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LOOK AT ME Running time 15 minutes. A PLAY IN ONE ACT.
DRAMA CAST: 1M, 1F, JACK, age late 30s, TIA, age 23years. 
Jack and Tia live in a flat in a poor part of town. Tia's in love, but they have one argument too many.

LUCREZIA BORGIA. Running Time 85 minutes, approx.
FACT BASED DRAMA, CAST:10-14 M,7-8F. Varying ages. The life of  Lucrezia from 1491 when she is eleven years old, through her marriages, divorce, widowhood and subsequent death at aged only thirty-nine. A large cast required for this play, stage sets can be simplistic.

ME AND JULES Running time 15 minutes. A Play in One Act.
COMEDY/DRAMA CAST: 2M, 1F age late 20s/mid 30s 
Maddie and Norm are not the perfect couple. Maddie is fed up as they don't go out anymore but Norm has his work, his writing. Jason becomes Maddie's shoulder to lean on, particularly when Norm starts receiving messages from Jules Verne!

ME AND MIKE
Monologue. Running time 10 minutes.
COMEDY/ DRAMA Bernice has just received a note from Mike. It's not what she expected, but will hope reveal itself from above?
First performed at Seven Miles Out, Stockport

MISS LYDIA JONES
Monologue. Running time 8 minutes. Lydia lives in the home she inherited from her parents.
Nothing in it is hers. She inherited it all, but maybe things could have been
different? N/A

NO GOING BACK Running time 10 minutes.
DYSTOPIAN DRAMA CAST: 3M and Female voice only. (2M under 20years old, IM, 25yrs old)
A future Dystopia where time's up at twenty-five. Today, it's Tom's turn to leave.

NOT FOR WANT OF TRYING Running time 30 minutes.
COMEDY CAST: 3M, 2F, (12 Assorted guests for wedding party, plus 6 people for dog show) 3M,age late 50s, 1F,age 50s, 1F age,20s. Thelma was left at the church on her wedding day. Giving up on men, she decided to put all her efforts into dog shows. She's in her fifties now and has one ambition left, to get her favourite pooch to Crufts.
Performed during Wirral Festival of Firsts (comp) 2015

ONE NIGHT Running Time 10 minutes.
DRAMA CAST 2M
This is a One Act Play based around the story of David Bowie from his teenage years to Aladdin Sane. N/A atm

OUR BRIAN Running time 40minutes. CAST 1F. This is a monologue.
DRAMA Cast 1F. Looks at old age, loneliness, reliance on others and whether anyone can be trusted; even family. A northern story of deceit and betrayal.
Longlisted for BBC Radio 4 Opening Lines 2014, Read through by Rosemary McVie, (AWL)2020.

RETIREMENT BLUES Running time 70 minutes. CAST:3M, 1F,plus assorted characters, 9, saxophone players, few people in pub. (1m age mid 60s, 1M age late 20s, 1M any age, 1F, age 60ish) 
COMEDY/DRAMA. Jim has a secret he's been keeping from his wife, Edna. She finds out his secret on the day he retires. He wants to play the saxophone. Edna fancied he'd join the golf club and she could attend the gala dinners. It's not to be. Jim joins a band and  they begin to play in the local pubs.
Edna goes along to listen and eventually the two of them realise that they do have more in common than they thought.
* Recorded saxophone music can be used. Remember a licence would be required for any music played.

RUTHLESS Running Time 50 minutes.
GRITTY DRAMA CAST: All female cast. 5F 14-15 yrs old, 1F aged 30ish.All the girls in the cast are aged between 14/15 years old but parts would suit 18yrs.  Available as radio and theatre script. 
This play is set in a girls  secondary school in the late sixties.  It could be any northern town. All the action takes place in the cloak room at lunch time. The action revolves around the 'group' and is quite hard hitting.  
Longlisted for the Top Five comp, Bolton Octagon Theatre, 2017






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