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I am a freelance Playwright, Director, Lecturer and Workshop leader in Theatre and Stage performance, based in the South West of England near the city of Bath. I specialise in creating challenging and entertaining plays for performance by young people in the 11-21 age range. I have also created theatre in education pieces for professional companies.

My plays have been performed all over the United Kingdom, in Europe, Australia and even Asia.

On this site you can find lots of information about each play, including:

plot summaries
lists of characters
advice on staging and performance
 background information about the plays
updates to the scripts
links to additional resources

You can find details of how to purchase the plays and how to obtain licences for performance.

The Last Resort

Hodder Headlines 2001

A Mother's Voice

Hodder Headlines 2002

Children of the Blitz

2006 

Bridges

2004

Jabberwocky

2004

Latest news...

The Last Resort and A Mother's Voice can be used for Edexcel examinations. Edexcel recently revised their rules on what texts qualify for use in their examinations. Texts now need to be "professionally published" and have ISBN numbers. Both of these plays were originally published by Hodder and Stoughton (ISBN 0 340 77686 2 for The Last Resort and ISBN 0 340 77685 for A Mother's Voice). The digital texts are exactly the same as these original versions and therefore can be used for both GCSE and GCE examinations (as many centres currently do - my thanks!)

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I hope to shortly release a new script: It Came from Somewhere Else! This was delayed due to a lack of webspace for a dedicated section. This has now been rectified by a change to a new provider and the new section will hopefully be online sometime after Easter.

The play itself is inspired by wonderful 1950's Sci Fi B movies such as The Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Day the Earth Stood Still and The Invasion of the Body Snatchers. It is a fast paced, funny and colourful romp that is sure to become a popular perfomance piece for schools and colleges everywhere.

The Last Resort, until recently published by Hodder and Stoughton is now available directly from myself in electronic/digital format. I am also now handling all performing rights applications for this play.

For a single, one-off low payment you receive a copy of the play in Microsoft Word format with a licence that allows you to make as many copies as you need for your classroom, workshop or rehearsal use. It is, therefore, easy to make actor specific scripts and all the edits and alterations that you need!

Many schools already make extensive use of The Last Resort as part of their GCSE drama course. Its release in this format should enable even more to follow suite as it offers considerable savings over the previous cost of purchasing a class set.

A Mother's Voice - as well as directly publishing this popular play in digital format, from December 2006 I will also be handling all performing rights applications for it - even if you are working from the original scripts published by Hodder and Stoughton. For further details please follow the links to the Mother's Voice pages. 

Children of the Blitz - is now available! It is a full length play for the 11-16 age range (with some parts suitable for adults and older students) which deals with the evacuation of children in the second World War.

This is an energetic, entertaining and thoughtful look at the challenges that the evacuation process presented - in particular the clash of cultures brought about by the introduction of "town" kids into a rural environment . This is a well researched piece that would make a good focus for a whole school project! Follow the links for further details.

Bridges  is now being made generally available for the first time. This professional production, dealing with the sensitive issue of teenage male suicide,  toured schools and youth centres  in January and February 2004. Both the play and the 60+ page support booklet are now available to professional companies and for amateur production.

Please feel free to contact me  about my plays and regarding commissions, directing or theatre workshops. I will always try to help where I can.