CONTACT JAN VIA STAGELAUNCH

GENRE:  Drama/Satire

CAST SIZE (M/F):   3M, 2F

LENGTH:   Full length (75 minutes)

SUITABLE FOR ALL:    Yes

Shiny Shoes and Lipstick is a workplace drama/satire set in a public sector office, with five characters and a runtime of 75 minutes. The play highlights the shortfall in adolescent mental health services through a human story emerging against a backdrop of cuts in provision - a topic which continues to make the headlines. The play also explores the impact of government policy and workplace culture on the wellbeing of staff working within our mental health services - trying, against the odds, to do their best job.
 

The play opens as an Investigating Officer arrives, unannounced, in a busy mental health services office - but no-one is really sure why she is there and she rubs everyone up the wrong way. Over a working week, through meetings, interviews and watercooler chat, tensions develop and secrets are exposed. As the truth becomes clear, the disruption forces staff to confront their own disillusionment. But will anything change? 

GENRE:  Drama (with humour)

CAST SIZE (M/F):   3M, 3F with 4 GN supporting roles.

LENGTH:   Full length (75 minutes)

SUITABLE FOR ALL:    No - death penalty themes

Take the Love is a family drama set in a near-future UK where, under a new regime, the death penalty has been reinstated and capital murder convictions carry an automatic death sentence. The story follows the impact on the Hartley family when 21 year old Alex Hartley and her friend Erica are convicted and sentenced. The story explores how family members are affected emotionally, financially and socially, also revealing a long-held secret between the two sets of parents. 

The story spans 4-5 months and is told through a series of snapshots. The emotional climax is a final recorded phone conversation between mother and daughter and concludes with the surviving family beginning to resume everyday life.