Writing and Performances

Most recent works

Spaniel In The Works Theatre Company includes:

Safe As Houses - Commissioned by Bracknell Safeguarding Children's Board

45 minute performance looking at how domestic abuse affects young people who witness it.

Snapshots of Victorian Life - Museum In The Park, Stroud

Two actor schools performance in which audience meet 10 different Victorian characters in an hour.

Bernard & Beatrice’s (Nearly Complete) Guide To Modern Art (In 45 minutes) - Museum In The Park, Stroud

Lively comic performance in which two "art critics" examine the different schools and movements in modern art.

Hurt - Commissioned by Ealing Borough Council

30 minute performance looking at the effects substance misuse has on families.

Is It Me? - Commissioned by Royal College of Nursing

30 minute performance centreing on young people and psychosis

Torremolinos Tales

Comic modern equivalent to the Canterbury Tales

Theatre Writing and Performances (as part of interactive training events - recent works)

Spaniel In The Works Theatre Company includes:

Screaming Without Words -

Full day performance based training programme focussing on young people who self harm

Family Portrait: Mary’s Story

Full day performance based training programme focussing on domestic violence

Family Portrait: Paul’s Story

Full day performance based training event focussing on young people who sexually abuse.

Aegis Training includes:

Before Its Too Late

Series of monologues looking at adolescent child abusers, their motivations and popular misconceptions

Why Me?

Monologue exploring victimisation in prison and the effects on inmates

Theatre Writing

Token Woman Productions

Real Men

Two monologues exploring male gender roles

Hedonist Theatre Company:

Follow The Leaders

One act allegorical play about the British political system

Royal Court Young Peoples Theatre:

Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Guatemala.........

Monologue as part of performance examining human rights abuses in Guatemala

Reading Youth Theatre includes:

Up Against The Wall

Full length play examining the lives of three young men growing up in the 70s and 80s

Chasing Rainbows

Duologue exploring homelessness

The First Time

30 minute comedy about two talentless talent contest entrants

Make Them!

15 minute piece exploring the failings in the education system

Thick As Thieves

One act play examining the influence of the Northern Ireland situation on two young Englishmen

Gladiators

15 minute comic dialectic about the end of the world through nuclear war

Film/Video Writing

SWAAY therapeutic community

Don't Get Me Wrong

30 minute "trigger" video incorporating six short scenes to enable young people to explore relationships

Published Writings - Fiction

New Wave Books

Spring, Summer and Autumn

Novelisation of the play Up Against The Wall about three young men growing up in the 70s and 80s

Museum Theatre Writing and Performance include:

The Science Museum, London includes:

Orchard Days: Adventures of Bogbean

Show for under 7 year olds looking at how the natural world has influenced material science

Threads of Life

Dramatic 45 minute adult monologue looking at the tragic life of Wallace Carothers, inventor of nylon

Time, Universe and Everything

Complete history of everything in 20 minutes

Visions Of Things To Come

30 minute comic show looking at the accuracy of H.G. Well's science fiction predictions.

Victoria and Albert Museum - Main Site includes:

Prince Albert's Palace of Varieties

45 minute music hall style performance looking at major themes in Victorian life.

Oscar and Aubrey

30 minute performance about the relationship between Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley

Cancelling Christmas

30 minute performance looking at Cromwell's attempts to cancel Christmas

Courtauld Institute includes:

Reynolds and The Royal Academy

Educational performance looking at Joshua Reynolds life and work at the Royal Academy

Imperial War Museum includes:

The Kings Shilling

The life of a soldier in the trenches in the First World War

London's Transport Museum includes:

Time Bus

Schools performance for under 7s looking at transport and the environment

Museum of London includes:

The Life and Times of Jack Sheppard &emdash; Thief and Jail-breaker

30 minute performance piece telling the life of the notorious 18th century jailbreaker

Victoria and Albert Museum - Apsley House includes:

A Near Run Thing

30 minute performance telling the story of the Battle of Waterloo

Wallace Collection includes:

Face To Face With Van Dyck

30 minute performance on the life and works of portrait painter Sir Anthony Van Dyck

Stroud Museum In The Park includes:

Mikael Pedersen

The inventor of the Dursley Pedersen bicycle talks about his life, work and his "funny bike"

Fantastic Plastic

Interactive game show performance focussing on Stroud based plastic factory Erinoids

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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