Absurd
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Finalist - 34th British All Winners Festival (NDFA) : 2007 (Rushen Players)
Winner - Warwickshire Play Festival : 2007 (Abbey Players)
Winner - BEST COMEDY, Sunshine Coast Theatre Festival : 2006, Australia (Jally Productions)
Winner - BEST ORIGINAL PLAY, All England Theatre Festival (North East Heats) : 2005
(1f, 4m/f) apx 40 mins
A woman puts a box down next to a stranger in a park, giving strict instructions before she rushes off, not to move, knock, tilt or open it. Passers-by offer suggestions as to what's inside, and what should be done with it - is it a bomb, a packet of deadly anthrax or perhaps a severed head? At last, exasperated by these highly opinionated people, the stranger shakes and rattles the box, only to be berated by the returning woman, who reveals all, much to their embarrassment. |
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Winner - BEST COMEDY, Sunshine Coast Theatre Festival, Australia : 2007 (Jally Productions)
Finalist - British All Winners NDFA, Woking : 2006 (Phoenix Theatre Company)
Finalist - British One Act Drama Festival, Perth : 2006 (Phoenix Theatre Company)
Winner - Welsh National Drama Festival : 2006 (Phoenix Theatre Company)
Winner - AMFEST Festival, Wits Theatre, Johannesburg, South Africa : 2002
(4m, 1f, 1m/f) apx 35 mins
Kenaf has just learnt that he's about to die and his life changes dramatically as he finally stands up to his domineering wife, the bullying brute and the condescending Doctor. British and Australian versions available. |
Black Comedy
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Winner - BEST NEW WRITING, Buxton Festival Fringe : 2003
(1f) apx 35 mins
Ruth is in her forties. She travels with baby Eve, a slowly dwindling mountain of baggage and a distinct lack of self-esteem on a somewhat fraught train journey to see her grown-up son. We hear the story of Eve through Ruth’s inner thoughts and outer utterances in this bitter-sweet comedy of lost love and lost luggage. |
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Winner - BEST ORIGINAL PLAY : All England Theatre Festival (North East Heats) : 2006
(2m, 5f) apx 40 mins
Whilst waiting in a doctors' surgery in a rough part of town, Pippa, a well-spoken woman complains to the loud-mouthed Tracey and Monica who had been vigorously discussing their affairs for all to hear. Now rather antagonised, the two women try and discover why this posh person needs to be here. After quite some prevarication, it transpires that Pippa has been the subject of serious mental and physical abuse by her lawyer husband, a fact that immediately aligns her with Tracey who has suffered similarly. |
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Nominated - Manchester Evening News Award (Best Play) : 2006
(2f) apx 60 mins
Dark secrets hidden in the grey mists of time are reluctantly revealed in this excellent black comedy, set in a small village in 1880's Russia. On the bizarre discovery of an empty coffin in Anya's lodgings, she and friend Sonia are goaded into recollecting some things they'd rather forget from their earlier years. |
Comedy
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Highly Commended - Drama Association of Wales, Annual Playwriting Competion : 2000
(4m, 3f)
England in 1642 sees two actors fleeing from persecution as Royalists by Cromwell's men. As they try to meet their friend who will help them escape, they run into two 'ladies of the night' who recognise them as actors. Will they hold their tongues? Can they be bought? What revelation is one of the actors forced to make to the other? |
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Winner - Drama Association of Wales Annual Playwriting Competition : 1997
(4f, 3m/f)
The cleaning ladies in the municipal art gallery enjoy their work, but rumours of government cut backs threaten to upset their cosy regime. In the face of adversity they come up with a solution that not only secures their futures and helps to save the gallery, but also ensures that their lives will never be quite the same again. |
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Winner -Anstruther-Gray Drama Competition(SWRI Finals) - Shiskine Drama Group - 2010
(9f)
The village drama group has lost all their men. The future looks bleak until a bright, young director agrees to help them out. The suggested solution at first shocks the straight-laced villagers, but then becomes the vehicle which gets the cash flowing back into the groups desperate bank account. |
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Nominated - AMFEST Festival, Wits Theatre, Johannesburg, South Africa : 2000
(2m, 1f)
The action for this unlikely comedy occurs in the sultry, smoky setting of a private and intensely personal investigation into the wherabouts of a missing person. The client is a remarkably beautiful woman, however, instead of the suave, gravel-voiced detective we may have come to expect, we encounter Orton T. Norton - a frenetic, obsessive, and somewhat eccentric private eye. |
Drama
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Finalist - NDFA All Winners Drama Festival, Woking : 2009 (Wilstead Players)
Winner - BEST ONE ACT PLAY (Female Cast) : Drama Association of Wales Competition : 2000
(4f) apx 40 mins
Three women seek shelter in an inner city hostel for the homeless. On this cold winter night, each has a different reason for being there. Two of them are having to come to terms with recent events which have shattered their lives. The other cannot forget her failing because once a year for fifty years she has been vividly reminded. |
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Winner - Cameron Mackintosh Award for New Writing, 2007
Nominated - Best Comedy and Best Production by a Young Company, Buxton Fringe, 2006
(3m, 2f) apx 60 mins
A moving tale of friendship, a knock-about farce of quick-witted punning and a surreal blend of theatre and reality - all mixed into one truly unique theatrical battle between Stoppardian wit and Beckettian Calamity. The story follows Fred and Eddie, two unwitting halves of a comic double-act, whose day at the office is interrupted by mysterious disembodied voices from behind the walls and the discovery of a familiar carved sharpener. Their day of crossword solutions soon becomes a race against time to save their long-lost friend Jen, facing cross words, theatrical tricks and a briefcase full of dried fruit. |
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Nominated - BEST NEW WRITING, Buxton Fringe, 2010
(2m, 3f) apx 60 mins
James embarks on a quixotic adventure to harness the power of his dreams and live forever. But once you’ve opened the door to infinite possibilities can you ever truly live in the real world? A funny, poetic and bittersweet tale of love, perfection and flying too close to the sun. |
Thriller / Mystery
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Winner - BEST ORIGINAL PLAY : All England Theatre Festival (North East Heats) : 2003
(1m, 3f) apx 40 mins
Ten thousand pounds in grant money has been stolen from the Village Hall committee and although Fred Jackson is a retired policeman, his instincts are still razor-sharp. It's unlikely to be Allison, the recently arrived newcomer to the village, but has Joan, the treasurer, dipped her fingers in the till, or does Audrey, the 'local girl made good' and now Chair of the Committee know more than she's letting on? |
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Winner - BEST ORIGINAL PLAY : All England Theatre Festival (North East Heats) : 2004
(1m, 4f) apx 40 mins
Susan suffers a fatal accident caused by her husband, Jack. She meets Alice and Harriet in the graveyard who, also being dead, have to persuade Susan to reconcile herself to the fact that she has been been murdered. Can they do this, or will Susan be forced to spend the rest of eternity in the Sea Of Lost Souls? Fates Thread is a ghost story. It's a murder mystery, and a light comedy. It's a race against time to save a soul. |
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Comedy
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Winner - BEST ORIGINAL PLAY, All England Theatre Festival (North East Heats) : 2007
(4m, 2f)
Based on the medieval French play featuring Pierre Patelin, this play is a comedy involving trickery, lust, avarice and getting one’s just deserts, in which respect it retains the original theme of morality. In the play we meet Peter Pantelyne, a trickster who live on his wits, his spirited wife Gloria, a dim motor mechanic called Cooksey and a despicable pawnbroker who has about every vice known to man. Caught up in the middle of this motley bunch is the Judge, initially a victim of the pawnbroker, but who turns the tables in spectacular fashion. The play contains a fight scene and some (optional) nudity. |
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Winner - AUDIENCE AWARD, Wakefield Drama Festival : 2009 (JABA Players)
(4m, 10f)
In a small Maternity Ward, Sister Mitchell and Nurse Walker have to contend with four pregnant women and their other half's (or mother in one case) each with different reasons for being pregnant and different views on births, deaths and marriages. It may sound like an unlikely setting for a comedy play, but Janet Shaw has a talent for turning the most incongruous situation and poking fun at it, or the people in it. Great fun! |
Drama
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Winner - YOUTH DRAMA AWARD, Kent Drama Festival (Youth Drama Challenge Cup) : 2009
(4m, 16f)
Brought to attention by the film 'The Magdalene Sisters', this play vividly portrays the despair and inhumanity inflicted on the 'Maggies' - those unfortunate girls who had the misfortune to be institutionalised in the Magdalen Laundries. Their crimes? Being pregnant mainly. Their punishment? To be separated from their familes and work long hours in the laundry. Requires a mostly young cast. |
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