Wolfsong
The first time they ran the Manchester Student Playwright Competition, I was a notable second place with this play, Wolfsong. The play that won was the rather more grittily realistic Life's A Gatecrash, which did exceptionally well.
Wolfsong
first started getting written as my A Level exam piece, when Hello? won its award.Still,
Wolfsong is my favourite play I've ever written.
It was - loosely - based
on Angela Carter's short stories The Company of Wolves and The Werewolf from
The Bloody Chamber and Other StoriesYou
don't have to buy it from me, but do get a copy of this book.. The first adaptation of
these stories I ever did was for my Theatre Studies exam, where I did a
five minute piece based on them.
My examiner didn't give me full marks because he queried the fact that really the actress involved should've stripped naked. Me, I just wanted to have the entire college bow down to me because I'd got such a beautiful woman to strip to her underwear in my presence, just because I could string a bit of dialogue together - but at least my parents were relieved that a girl finally came to visit me in my room (for the rehearsals).
Wolfsong
as a play was deeply indebted to the work of ComplicitéThis
troupe are just amazing. See them. See them. SEE THEM!, whose The
Three Lives of Lucie CabrolI
saw this in Leicester as part of my A Levels. How cool is that? I'd seen before I started the first
draft. It's very nearly the closest thing to the plays I want to write,
combining the strange with the meaningful in a physical way. One day, one
day . . .