A new writer for the stage after many years of groundwork in technical authorship, translation (French, Portuguese, Norwegian) and management consultancy.
Completed work includes -
"CUTS!" (2011) - a one-act political satire performed as a staged reading at Kings Theatre Gloucester directed by the author
“Complicity” - a 90 minute screen play (2011)
“Reunited”(2010) - a one act stage play
“Cinderella” (2009) - co-writer on an adaption of the pantomime performed by Village Players, Elmore, Glos
“Blind Eye” (2009) - a full length stage play based on the “Complicity” story performed as a staged reading at the Prince of Wales Theatre, London directed by Benet Catty
“Icarus” - a 15 minute screenplay shortlisted in the Cheltenham Screenwriters Festival new writers competition (2007)
A member of Village Players, Elmore (assistant stage manager, dresser, occasional acting coach, and writer of additional material).
Also a member of the Writers Guild (UK), Scriptfactory (UK) and Shooting People.
The background is a Nazi war crimes trial in the early 1980s, but BLIND EYE is not a play about the holocaust. The case drives a story of the conflicting interests of a human rights lawyer and a peace negotiator, and of the legacies parents leave their adult offspring. A rehearsed staged reading of BLIND EYE was held at the Prince of Wales Theatre, London, directed by Benet Catty with a cast of nine professional actors. Responses from the largely industry audience were immensely positive.
Inside Number 11 Downing Street it’s all cronyism, power play and spin. The Chancellor is the poodle of his spokesman and cuts, bigger than ever, are deemed the only response to the crisis. Out in the real world people, as usual, find their own solutions. The Prime Minister’s been kept in the dark and his own household is feeling the pinch. But there’s one man who isn’t fooled, one man determined to find out what’s really going on, an unlikely hero who knows what to do.
A One Act Play with an opportunity for four male and two female actors (minimum) to create some unusual cameo characters and to make quick switching roles a part of the game.
CUTS is published (Jan 2012) by New Theatre Publications http://www.plays4theatre.com