Plays and Scenes

Most of these little plays were written as part of my university studies.

As part of the Writing for Performance post-grad I did, I was required to come up with a final piece to be performed in an end of year show. The play I'd been working on all year - A Northamptonshire Tale - was too long for me to show, so I wrote the playlet Curia instead.

A lot of these plays came out of that course, or the Royal Exchange's First Eleven, which the course got me onto. The exceptions are the Minutes of the Parish Council Meeting, and the soap I helped write for Storm FM.

Storm FM was Manchester University's student radio, and Five Lives was their daily soap. Two of the presenters on the show it aired during were replaced for pointing out that it was rubbish. Personally, I was with the presenters . . .a would-be dramatist

The first few episodes were written by a foreign exchange student whose grasp of English seemed to come from Jane Austen novels, and the team of writers seemed intent on dealing with every issue possible, in five minute daily episodes. I took things a lot less seriously than most of the other writers, as you'll see.

Minutes was possibly the first and only of its kind: a round robin play, written by the members of a writing group I was running in a basement for a while. We did finish the play, but I can't for the life of me remember how. This is the first instalment.