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Preview by Paul Nelson
PATRICK Wilde, acclaimed writer of This Life and Get
Real, is to direct the London premiere of his new black comedy
You Couldn't Make it Up, which closely scrutinises men
and the way they screw up the world.
A smash hit at the 2002 Edinburgh Festival, the play is the follow-up
to Wilde's West End hit, What's Wrong With Angry?, and
the multi-award winning movie version, Get Real.
Kevin is a handsome young man who is low of self-esteem. He wants
to be a singer, but in the meantime, he has to try to pay the
rent - but how?
John is a model but he wants to be an actor. He'll do anything
to be famous - well almost, anything.
He needs help from someone - but who? Philip is a scriptwriter.
All his life he has fought for gay rights. Now he's blocked and
can't write a thing. The situation gets complicated at a reunion
of old school friends when a terrible secret is revealed. Philip
has now found something to write about again - but dare he do
it?
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You Couldn't Make it Up turns the spotlight on the power-crazed
world of the entertainment industry, revealing how some TV and
movie executives dictate what we should watch, and consequently
the way we view the world.
Amidst all this the battle for gay rights goes on …
Patrick Wilde began his writing career with the play What's
Wrong With Angry? as well as the screenplay for the film version.
His TV credits include This Life, Casualty, Holby City, Sunburn,
Monarch of the Glen, Peak Practice and As If.
His ground-breaking storylines for gay characters in As If
led Channel 4 to receive more than 400 complaints, although
the particular episode concerned showed a massage rather than
the explicit sex scene viewers imagined they'd seen.
He is currently working on a new series of As If, to be
transmitted in the summer.
He has been commissioned to write the screenplay of Paul Monette's
award winning autobiography, Becoming a Man.
You Couldn't Make It Up, a fantasy by Patrick Wilde, Directed
by the author, with Music by Stephen Butler and Julian Butler,
and Lyrics by Julian Butler. Presented by The Wild Justice Company
at The New End Theatre, 27 New End, Hampstead NW3 from Tuesday,
May 20 to Saturday, June 21 Tuesday to Sunday at 8pm. Tickets
020 7794 0022
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