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Paul Godfrey is "so good, so nervy and alert with imagination and intelligence" (Sunday Times)
Includes the plays: Inventing a New Colour "Godfrey's appealing first play is, with its ominous signs of disjunction, like a surrealist painting"(Guardian), Once in a While the Odd Thing Happens "A fictional-biographical account of Benjamin Britten…lyrical, poetic prose, sinuous, swift, eloquent and dramatic" (Sunday Times), A Bucket of Eels "Danger gives Paul Godfrey's wonderful play its drama. Six young people enter a Freudian forest of their own imaginings" (Financial Times), The Blue Ball "An enquiry into the magic of space exploration….a rather interesting, idiosyncratic and well written play" (Observer) is an imaginative investigation of the experience of Space researched by the playwright among the astronauts themselves. This ambitious play questions the politics of a culture in which the wondrous is rendered mundane and what seems commonplace is rendered absurd.
The Blue Ball was commissioned by the Royal National Theatre and received its première at the Cottesloe Theatre in 1995.
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Christian Karanicolas
reviewed Godfrey Plays: 1: Inventing a New Colour, A Bucket of Eels, Once in a While the Odd Thing Happens, and The Blue Ball, Vol. 1 on January 25, 2012
Godfrey Plays: 1: Inventing a New Colour, A Bucket of Eels, Once in a While the Odd Thing Happens, and The Blue Ball, Vol. 1
Helen Oyeyemi is better known as a novelist than a playwright, something reflected in this short collection of two plays. They're more short stories than plays, really: the dialogue is interspersed with long, elaborate stage directions that read like chunks of narration.
Juniper breaks free, and the lights come on. She is barefoot and messy-haired, dragging the blanket around her and blinking confusedly at the light. Aleph moves towards her and she retreats, but he only pulls the blanket off her so she's standing in her nightie.
There are far too many passages like this. It gives the impression of a playwright not confident enough in her dialogue to let it stand alone. That being said, the two plays are well worth reading with their unsettling plots and beautiful writing.
Both stories involve characters who are trapped. The first, a fantasy, explores the concept of being trapped in a very literal way ' Juniper's Whitening involves three characters confined to a house, unable to escape even through murder. It's a violent story of repressed memories and revenge, set in what may or may not be hell.
The first play is followed by Victimese, a more realist sketch which seems at first to be less bleak in tone than Juniper's Whitening. A university student with severe depression refuses to leave her bedroom; her friends and sister gather to try and help. The situation quickly escalates into existential crisis and painfully personal confessions. It's an unhappy story, but there's a spark of magic in it.
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