Crazy Gary's Mobile Disco
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Crazy Gary's Mobile Disco is a play by Gary Owen that was first presented by Paines Plough and Sgript Cymru in Cardiff, Wales, in 2001,{{cite web |title=Crazy Gary's Mobile Disco |url=https://www.felix-bloch-erben.de/index.php5/pid/1883/Action/showPlay/fbe/c5a7dbd00d1945057764cc9196417db8/ |website=Felix Bloch Erben |access-date=22 November 2023 |language=de}} after which it won the first Theatre in Wales Award for Best New Play.{{cite web|url=https://www.playbill.com/article/ghost-city-is-a-day-in-the-life-of-welsh-town-making-us-debut-in-nyc-june-1-13-com-119984 |title=Ghost City Is a Day in the Life of Welsh Town, Making U.S. Debut in NYC June 1-13|last=Jones|first=Kenneth|date=26 May 2004|publisher=Playbill|accessdate=2009-08-03}} The play is set on a Thursday night in a small town in Wales and focuses on three young men in their mid-twenties burdened by their school reputations of the gimp, the geek and the bully.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2001/mar/15/theatre.artsfeatures1|title=Welsh theatre's blazing new talent|last=Gardner|first=Lyn |authorlink=Lyn Gardner|date=15 March 2001|newspaper=The Guardian |location=London |accessdate=2009-08-03}} The play takes the format of three monologues and the tagline for the play is "their dream is to get the hell out".
The script was published by Bloomsbury in 2001, who republished it 2005 in a collection of Owen's plays.{{cite web |title=Crazy Gary's Mobile Disco |url=https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/crazy-garys-mobile-disco-9780413768506/ |website=Bloomsbury |access-date=21 November 2023}}{{cite web |title=Owen Plays: I |url=https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/owen-plays-1-9780413774811/ |website=Bloomsbury |access-date=21 November 2023}}
Dramatis personae
- Gary: a hate-fuelled arsehole who dobs enemies into Crimewatch for fun.
- Matthew D Melody: charismatically naïve and thinks Frank Sinatra can save the world.
- Russell Markham: imploding from a life full of repressed anger, which is causing everything from impotence to fear of cancer.
Selected productions
- 2001 – Premiere at Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, followed by performances at the Lyric Studio, London, and a tour of English theatres.
- 2003 – Staatsschauspiel Dresden, Germany, in a German translation by Peter Torberg
- 2006 – Inis Nua theater, Philadelphia, USA{{cite web |title=Crazy Gary's Mobile Disco |url=https://inisnuatheatre.org/show/crazy-garys-mobile-disco |website=Inis Nua |access-date=22 November 2023}}
- 2011 – Tron Theatre, Glasgow, and Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh{{cite news |title=Theatre reviews: Crazy Gary's Mobile Disco / At-Swim-Two-Birds / I Heart Maths |url=https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/theatre-reviews-crazy-garys-mobile-disco-at-swim-two-birds-i-heart-maths-1675813 |work=The Scotsman |date=25 May 2011}}{{cite news |title=Crazy Gary's Mobile Disco, Tron Theatre, Glasgow |url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/arts_ents/13030577.crazy-garys-mobile-disco-tron-theatre-glasgow/ |work=The Herald |date=26 May 2011 |location=Glasgow}}
- 2014 – Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, followed by a tour of other theatres in Wales{{cite news |last1=Price |first1=Karen |title=Disco Craze Returns for a New Run |url=https://www.pressreader.com/uk/western-mail/20140920/283184376643405 |work=Western Mail |date=20 September 2014}}{{cite web |last1=Bainbridge |first1=Julie |title=Theatre - Crazy Gary's Mobile Disco |url=https://www.walesartsreview.org/crazy-garys-mobile-disco/ |website=Wales Arts Review |date=25 September 2014}}
References
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External links
- {{in lang|en}} [http://www.theatre-wales.co.uk/plays/review_archive.asp?playname=Crazy%20Gary's%20Mobile%20Disco&company=Sgript%20Cymru reviews at 'Theatre in Wales']
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