"Gets so, nobody's story's true.
Not yours, not mine. But it's all we've got." First and Fiftieth
My writing - drama and fiction - covers many different characters and situations, ranging from the real to the fantastic, from the deeply serious to the slyly comic, from sensitive to offensive.
As a director of theatre, I work in comedy and drama from ancient history to the present day.
As an actor I perform best on film and audio.
I am currently focusing on playwriting but I am open to any theatre or film offered me.
NOW AVAILABLE
PUBLISHED
AUGUST 2023
WRITER
Eleven Short Plays for drama students & amateur theatre
Eleven Short Plays is the ideal collection for drama groups and students to develop their talents in many topics and styles.
From the time-loops of One More Time and The Report to the polemic of Get A Licence!,
the scripts include comedy (Delivery!), dystopia (Umm Kulthum), the death of Christopher Marlowe (The Reckoning)
and absurdity (Nothing To Be Done, based on a well-known 1950s drama).
E, C, H, K covers the dark side of drug-dealing
while Everyone's Dream reveals different memories of alleged sexual abuse.
A Noh play based on a classic Japanese tale,
The Tragic Love of Two Enemies, and Hand and Foot about, yes, a hand and a foot, complete the volume.
Encolpius, Ascyltos and Giton are penniless young men footloose in the Roman Empire. With narrator Gaius Petronius as their guide and a cantankerous group of Actors who bring to life everyone they encounter, the trio find themselves at the heart of adventures of seduction, deception, love,
thievery, violence and more.
The script of the play that ran at the Assembly Roxy in Edinburgh in early October 2022 (below) is now available post free in the UK.
ON STAGE
OCTOBER 2022
WRITER & DIRECTOR
The Satyricon - the play
Encolpius, Ascyltos and Giton are penniless young men footloose in the Roman Empire. With narrator Gaius Petronius as their guide and a cantankerous group of Actors who bring to life everyone they encounter, the trio find themselves at the heart of adventures of seduction, deception, love,
thievery, violence and more.
My adaptation of the classic Latin comedy The Satyricon ran at the Assembly Roxy in Edinburgh in early October 2022. This fast and funny, filthy and philosophical play challenged and entertained audiences as it straddles the first and twenty-first centuries.
Reviews had critics agreeing on a three-star rating. For details see thesatyricon.uk.
ON STAGE
MAY 2022
DIRECTOR
Hay Fever
"blissful chaos" *
"a great night of comedy" **
Meet the wealthy, self-obsessed and eccentric Bliss family; grande dame of the stage and mother Judith, novelist and father David, and their two children Sorel and Simon. Each has invited a guest to spend the weekend at their country house in rural England - and each has neglected to tell the others. Needless to say friction and hilarity ensue in this classic British comedy of manners.
Hay Fever was the third production I have directed for the Edinburgh Graduate Theatre Group; the talented cast and crew created a
memorably frothy and funny production.
A young man seeks solitude. He thinks he has found it on a deserted beach until
he comes across a burning fire.
I was very pleased to be invited to play the enigmatic beachcomber, together with co-star Daniel Orejon. Writer/producer/director Ross
MacFarlane and music creator Malcolm MacFarlane have created a haunting short film. Watch it and look
out for his next work.
"part corporate hearing, part hellish nightmare ... probably worth the ticket price on its own" All Edinburgh Theatre(pdf version)
The Report was in Bytesize Theatre, a trio of online plays from EGTG in this year's Edinburgh Fringe.
The first outing for my 15-minute drama, which won the Pitlochry Festival Theatre Short Play Award in 2018.
2020: AUDIO
WRITER
Some of my short stories are available in audio, including
the two below. See others here.
From Now Until Eternity
After a year apart, a man returns to the woman he loves. Listen/Download
Ten Million Years
Love comes in many forms and may last for aeons . . . Listen/Download
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