shorter plays commissioned and performed/broadcast
MINE: five-minute lyrical play about three graves in a mining village, in three voices: short-listed in Live Theatre competition, & won me a place on a BBC Radio Residency at The Hurst and hence my commission for NOWT TO LOOK AT. MINE is published in my poetry collection QUANTUM SHEEP.
WHO KILLED THE COMMODORE? an hour long murder mystery for Stage Focus company, performed at various local venues including its setting of Tynemouth Sailing Club, involving audience participation. Rewritten as a radio play, NICE AND LEMMON DO A POIROT.
A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGES not exactly a play, a twenty-minute talk I wrote and broadcast on BBC Radio 3's 'Twenty Minutes' series during a music broadcast from Sage Gateshead. I wrote it as a lyrical love-letter to the Tyne at Newcastle, its bridges, and the historical and modern buildings and activity around it.
SUITE OF RAILWAY PLAYS: written for Pluto Theatre Company, working with the Darlington Railway Museum. These were:
GEORGE STEPHENSON, THIS IS YOUR LIFE performed live & made into a twenty minute film for interactive CD-ROM to be played in museums.
IT IS ROCKET SCIENCE a half-hour comedy for children exploring the impact of the railways on
ordinary people's lives through action packed knockabout humour, and was performed for schools at the railway museum.
THREE TALES OF TRAINS GONE BY and FOUR TALES OF THE RAILS two thirty-minute plays on railway history, about real characters - including a ghost, and a female lion tamer - as promenade performances in the museum.
WHO KILLED THE COMMODORE? an hour long murder mystery for Stage Focus company, performed at various local venues including its setting of Tynemouth Sailing Club, involving audience participation. Rewritten as a radio play, NICE AND LEMMON DO A POIROT.
A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGES not exactly a play, a twenty-minute talk I wrote and broadcast on BBC Radio 3's 'Twenty Minutes' series during a music broadcast from Sage Gateshead. I wrote it as a lyrical love-letter to the Tyne at Newcastle, its bridges, and the historical and modern buildings and activity around it.
SUITE OF RAILWAY PLAYS: written for Pluto Theatre Company, working with the Darlington Railway Museum. These were:
GEORGE STEPHENSON, THIS IS YOUR LIFE performed live & made into a twenty minute film for interactive CD-ROM to be played in museums.
IT IS ROCKET SCIENCE a half-hour comedy for children exploring the impact of the railways on
ordinary people's lives through action packed knockabout humour, and was performed for schools at the railway museum.
THREE TALES OF TRAINS GONE BY and FOUR TALES OF THE RAILS two thirty-minute plays on railway history, about real characters - including a ghost, and a female lion tamer - as promenade performances in the museum.
