STORIES

PLAYS

My radio plays were produced by Tim Crook, the genius of Independent Radio Drama Productions, and broadcast on LBC Radio.

RESTLESS FAREWELL tells the story of four Scottish fellows sitting round after the unexpected death of their best mate, drinking his whisky and breaking into his computer files. It won the Woolwich Young Playwrights' Award, 1996, and was also produced onstage at the Battersea Arts Centre.

THE GREAT LOS ANGELES OPPORTUNITY tells the story of Jesus coming back to pre-millenial Los Angeles as a black woman who plays blues guitar. (Did I really write that?) It won the London Playwrights Competition, 1995. I wrote a Writer’s Diary.

KENELM DIGBY & THE LIQUID EMPIRE is a swashbuckling historical tragicomedy by my brother, John, which I've rewritten for the radio.
Digby is a maligned colossus of the Renaissance, son of a Gunpowder Plotter, gentleman, scientist, spy and lover.

John is a professor of philosophy in Sydney. He writes and broadcasts about philosophy, acts in a Greek restaurant, and scores a surprising number of runs.

BOSSA NOVA FAUST is a steamy love triangle about a musical-writer, an actress and an Argentinian. 

THE GREAT YES is about a Greek woman who's meant to be teaching Tragedy, but realises it is she herself that is the Greek tragedy.

THE OPEN COUPLE is a Dario Fo satire which I adapted (although I didn't speak Italian at the time) with a couple of sly jokes about Blair, GM foods and Dolly the Sheep.

I plan to write a fiendishly controversial play about the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Early plays: Ooley, Travelogue, Delphi, A Cigar Called Happiness.