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My main focus is drama for stage and radio.
Performance... ...is the reason for writing. So if you are looking for a one-act play to perform I hope you find one here that makes you want to drag yourself back to the rehearsal room. Click the plays link to see what's on offer and if a synopsis takes your fancy then click through to read the script. I offer half the script to read on-line and then I hope you will contact me so I can send you the full script. |
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SOME BITS OF NEWS
January 2010 We Shall Overcome, a story set in the sixties against a background of the peace movement and at the height of the CND opposition to the H bomb, was shortlisted in the Southport Writers Circle Open Short Story Competition. November 2009 My not so short story (5000 words) The Great British Soviet won the Slough Writers summer competition. This story is about what happened when Britain was invaded by the Russians in 1945 after President Henry Wallace withdrew American forces from Europe (Yes, it did happen - honest). It follows the struggles of one family to survive the new order.
September 2009 SUCCESS AT WATERSTONES. On The Tringham Trail was one of four fifteen minutes radio plays read as a radio performance with sound effects in the Slough bookshop to an audience of 60. The plays were written as part of the Slough Centre Stage project initiated by BBC Radio Berkshire.
July 2009 Lazy Bee Scripts are now the publisher for The Gatekeeper's True Religion.
Stuart Ardern of Lazy Bee reported that his reviewer was very enthusiastic about all aspects of the play, and remarked "One of the most outstanding things about this play is the sly humour that keeps cropping up. I was expecting gloom, something along the lines of “Uncle Vanya”, and instead I was laughing out loud." June 2009 My play Whistleblower under the title Ashes On The Wind (don't ask!) was one of 16 shortlisted plays out of an entry of 236 from 13 different countries in the Drama Association of Wales 2009 One Act Play Festival. Read the script.
June 2009 I have been invited to contribute to a project celebrating the mood of The Sixties. Next year will be the fiftieth anniversary of the start of that fabulous decade. Writers have been asked to take a sixties song as the inspiration for a short story which will be published with a CD of the songs. I selected We Shall Overcome and wrote about a teenager coming to terms with the fear of nuclear war which was very real at the time. The publishing agent said "...this piece of writing...sheds a little light relief, compared to some of the other stories in the book. Also I think it is important that the nuclear threat and the response of people during that time is included in this project. 'We Shall Overcome' is a vital contribution. If this book is a celebration of The Sixties, it is inevitably a reminder of the era - and this is too big a topic to omit." |
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