Glass Eels is a play written by Nell Leyshon, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2003. The play has also been performed on stage at the Hampstead Theatre, it is the second part of a planned quartet of Somerset plays covering the four seasons the first being the award winning Comfort Me with Apples.[1]
The play is set on the Somerset Levels one August, probably on the River Parrett. While it explores a young girl's sexual awakening, and her acceptance of past loss, it also concerns eel fishing and a dying rural way of life.
Glass Eels are a very young eel. They are the type of eel that comes after the new born larvae. Glass eels are see through like glass. Glass eels have black beady eyes like pepper corns. The baby larvae becomes a glass eel in 1-5 months.