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GREEN FINGERS
"An off-beat and often funny account of the gay underworld in Newcastle…Wilcox's dialogue has a sharp, streetwise wit." (Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph)
"In Green Fingers the protagonist is a young corporation gardener accused of joining his lover, a professional burglar in looting the house of one of Newcastle's sugar daddies…Wilcox is more interested in exposing prejudice and exploitation than in the guilt or innocence of any defendant but…manages to conceal any didactic or propagandist aim with consistent skill…"(Benedict Nightingale)
Green Fingers was premiered by the Northern Stage Company with Live Theatre Newcastle-upon-Tyne in February 1990 and was subsequently revived at the King's Head theatre in Islington.
"In Green Fingers the protagonist is a young corporation gardener accused of joining his lover, a professional burglar in looting the house of one of Newcastle's sugar daddies…Wilcox is more interested in exposing prejudice and exploitation than in the guilt or innocence of any defendant but…manages to conceal any didactic or propagandist aim with consistent skill…"(Benedict Nightingale)
Green Fingers was premiered by the Northern Stage Company with Live Theatre Newcastle-upon-Tyne in February 1990 and was subsequently revived at the King's Head theatre in Islington.
96 pages, Paperback
First published April 25, 1991
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About the author
Michael Wilcox
14 booksMichael Wilcox is a British playwright.
He was resident playwright at the Dovecot Arts Centre in Stockton-on-Tees for the 1977 season. In 1980, he was resident playwright at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh. In 2008, he signed a letter against Bush Theatre budget cuts. He was educated at Alleyn Court School, Westcliff-on-Sea; Malvern College in Worcestershire; Borough Road College in Isleworth, London, where he trained to be a teacher; and University College London, where he achieved a BA Honours degree in English Literature.
In the early 70s, Michael Wilcox founded Northern Playwrights Society with dramatist C.P.Taylor to promote the interests of playwrights living in the Northern Arts region. This has evolved into New Writing North, which is one of Britain's most successful regional writers' agencies.
In addition to his theatre writing, Wilcox edited five volumes of "Gay Plays" for Methuen, who also published his autobiographical journal of 1989, "Outlaw in the Hills". His monograph "Benjamin Britten's Operas" was published by Absolute Press in 1997 and was shortlisted by the Royal Philharmonic Society for its music book of the year award.
Wilcox has also worked as opera librettist for John Metcalf's "Tornrak" (Welsh National Opera: 1990) and Eddie McGuire's "Cullercoats Tommy" (Northern Sinfonia and Northern Stage: 1993). For Opera North, he worked with Jeremy Sams on a new libretto for Chabrier's Le roi malgré lui that was first staged at the Edinburgh International Festival as "The Reluctant King" in 1995.
His television dramas include episodes of "Crown Court" and "Cluedo", "Cricket" (BBC TV : Plays for Tomorrow:1981), "Accounts" (C4 : Film on Four:1982), "Lent" (BBC TV : 1985 : Pye and TRICS awards for best script of the year), "Inspector Morse : Last Bus to Woodstock" (1988) and "Doctor Finlay : Winning the Peace" (STV : 1993).
He has also served as a board member for Northern Arts, Northern Stage, NTC Touring Company, and, for some years, was on the Arts Council of England's New Theatre Writing Panel.
He was resident playwright at the Dovecot Arts Centre in Stockton-on-Tees for the 1977 season. In 1980, he was resident playwright at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh. In 2008, he signed a letter against Bush Theatre budget cuts. He was educated at Alleyn Court School, Westcliff-on-Sea; Malvern College in Worcestershire; Borough Road College in Isleworth, London, where he trained to be a teacher; and University College London, where he achieved a BA Honours degree in English Literature.
In the early 70s, Michael Wilcox founded Northern Playwrights Society with dramatist C.P.Taylor to promote the interests of playwrights living in the Northern Arts region. This has evolved into New Writing North, which is one of Britain's most successful regional writers' agencies.
In addition to his theatre writing, Wilcox edited five volumes of "Gay Plays" for Methuen, who also published his autobiographical journal of 1989, "Outlaw in the Hills". His monograph "Benjamin Britten's Operas" was published by Absolute Press in 1997 and was shortlisted by the Royal Philharmonic Society for its music book of the year award.
Wilcox has also worked as opera librettist for John Metcalf's "Tornrak" (Welsh National Opera: 1990) and Eddie McGuire's "Cullercoats Tommy" (Northern Sinfonia and Northern Stage: 1993). For Opera North, he worked with Jeremy Sams on a new libretto for Chabrier's Le roi malgré lui that was first staged at the Edinburgh International Festival as "The Reluctant King" in 1995.
His television dramas include episodes of "Crown Court" and "Cluedo", "Cricket" (BBC TV : Plays for Tomorrow:1981), "Accounts" (C4 : Film on Four:1982), "Lent" (BBC TV : 1985 : Pye and TRICS awards for best script of the year), "Inspector Morse : Last Bus to Woodstock" (1988) and "Doctor Finlay : Winning the Peace" (STV : 1993).
He has also served as a board member for Northern Arts, Northern Stage, NTC Touring Company, and, for some years, was on the Arts Council of England's New Theatre Writing Panel.
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