama and represented by Micheline Steinberg Associates [e-mail]