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The House of Wanstead by Michael Daines
Medium: Feature. Email: michaeldines@beeb.net
George and Libby Rooker and their son Georgie have the ideal
lifestyle, doing what their ancestors did-armed robbery,
shoplifting and conning pensioners out of their savings.
But that's all about to change. Lapsed Mormon genealogist
Carrie-Anne Grant is a girl with a mission, to put the Rookers
where they belong-on the throne of England. Armed with research
that conclusively proves George is the rightful monarch,
Carrie-Anne tracks down the Rookers and tells them of their
good fortune.
The Mirror by Alice D Cooper
Medium: Feature. Email: adcooper@btinternet.com
Skewed by a mirror shard, James Wortmans a mysterious
death is investigated by cynical Inspector Golding and Van
the psychic Dutch Pathologist. John, James twin, an
arrogant man derides the police work. But Johns girlfriend
Claire is attracted by Vans gentleness. Something
lurks behind the mirror, and Claire is its next victim.
It drags her through the mirror into a strange blue world
of fear.
The Mobile by Lydia Parker
Medium: Feature. Email: alunandlydia.parker@virgin.net
A young woman unwittingly becomes drawn into the sordid
life and affairs of a loud businessman with a mobile phone
on the train from London to Bath
The Mole by Marc Pye
Medium: Feature. Email: marc.pye@lineone.net
The Mole is based upon the life of Joseph Williamson, an
1800's Liverpool eccentric who inherited a vast sum of money
from his father in law on his deathbed with the instruction
that he must do good with it. Joseph decided to disguise
charity to the necessitous poor - soldiers returning home
from the Napoleonic wars to find there was no work - by
generating the worlds first 'job creation scheme'.
The Price of Life by Craig Henderson
Medium: Feature. Email: craighenderson@web-hq.com
A failed undercover police operation to catch Dominic McGrath.
McGrath uses a city courier firm to launder drug money.
On the day, things start to go wrong. Spencer, McGrath's
driver makes enemies along the way, McGrath's minions end
up dead and there is no sign of any money. 5 months later
the money is handed in to the police there is only one person
to blame for this.
The Summer of Fifi LaBelle by Helen
Brady
Medium: Feature. Email: hlenbrdii@hotmail.com
What do two sixteen-year old boys, from the rural middle
of nowhere, who have pretensions to intellectual sophistication
want? SEX with a French woman. Gerry and Roger are "nice"
boys, the only sons of respectable, middle-class parents.
They live in a small, pretty country town and go to the
local boy's grammar school and they're really into films.
Girls are a bit of a mystery to them, and their mates. But
GCSE's are over and summer's coming
The Trials of Helen Duncan by Alice
D Cooper
Medium: Feature. Email: adcooper@btinternet.com
The tragic true story of Helen Duncan, one of the greatest
psychics of the 20th Century, and the last person to be
convicted as a witch. The year is 1944...
The Wicked Sleep by Chase Johnston-Lynch
Medium: Feature. Email: moon2blaze@hotmail.com
This is a murder mystery that begins with a dead body and
follows a labyrinthine path through copycat killings and
a bad drug deal involving crooked cops. When two private
detectives join forces to squeeze the similar cases together
that are 20 years apart, all kind of hell pops lose. This
is the first in a series of bizarre happenings explored
by American Detective, Ramsey Caan
Tongue Tied by Jason Clarke
Medium: Feature. Email: jasonclarke7@hotmail.com
Paul is a mechanic who dreams of being a writer. When he
teaches his Indian neighbour's niece English, their teacher-pupil
relationship looks like breaking the rules. But when Paul
learns Mansi is to have an arranged marriage, he has to
find the words to follow his heart and his ambitions.
Truce by Peter Shillingford
Medium: Feature. Email: findshill@btoprnworld.com
Christmas 1914 saw the truce begun by the Germans and honoured
by the English. Bitter enemies became friends. Wine, beer
and military rations were exchanged, contents of marksmanships,
wrestling and the famous football match were played. Artillery
shelled both lines and No Mans Land became a bloody battleground
once more.
Unnatural Girl by Lorrie Sheehy
Medium: Feature. Email: lorrie.sheehy@virgin.net
Imprisoned by her mother in a Bavarian clinic for sexual
deviants, 21 year old New Zealander Katherine Mansfield
escapes to visit her beloved brother in London. The city
absorbs her and she is consumed by it. She makes it her
own as she discovers its underworld and challenges its outer
life vowing to experience everything of it, everything that
will fuel her writing and inform her new life. But this
is a time of war and Katherine will hear the heavy march
of boots one too many times as she learns through devastating
tragedy that life is not about the living of experience,
but the experience of emotion.
While The Sun Shines by Julian Astin
Medium: Feature. Email: julian.astin@s-f.com
HOWIE, a newly retired forest officer in British Columbia,
Canada is marking time. But a chance meeting at a gas station
gets him thinking. With little consideration he and his
wife PEARL decide, somewhat impetuously, to take to the
road, permanently, in a recreational vehicle or RV. And
like all 'Snowbirds' there's only one place to go; south.
But there's a problem - their daughter SYLVIE. Now in her
early thirties Sylvie is still persecuting her parents for
the accidental death (from an overdose) of her brother fifteen
years earlier.
All Sweetness & Light by Chris
Kelly
Medium: Theatre. Email: c_kelly@ckelly.co.uk
This three act stage play takes place in Jacksys Nightclub
where two ex punks meet after many years and try to recapture
the mood of the punk movement. They reminisce and realise
that they have outgrown the clubbing lifestyle. They and
the other characters discover what they really want from
life and where they are going. A play for six characters
All the Toys in the Toyshop
Medium: Theatre. Email: hughbrune@aol.com
The job interview from hell. A strangely-overqualified candidate;
a nervous, recently-demoted interviewer; and a fiery-tempered
boss who can't bear timewasters. Who really holds the balance
of power between them?
Allport's Revenge by Anthony Melnikoff
Medium: Theatre. Email: almelnikoff@btopenworld.com
Jonathan, a law student and "born again" Jew in
his early twenties, arrives with Rivka, his new girlfriend,
at the house of his parents, Naomi and Arnold, where a dinner
is planned to celebrate his birthday. Jonathan has a degenerative
kidney condition which we learn is inherited from his mother,
and is in urgent need of a transplant. The condition, known
as "Allport's Syndrome"
Beautiful Objects by Anna Lidstone
Medium: Theatre. Emails: anna_lidstone@hotmail.com
The world is at war with itself. Children are shooting children.
Mobile phones are ringing for those who will never answer
them again. The media still thinks there is an objective
truth. Everyone is just doing their best in a world they
dont understand. The last thing anyone needs is a
government which thinks it has the answer
Closer to Home by Anna Lidstone
Medium: Theatre. Email: anna_lidstone@hotmail.com
A teenager sits trying to do his homework surrounded by
the soundscape of his drunken father and his weary mother
fighting in the next room, with only a closed door between
them. A radio stage play, Closer to Home is
an experiment in the possibilities of theatre, where the
main character, the only character to appear on stage, does
not say a single word
Cottage Pie by Martin Henshell and
Adso Brown
Medium: Theatre. Email: adsobrown2@aol.com
Mick and Marianne's hopes for a quiet anniversary are shattered
when Keith (Mick's brother and Marianne's estranged husband)
arrives, bringing with him an illegal immigrant not long
for this world and half a million dollars worth of diamonds.
Can there be explosive, modern farce of piracy, publishing,
diamonds and pie? "This is not a gamble. This is a
right of birth."
Dead Guy's Reunion by Nevill Williams
& David Budd
Medium: Theatre. Email: cryhelpproductions@supanet.com
Five friends gather for their friend's funeral. In the five
years since they last saw each other their lives and relationships
have taken them along different paths. Paul, the once up
and coming solicitor is now teaching history at his old
school. Lauren, Paul's ex-girlfriend, is close to greatness
in the career she has made for herself. Anne and Jonathan,
married but far from happy, have forgotten how to communicate.
Jonathan knows nothing of Anne's pregnancy and she knows
nothing of his fantastical plans. Stephen was Guy's lover.
All he wants is to go back to his boat in the Maldives,
watch the sun set and turn back time to when he last held
Guy.
Eternal Return by Amanda Walker
Medium: Theatre. Email: amanda.walker@english.oxford.ac.uk
Family is where you are supposed to be safe. Right? What
if your family is the problem? Structurally the play consists
of five separate character perspectives, each comprised
of fragmented memories. These combine to give a complete
narrative in which memory and history collide and the past
becomes irrepressible. The play explores the events that
created this turbulent consciousness in the first of five
acts
In the Museum by Malcolm Seymour
Medium: Theatre. Email: malc@seymour54.fsnet.co.uk
Bernard Home is the curator of a small-town museum. At closing
time, he invites his long visitor, Andrew to stay behind
for coffee and biscuits. He shows Andrew some of his secret
exhibits, grisly momentos from the towns history.
But Bernard not only knows a lot about the history of the
town, but also about the history of his visitor.
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