Realism

by Anthony Neilson

A lazy Saturday for Stuart? With interruptions from a radio panel show, a threesome, the Black and White Minstrels, a nagging mother and a mouthy cat - no chance. Luckily, none of them know what he's thinking . . .

Realism is an exquisite, surreal trip inside the mind of one man during an ordinary day. However, it veers off from the commonplace to become a deliriously comic trip inside his wayward imagination. Dreams and daydreams are brought to life to hilarious effect exposing the faultlines between everyday life and the world of the imagination in which fantasies ignore conventions of taste and political correctness.

This is Anthony Neilson's follow-up to his multi award-winning The Wonderful World of Dissocia . The text was published to coincide with its English premiere at the Soho Theatre in June 2011.

Genres: Plays

80 pages, Paperback

First published March 13, 2012

About the author

Anthony Neilson (born 1967) is a Scottish playwright and director. He is known for his collabo rative way of writing and workshopping his plays. Much of his work is characterised by the exploration of sex and violence.

Neilson has been cited as a key figure of In-yer-face theatre, a term used to characterise new plays with a confrontational style and sensibility that emerged in British theatre during the 1990s. He has been credited with coining the phrase "in-your-face theatre" but has rejected the label and instead describes his work as “'experiential' theatre”.

Reviews

[Ruby Shrimpton · Rating 3 out of 5]

There were bits of this I really liked; the presentation of his imagination and dreams, the cat, it being well constructed. However, due to my personal taste, I don't like crudity or too much obscene language and there was a certain scene in here that just made me so uncomfortable... I understand that was the point but it was just too much for me. I can still recognise that it was a good play though.