Colin Wilson’s play
Mysteries (a play in three acts),which combines a police thriller with expressionist and absurdist elements to dramatize the phenomenon of multiple personality, was first published in 2008 in
The Death of God and Other Plays. According to Wilson’s introduction to that volume, he had written it in 1979 in response to an approach from a young Welshman, Dafydd Hughes, who wanted to hold a “Colin Wilson” theatre evening in which actors read from Wilson’s works (20). Wilson’s working title for the play had been
Games Therapy, but both he and Hughes came to feel that a better title would be
Mysteries– the same main title as Wilson’s massive 1978 book on the occult (see
Literary Encyclopediaentry on the latter). In that book, Wilson had written at length…
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Citation: Tredell, Nicolas. "Mysteries". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 06 February 2015 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=35604, accessed 27 November 2024.]
