Sue Blundell
Since 1997 Sue has been a member of the Steering Committee of the Xenia
Theatre Company, working in collaboration with the British Museum to
create live performances based on classical texts, including excerpts
from the Iliad and Odyssey, and Aristophanes' comedies Lysistrata and
Wasps. In this way she's become involved in writing for performance,
mainly on themes inspired by classical myth and thought. She has had
a number of theatre pieces produced in the last few years:
2001
A ten-minute play, A Different Kind of Dancing, at the Soho
Theatre, London
A dramatic monologue, Epicurus on Happiness, at the British Museum, London
2006
How to be Happy, 2 dramatic monologues based on the works of
the philosophers Epicurus and Seneca, at the British Museum, London
2007
A full-length play, Goddesses, at the Pleasance Theatre, London,
by final year performing arts students, London Metropolitan University
2 short plays, as part of a collaborative piece by the Bonnington Group
of writers, The Quite Peculiar and Irresistible Charm of Ellen Terry,
at the Barn Theatre, Smallhythe, Kent.
How to be Happy at Hamilton College, USA.
2009
A version of How to be Happy for school students at the Classics
Centre, Oxford.
Forthcoming in November 2009
Darwin and the Greeks at the British Museum.
Email Sue: sue@bonningtonplaywrights.co.uk