Book description
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 premiere at
the Cottesloe Theatre in 1995.
