Playwright whose anarchic works were filled with vividly imagined characters
Snoo Wilson, who has died suddenly aged 64, was in the vanguard of the young playwrights revolutionising British theatre in the two decades after 1968, but Snoo was a very different kettle of fish from the others. While David Edgar, Howard Brenton and David Hare were often overtly political, Snoo was a Marxist "tendance Groucho"; more subtly subversive and humorous. Sometimes the surface frivolity of his work made people think he wasn't serious, but he was always trying to mine under the surface of things, to allow the subconscious to drive his imagination. Snoo used fiercely imagined characters in comic and often savage works that nevertheless, in the best plays, demonstrated an insouciant knowledge of dramatic structure. He was not a believer in naturalism.
Throughout his career Snoo refused to accept that mere reality was all there was – if so, it was...
Snoo Wilson, who has died suddenly aged 64, was in the vanguard of the young playwrights revolutionising British theatre in the two decades after 1968, but Snoo was a very different kettle of fish from the others. While David Edgar, Howard Brenton and David Hare were often overtly political, Snoo was a Marxist "tendance Groucho"; more subtly subversive and humorous. Sometimes the surface frivolity of his work made people think he wasn't serious, but he was always trying to mine under the surface of things, to allow the subconscious to drive his imagination. Snoo used fiercely imagined characters in comic and often savage works that nevertheless, in the best plays, demonstrated an insouciant knowledge of dramatic structure. He was not a believer in naturalism.
Throughout his career Snoo refused to accept that mere reality was all there was – if so, it was...
- 7/5/2013
- by Dusty Hughes
- The Guardian - Film News
Medea, Glasgow
It's been a good year for playwright and director Mike Bartlett. Love, Love, Love played at the Royal Court and his adaptation of Chariots Of Fire is currently at the Gielgud Theatre in the West End (to 10 Nov). This latest play, which he also directs, is something very different: Euripides's tale of a woman scorned who takes her revenge on her ex-husband in the most appalling way is one of the greatest and most enduring of Greek tragedies. Now it's reinvented for the modern age in Bartlett's new version about a 21st-century woman who is unhinged by grief when her husband, for whom she has given up everything, leaves her for another woman. The excellent Rachael Stirling is in the title role in a production for Headlong, which will be touring to major venues across the UK until December.
Citizens, Thu to 13 Oct
Lyn Gardner
Kanjoos: The Miser,...
It's been a good year for playwright and director Mike Bartlett. Love, Love, Love played at the Royal Court and his adaptation of Chariots Of Fire is currently at the Gielgud Theatre in the West End (to 10 Nov). This latest play, which he also directs, is something very different: Euripides's tale of a woman scorned who takes her revenge on her ex-husband in the most appalling way is one of the greatest and most enduring of Greek tragedies. Now it's reinvented for the modern age in Bartlett's new version about a 21st-century woman who is unhinged by grief when her husband, for whom she has given up everything, leaves her for another woman. The excellent Rachael Stirling is in the title role in a production for Headlong, which will be touring to major venues across the UK until December.
Citizens, Thu to 13 Oct
Lyn Gardner
Kanjoos: The Miser,...
- 9/21/2012
- by Judith Mackrell, Mark Cook, Lyn Gardner
- The Guardian - Film News
La-La Land Records has released one of the classic horror scores of the 1980s on a new limited edition CD: Child’s Play, composed by Joe Renzetti. The aggressive, hard-hitting percussion-dominated score for the 1988 film directed by Tom Holland, is presented in remastered and extended format, with bonus tracks including ‘The Chucky Song’ which was performed by Simon Stokes but not used in the film. The CD is limited to ...
- 10/28/2009
- by Mikael Carlsson
- MovieScore Magazine
La-La Land Records passed on info and cover art from two upcoming limited-edition soundtrack CDs for a pair of beloved horror films: Fred Dekker’s Night Of The Creeps (scored by Barry DeVorzon) and Tom Holland’s Child’S Play (music by Joe Renzetti). Burbank-area fans will have the chance to get both these discs signed, thanks to a special event at horror bookstore Dark Delicacies (4213 West Burbank Boulevard).
The Creeps soundtrack, limited to 2,000 units, includes 25 pieces of music, including 21 score tracks and four vintage songs, plus an audio interview with DeVorzon, for a total running time of 71 minutes, 26 seconds. Here are the details:
1. Main Title (3:32)
2. The Axe Man Cometh (1:15)
3. I’m Your Bud (:37)
4. Cylo Lab/It’s Alive (2:42)
5. Thrill Me’s Dream (:53)
6. Cindy’s Scream (3:43)
7. Done With an Axe (:33)
8. Screaming Like Banshees (1:23)
9. Zombie Cat/Zombie (:27)
10. The Bathroom Stall (2:38)
11. Will You Go With Me?...
The Creeps soundtrack, limited to 2,000 units, includes 25 pieces of music, including 21 score tracks and four vintage songs, plus an audio interview with DeVorzon, for a total running time of 71 minutes, 26 seconds. Here are the details:
1. Main Title (3:32)
2. The Axe Man Cometh (1:15)
3. I’m Your Bud (:37)
4. Cylo Lab/It’s Alive (2:42)
5. Thrill Me’s Dream (:53)
6. Cindy’s Scream (3:43)
7. Done With an Axe (:33)
8. Screaming Like Banshees (1:23)
9. Zombie Cat/Zombie (:27)
10. The Bathroom Stall (2:38)
11. Will You Go With Me?...
- 10/14/2009
- by no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Gingold)
- Fangoria
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