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Wayne Buchanan

WAYNE BUCHANAN  

 Nationality:    British
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below is a list of Wayne Buchanan's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Under Their Influence         Vengeance

Under Their Influence

Synopsis:
play about black mental health may befollowing in the footsteps of Joe Penhall's play 'Blue/Orange' at the National, but it is equally deserving of attention. a black patient, Randoulf, has murdered a violent white man and been diagnosed a paranoid schizophrenic. The play follows Randoulf's attempts to convince a young Asian doctor of his sanity. Buchanan is less ambivalent than Penhall in his conclusion about the man's mental state, but he treads an interesting path along the way, exploringourcapacity for violenceandthe power of parental indoctrination. Randoulf isn't insane, the play proposes, it's just that his inner voice has got too loud. It is shouting at him - a separate entity -berating him for his spiritual and sexual weakness. Dr Kumar, also possessed of a bossy, critical alter ego, has managed to keep hers in check, but the threatofa takeover bid is ever present. Here, the issue of race comes not so much in the diagnosing of the patient, as the patients perception of his colour. I.nciimfortahle in his skin - an object of scorn - Randoulf feels revulsion towards other blacks. Confusion reigns with regard to sex: instructed by his bitter single mum (also institutionalised, though we never discover why) to worship women, Randoulf's romantic inclinations are confounded by his dominating alter ego, who distrusts both women and whites.
Madeline North, Time Out

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in Black and Asian Plays, anthology ed Cheryl Robson, Aurora Metro, 2000   -

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Vengeance

Synopsis:
Two brothers. One just out of prison is resentful of his sibling's success

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