Synopses & Reviews
Imagine Drowning: "A brilliant piece of theatre, Johnson has managed to produce theatre which doesn't so much reflect contemporary issues as turn them into something rich and strange."—Time Out
Hysteria: "One of the most brilliantly original and entertaining new plays I have seen in years: wild, weird and funny, serious, compassionate and shocking, blasphemous and reverential, intellectual and frivolous, a factual fantasy, a demented farce, a black nightmare."—Sunday Times
Dead Funny: "A blazing theatrical event, a single piece of stunning energy and invention, Johnson combines wild laughter with terrible pain. At times you're not sure whether the tears running down your cheeks are because the piece is so funny or because it is so sad."
—Daily Telegraph
"Terry Johnson is a writer of cracking acting parts, and one of the critically cherished few who can build characters and action from a thematic starting point."—Independent on Sunday
Review
"Terry Johnson is that rare creature: a moralist with wit. He writes with responsible gaiety"—Guardian
Review
"Terry Johnson is that rare creature: a moralist with wit. He writes with responsible gaiety"Guardian
Synopsis
Terry Johnson's most recent plays collected in a second volume and introduced by the author
This second volume of Johnson's collected plays includes Hysteria, in which one of Freud's earliest "cases" returns to haunt the psychoanalyst but finds Salvador Dali hiding in the cupboard; Dead Funny, a comedy about Benny Hill, impotence, sex therapy and the English sense of humour - Eleanor wants what Richard won't give her, Richard wants to be left in peace, Benny would rather rest in peace, but for tonight, at least, his fans won't let him; Imagine Drowning in which a journalist disappears while covering a protest at Sellafield - when his wife sets out to find him two weeks later, she stays at the same guesthouse and encounters the same bizarre collection of characters including the wife of a mass murderer, an ex-astronaut beach bum and a wheel-chair bound activist.
About the Author
Terry Johnson is the author and director of many plays, including Dead Funny, Hysteria, and Hitchcock Blonde. His plays have been performed all over Europe and the United States, and have won him many awards.
Table of Contents
2. Imagine drowning. Hysteria. Dead funny.