Title
|
M/F
|
Outline
|
Running
Time
|
Obtainable
From
|
The
Spirit of the Land
|
4F/4M
Plus extras
|
The
church closes and the battle begins over the next few years to
transform it into an amenity for the village. Vested interests
and crooked dealings lead to a final scene set in the floods of
2014 with the villagers gathering in the encircled building.
|
4
Acts/
4Scenes
120
minutes
|
Not
available for production yet
|
He’s
Dead
|
2F/3M
|
Rose's
horrific nightmares become reality when her friend Maria is
fatally stabbed. As the plot twists and turns ulterior motives are
gradually revealed
|
2
Acts
85
Mins
|
|
A
Brief Encounter with MURDER
|
3F/6Mplus
one
|
A
restful holiday in a 1940s themed holiday home becomes a bizarre
murder mystery as Mother goes missing with a bearded fisherman and
a fat vicar lies dead in the front room. Was it the Rat Catcher,
the Carpet Fitter or the French Dressmaker? And who is the Man
with the Big Hammer?
|
2
Acts
70
mins
|
|
Pig
Unit
|
3M/2F
|
Polish
immigrant Paluszki comes towork at the Pig Unit with bullying
Leonard and sniping Flint. When Leonard's adoptive Mother and a
local girl earning money to go to college appear on the scene all
hell breaks loose. And then Leonard disappears...
|
2
Acts
6
Scenes
90 minutes
|
|
What
Would Jane Say?
|
1F
|
Jane
Austen comments on her books from a 200 year perspective. She
joins an online dating site and bickers with Cassandra over her
cellphone.
|
2
Acts
70
minutes
|
Not
available yet
|
Anning’s
Fossil Depot
|
1F
|
Schools
and young people. Mary Anning talks about her life and work and
reveals her last illness
|
1
Act
40
minutes
|
|
The
Cabinet Maker’s Daughter
|
1M/2F
|
Mary
Anning, the Mad Woman of Lyme, is dying from breast cancer. Under
the influence of pain deadening narcotics administered by bad
tempered nurse, Susan she hallucinates about her life. When her
longtime love appears is it a dream or reality?
|
2
Acts
90
minutes plus interval
|
|
Guerilla
3
short plays for street performance
|
3
F or M
|
Everyone
Wants to be Somewhere Else
-
3 overlapping mobile phone calls delivered through megaphones
Free
at the Point of Delivery
-
A bizarre new NHS
Steampunk
-
The Colonel and street girl Lou meet in a dystopian future
|
3 x 5
minutes
|
|
Mrs
Adapta Iago's Knitting Circle
|
3F/
1M
|
The
knitting circle has been meeting in the front room of Mrs Adapta
Iago's bungalow every Tuesday and Thursday evening for the past
forty years. But everything is not as it seems - there's
conspiracy in the air. What is the project they've been working on
all that time? Why are the knitting circle members all
intellectual women graduates from one of Oxford's top colleges?
What is the secret they want to keep from Michael, the bus driver?
What actually did happen to Magda? What is the solution to the
four colour problem? And what happened to Connie's rash? This
darkly comic tale is as full of twists and turns as a ball of
wool.
|
2
Acts 4 Scenes
98
Minutes
|
|
She
Opened the Door -The Wife and the Women who Haunted Thomas Hardy
|
4F
|
Controversial
reassment of Thomas Hardy's first wife by Emma. At the time sh was
thought more than a little eccentric but might there have been a
very real reason for her behaviour? Something to do with an
overweening Mother-in-law perhaps?
|
2
Acts
80 minutes
|
With
supporting research and notes on the production.
|
Eve
of War
|
1F
|
Knights
inshining armour or gas masks and refugees? What stories will
Nanny Cummins read from her book “Little Arthur's History of
England” toexplain the oming horror to her small charge? And
will that mean confronting the darkness buried in her own past?
|
2
Acts
90 minutes
|
Not
available for production
|
Welcome
to the Future
|
1
F/ 1M plus 1 child
|
Jimmy
wakes on New Year's day in the year 2000 to see a world
transformed with silver suits and hover cars.
|
20 minutes
|
|
Chelsey
and Baz (With Tara
Dominick)
|
1F/1M
|
Rich
heiress Chelsey alone on her yacht picks up castaway Baz from his
raft in the middle of the ocean. His story changes minute by
minute and so does the posibility of romance.
|
35 minutes
|
|
The
Lady of Shallott
|
1F
|
Bad
tempered Arthritic Jacqueline watches the goings on in the street
below from her window . A group of kids smokingin the bus shelter.
A policeman practising for his role in a Gilbert and Sullivan
production. Meanwhile she tries to complete a tapestry for the
local shopping centre.
|
2
Acts
50 minutes
|
|
Conversations
at the Sorrento
-
A bouquetof short table plays for performing in cafe spaces
|
Various
|
A
woman is dumped by her husband via her mobile phone. Two walkers
consider what would have happened if one of them had fallen from
the clif. Two members of the flower show committee try to have a
meeting. An elderly day tripper tries to decide whether to have a
panini for lunch.
|
5 x 10 and
15 minute pieces.
|
|
The
Town Hall Fish
|
Various
but minimum 4F /3M plus 6 girls, 1 boy and several extras.
|
A
day in the life of a small seaside town. Various characters come
and go and a disagreement escalates between and the manage of the
local aquarium. At the end of day the sight of a drowning sailor
makes think she has seen an angel.
|
2
Acts
110 minutes
|
|
Dead
Air
|
1F/
1M
|
Susie
Strong hosts the Very Very Very Early Show on Radio Violet. But
today nothing in the stdio is working and with the studio
technician not due in for another hour or two she's on her own.
Then she hears footsteps in the corridor outside.
|
2
Acts
40 minutes
|
|
The
Time Machine
|
2F/
2M
Plus
puppets
|
Adaptation
of H.G.Wells' story. But with the added complication of two white
mice hiding in the machine and who get trapped in the future.
|
2
Acts
70 minutes
|
|
We
Call it Home
|
Various
|
An
history in songs and sketches commemorating the fiftieth
anniversary of the opening of a Scout and Guide headquarters in
Dorset. Very specific but could be used as a blueprint for
similar events.
|
40 minutes
|
|
Dick
Whittington and his Crazee Cat
|
1994
|
Knockabout,
updated version of the traditional pantomime.
|
2
Acts
90 minutes
|
|
Captain
Pugwash and the Monster of Green Island
|
4
M plus 1 F to play Tom the Cabin Boy
|
Based
on characters created by John Ryan. Pugwash wants to stand as
toen mayor but he needs to make a grand gesture to be elected. He
decides to set sail for Green Island to capture a monster for the
town zoo. Black Jake stows away on board the black pig and
pandemonium ensues.
|
2
Acts
90minutes
|
Licence
for characters needed. Reading copy only Spyway
Projects
|
Shahrazad
(with the Company)
|
2F/2M
|
Adaptation
and conflation of some of the original Arabian Nights tales as
Shahrazad and her sister Dunyazid take on the wily old King
Shahria and try to put off her execution.
|
2
Acts
70 minutes
|
|
The
Trumpet Major
|
F
1/M4 with doubling.
8
without doubling The old Anne Garland could be doubled by her
younger self.
|
Thomas
Hardy's novel of life in the Napoleonic era, with soldiers massing
to repel invasion, and village life in turmoil as a result.
|
130
mins
|
|
Hiawatha
|
2F
/ 3M
|
Adaptation
of the Longfellow poem. The story told by a band of Jesuit
priests traversing the wilds of Canada.
|
80 minutes
|
|
Sherlock
Holmes and the Case of the Vanishing Author
|
1F/2M
|
Author
Conan Doyle is gradually taken over by his creation Sherlock
Holmes, but then the attempt to kill off his creation, results in
Holmes using all of his skills to escape death.
|
2
Acts/
5
Scenes
90
minutes
|
Published
by LazyBee
Scripts
|
The
Runaway Train (with Jem
Barnes)
|
2F
/ 3M
|
Pantomime
play. Something is blocking the drains in the small wayside
station where the old engine Ethel May Winthrop is being restored.
But what happened to the gold that disappeared on her fateful
last run? Requires full size practical steam engine.
|
2
Acts
90 minutes
|
|
Little
Arthur’s History of England
|
1F
|
Original
version of the play “Eve of War”
|
No
longer available for production
|
|
The
Mayor of Casterbridge
|
2f
/ 3M
|
A
faithful retelling of Thomas
Hardy's
well-loved novel for small company. Michael Henchard sells his
wife after a bout of drunkeness. Vowing never to drink again he
does well and rises to become Mayor. But when his wife and
daughter reappear years later his life spirals into tragedy.
|
90 minutes
|
|
Jane
Eyre (with Helen Palmer
|
2F
/2M
|
An
adaptation of the Charlotte Bronte novel for a small cast in
flexible settings.
|
80 minutes
|
|
Painting
the Clouds with Sunshine
|
1F/2M
|
Young
girl has dreams of Hollywood in the 1930. Her adventureson the
way to stardom
|
70 minutes
|
|
Robinson
Crusoe
|
2
F / 3M
including
cross dressing dame and principal boy
|
Traditonal
panto for small cast touring prouction
|
80 minutes
|
|
Little
Red Riding Hood
|
19792
F / 3M
including
cross dressing dame and principal boy
|
Traditonal
panto for small cast touring prouction. Little Red Riding Hood
lives in the greenwood with her father Robin and outrageous
Grandmother. The Sheriff of Nottingham disguises himself as a
wolf for the usual reasons. With songs.
|
2
Acts
80 minutes
|
|
I
Want to Fly
|
2F/2M
|
Play
for young people in schools with classroom particiption. Four
characters want to learn how they can fly and explore the history
of mankind's attempts to do so.
|
Half day
project. Play itself round thirty minutes
|
|
Brog
Seven (with Jem Barnes)
|
2F
/2M
|
A
play for young people about Energy Conservation. Christine and he
mother run a launderette. Brog Seven arrives from the year 2401 to
sabotage their machines and point out what their misuse of energy
will mean for the future. Meanwhile the dastardly Sir John
Montague wants to corne the energy market for his own ends.
|
40 minutes
|
|
Krondos
(with Jem Barnes)
|
3
F or M
|
A
play for young people about Energy Conservation. Representatives
from three planets meet to decide which is the most efficient
energy source before the Galaxy runs out altogether.
|
30 minutes
with discussion
|
|
The
Web (with Jem Barnes)
|
1f
/ 3M
|
A
play for young people about Energy Conservation. Perhaps the
Wheeler Energy Box will be the answer to all our problems. But
the villainous Grabbitt and Runne have their eyes on it fo
themselves.
|
30 minutes
|
|
Damion
and the Plague of Words(with
Jem Barnes)
|
1F
/3M
|
A
play for young people to encourage reading with participation.
Prince Damion is losing control of the kingdom through a md deluge
of words. Perhaps the children can help by taking the words
topiece and reassembling themin a more organised way.
|
30 minutes
|
|
The
Jolly Farmer (with Jem
Barnes)
|
1F/
3M
|
The
life and times of eighteenth century political activist William
Cobbett. With songs.
|
80 minutes
|
|
A
Grave Matter (with Jem
Barnes)
|
1F
/ 3M
|
A
hot summer in the seventeenth century and the wife of a prominent
Basingstike business man is buried aive twice. Humorous retelling
of a genuine piece of Basingstoke history.
|
80 minutes
|
|
Mummers’
Play
|
All
sorts of permutations for a cast of five
|
Performance
version of the ancient tradition with plenty of modern allusion
and knockabout humour.
|
20 minutes
|
|
A
Christmas Carol (with
Jem Barnes)
|
Cast
of five
|
An
adaptation for flexible company of Charles Dickens' evergreen
tale. Interspersed with traditional carols
|
90 minutes
|
|
Whistling
|
2M
|
A young
volunteer visits an elderly blind man holding out against eviction
|
1
Act
40
minutes
|
Thursday, February 05, 2015
Where Can I Read Your Plays?
Some people have asked me where they can obtain copies of my work. Well here is (as close a I can manage) the complete list of plays. There are 42 including collaborations and short pieces. Some of them are obtainable from my online publishers LazyBee Scripts and one is published in paperback form by Roving Press Ltd. The rest are in dusty old folders on my shelves. Click on the links for contacts.
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