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Mind Your Own (stage play: 5w, 2m)
Vera's traditional cafe in the East End of London, already damaged in the riots, is under threat from developers. A fellow shopkeeper on the parade comes up with an audacious plan to thwart the demolition. But when Vera and her regulars start to mount a vigorous campaign to enlist local support, they have not anticipated opposition from within their own ranks. Especially when the opposition comes from Tel, who has long held a torch for Vera... |
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First Do No Harm (stage play: 2w, 2m (playing multiple parts))
Based on real events, this play brings to life, in short, fast-moving scenes, the extraordinary story of the impact of the arrival of one of the first Panel doctors on a small Fenland town at the start of the 20th century. Initial hostility and suspicion soon gives way to outright war between the newly-arrived Harold Leggett and his suffragist wife Maud and the establishment, culminating in riots and death. Charting the difficult birth pangs of the National Health Service, it has strong resonances today. |
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Hoovering on the Edge (stage play: 7 w, 1 m)
Charts the unlikely friendships that develop between seven very different women – tutored by one hapless male - on a summer writing holiday.
Sun, sangria and storytelling – what could possibly go wrong...? Meet Moira the tactless hypochondriac, Clare the dippy yoga teacher, and feisty Rita, to name but a few, as the women embark on a voyage of discovery about themselves, their hopes and their dreams - and uncover some surprising home truths. |
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Pecking Order (stage play: 5w, 1m)
Five women assemble at a luxury spa for an upmarket hen weekend - the bride, her snobbish, overbearing mother, her down-to-earth mother-in-law-to-be, her oldest friend and her most recent best friend. Through a fraught two days, class and ideological warfare erupts and friendships and family loyalties are tested to the limits as the credit crunch bites... |
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Painting from Memory (stage play: 4w, 2m)
How do we know if a memory is real? How is it can we appear to remember with brutal clarity something which did or did not happen? What is truth? Bird is the spiky, sparky centre of this play which explores the tensions in a fractured family following the death of the larger-than-life paterfamilias, a famous painter. |
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Cuckoo (stage play: 3w, 2m)
Greg and Lou are successful young professionals with a comfortable and very trendy lifestyle. Perhaps they do both work a little too hard and perhaps there are some hairline cracks in their marriage, but that’s not so surprising, given the pace they keep up, especially Lou. Life’s pretty good, all told. Then Claudia, Lou’s mother, erupts into their lives and their flat, camping out as her marriage implodes. She and her husband have just sold their lucrative business and seemed set fair for a comfortable and enjoyable retirement. Now all her plans lie in ruins. It does not take long, however, for Claudia to discover that a life free of responsibilities has considerable attractions and that age is no longer a barrier to adventure and romance. Soon Lou and Claudia are out all hours discovering and, in Lou’s case, re-discovering the joys of being footloose and fancy free in 2010, while Greg fights to keep the home fires burning. Claudia begins to take over both their lives and their friends, including Sahid, Greg’s business partner, who, determined to sow his wild oats before he is forced to marry, finds the rejuvenated and fun-seeking older woman irresistible... |
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Thaw (stage play: 1w, 1m)
An isolated country cottage. A severe snow storm. A woman arrives, expecting to meet her lover, but is instead confronted with an intruder who has been living there for three days. He ransacks her belongings and groceries, intending to make his escape in her car. But the appalling weather – and her highly distinctive car – confound his plans. Condemned to spend at least one night together, the pair develop an unlikely truce, sealed by his cooking and her wine. But neither is quite what they seem and as the hours pass, dark and horrific secrets emerge that bind them together ever tighter in mutual need and dependency. |
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Somebody’s Fool (stage play: 4w, 1m)
A bitter-sweet exploration of Alzheimer’s which explores love, loss and terrible family secrets. |
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Gucci Gucci Goo (one act play: 5w, 3m)
One act play about genetic engineering. |
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Other lands (radio: 3w, 4m)
From Hungary half a century ago to present-day England, Other Lands, inspired by a true story, traces one woman’s search for identity and one man’s search for love. |
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Do not go gentle (screenplay: 12w, 13m + many extras)
Faced with the sale of their residential retirement home to a shady American development company, the residents of The Hollies decide to take a stand. Working as a team, they use all the cunning and expertise they have acquired during their long and eventful lives, to devise a plan that will force the owner to sell to them instead. |
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Taste (stage play: 3w, 6m)
Satire on draconian government attempts to tackle the obesity timebomb:
‘... we’ve bred a nation of monsters. We’ve shovelled crap into them – crap food, crap education, crap ideologies – for so long we’ve corrupted them … And then suddenly, driven by panic, we take away what makes life bearable...’ |
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Faultlines (radio: 4w, 3m)
George wants to get to the bottom of his wife’s sudden death in hospital while undergoing routine cancer treatment. His quest for the ‘truth’ uncovers the fractures within the family and leads to catastrophic unintended consequences. |
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