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GENRE: Comedy Drama

CAST SIZE (M/F): 1F, 1M (both actors play four roles and these roles must not be given to additional actors)

LENGTH:  Full length

SUITABLE FOR ALL:    Not suitable for children

A game of cross and double-cross where all is not as it seems. Natalie wants his secrets and so much more. Brian just wants out. An explosive cocktail of James Bond, Fatal Attraction and Walter Mitty – shaken, not stirred. Two extraordinary lives tangled in lives more ordinary.

Will the double agent reveal his most important secret?

Will the wife hold onto her husband?

Will the doctor convince his patient to ditch her lover?

Will the secretary take off her glasses?

And most importantly...who will survive?

(Produced by the at the Edinburgh Fringe festival in 2003, and at the South London Theatre in 2011)

GENRE: Comedy Drama

CAST SIZE (M/F): 6F, 3M

LENGTH:  One Act

SUITABLE FOR ALL:    Yes

It’s Christmas Day in the Trimmings household; Devoted sisters Patsy and Tracy are slaving away cooking Christmas dinner while the men folk are down the pub. Grandpa sits in his chair expecting his yearly Christmas snowball while Patsy’s daughter, Gemma, eagerly inspects the presents under their fantastic tree. Yet all is not as it seems. What does Kylie, Gemma’s university friend, need to tell Gemma so urgently that it cannot wait? And why does Kath, the annoying neighbour, have a problem with Christmas Day?

(Performed by several amateur drama groups. Most recently by Chameleon productions in December 2021)

GENRE: Comedy Drama

CAST SIZE (M/F): 3F, 3M

LENGTH:  One Act

SUITABLE FOR ALL:    Not suitable for children

Jim and his wife have been coming to Mrs Daniels’ guesthouse on the Isle of Wight for several years. Jim likes to brag about his sex life. Mrs Daniels takes it all in her stride. However, she and Jim are shocked when they discover that new arrivals, Sophie, Lucy and Peter, are not what they seem. Sophie thinks Lucy is in love with her, but Lucy and “best friend” Peter are using Sophie as a pawn in their sordid sex games. Jim befriends Sophie and by doing so, realizes that maybe the time has come for him to reveal that his wife has been dead for a year.

(Produced and performed at several one-act play festivals in Essex)

GENRE: Comedy Farce

CAST SIZE (M/F): 3M, 3F

LENGTH:  Full length

SUITABLE FOR ALL:    Not suitable for children

What would you do if you discovered that your best friend had found true love with the wrong kind of woman? Would you smile and secretly hope that he eventually came to his senses? Or would you talk him out of it and hope he finds a better woman in the future? This is the difficult decision facing the friends and family of Martin Wallace, when they meet the new love of his life, Carol, and discover that she is a blow-up doll. A comedy about love, life, and latex.

(Originally produced in 2000 and revived in 2017 by an amateur theatre company on both occasions)

GENRE: Drama (with sci-fi elements)

CAST SIZE (M/F): 2F (plus some non-speaking roles)

LENGTH:  One Act

SUITABLE FOR ALL:    Yes

Mandy is desperate to see her daughter, Cassie, come home. But it’s been ten years since she vanished, and Mandy’s hopes are fading fast. Then one day she meets a stranger in a café claiming to be Cassie. She also tells Mandy that she’s a time traveller. Is the stranger really Cassie or a deranged girl out to open old wounds from the past?

(Previously produced by an amateur drama company and performed at several one-act play festivals including the Science Fiction festival at the Space Theatre, Isle of Dogs in 2018)