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Current Work
THE DIAMOND NET
A play in 3 acts with music by Elaine Fine; inspired by a true story.
Toronto-born, California-raised MAUD ALLAN, a.k.a. ‘the Salome Dancer’ has won fame and notoriety in London for her dance as the biblical femme fatale, and her not entirely secret relationship with a politician’s wife. In 1918, right-wing M.P. and newspaper publisher NOEL PEMBERTON BILLING accuses ALLAN of belonging to a ‘cult’ of spies recruited by Germany. ALLAN challenges him with a libel prosecution, but he assembles a motley coalition of frightened, socially alienated, and economically desperate people to testify in his defence. ALLAN fights to preserve her career, her relationship, and her life, but BILLING’s accusations dragnet an expanding blacklist of Britain’s lesbians, gay men, ‘enemy aliens,’ Jews, and civil servants—including ALLAN’s increasingly distant lover. As distinctions between fantasy and reality, entertainment and terror fade, ALLAN must rethink the escapist strategies of her art and life. |
Short Bio
R.L. NESVET’s plays have received several awards, productions, and readings in the US and UK. Most recently, The Shape Shifter (2000) has won an Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation grant, the 2002 Playwriting Award for LGBT(Q) history plays. Other plays include The Offensive (2002), which was stage-read in March 2003 at the Sherman Theatre, Cardiff, UK, and won Second Place in Sonoma County Rep’s 2002 New Drama Works competition. Nesvet regularly contributes theatre criticism to The New Welsh Review, the UK daily broadsheet The Western Mail, and to www.theatre-wales.co.uk.
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Honors
Arch and Bruce Brown 2002 Playwriting Award (for GLBT history plays) * 1st Place ATHE PlayWorks 2002 * 2nd Place Sonoma County Rep New Drama Works 2003 |
Union Affiliations/Professional Organizations
Dramatists Guild, International Centre for Women Playwrights
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Contact
Avondale
13 Marine Terrace
Aberystwyth,
SY23 2AZ
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Artist Location
Aberystwyth, OT
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Type of artist
Writer
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General Themes
History, Feminism/Gender Issues, Activism/Social Justice, Laws/Legal System/Prisons, Sexuality |
Keywords
Theatre of the Absurd, Epic Theatre, mythology |
| Last updated on November 1st, 2003 |
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