n/a

unproduced

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Published privately - scripts available

1971

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Full length verse/prose play

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17

8

exras, doubling

Notes: 3rd play in sequence of plays STRUGNELL'S WORLD

Synopsis: Strugnell has been dumped in The Grot (debased land outside The City) and left for dead. Saved by Trudy (killed by soldiers looking for Strugnell). Strugnell organises silent demonstration against City, which ends disastrously. Falls foul of Indigo (professional insurgent) and is banished from the entire area.

Dorset Pub Tour

1981

Wanda Theatre - Word And Action (Dorset)

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verse play

One Act

1

2

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Notes: 3rd Transformation play

Synopsis: Trevor Minty works in egg-packing factory (just taken over by Canadian Lucy Baskett). He gets his unwilling daughter, Edna, a job in the factory - but she makes a mess of it. Lucy is trying to sell the factory (having inherited it from her father). Edna tries to release the battery hens that supply the eggs, with unexpected results. A family secret too gets forced into resolving itself.

Dorset Pub Tour

1979

Wanda Theatre - Word And Action (Dorset)

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verse play

One Act

2

1

-

Notes: 1st Transformation Play

Synopsis: As a response to local vandalism, the Council intends to replace natural trees with plastic ones in vulnerable areas. Jagg, Chairman of the Council brings Allardyce, smart young councillor and initiator of the scheme, to his home to discuss the matter further. Connie, proud housewife, not only objects to the idea but is miffed by Allardyce's sexual advances to her. She plots her revenge

unproduced

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-

Published privately - scripts available

1971

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Full-length verse and prose play

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16

5

can be doubled

Notes: Second play in sequence of plays Strugnell's World

Synopsis: Quest returns to his native City, after his mountain encounter with the Monster. He is determined to live a quiet life, but the City's smooth totalitarian bosses remember him as a dangerous antagonist and believe he is there to cause more trouble. They engineer a show trial (that is interrupted by a terrorist attack); however Quest (proper name Strugnell) is not rescued, and is then brutalised to the point of death - his body taken to the Grot (a gruesome place outside the City) and left for vermin to dispose of -(see And THE GROT)

Studio Theatre, Scarborough

1962

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

Symphony for Voices in four movements

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Innumerable - but can be performed by mixed company of six or more

Notes: Experimental script - exploring the revised hanging law brought in just before abolition of capital punishment

Synopsis: Martin, difficult childhood, ex-army, kills his bride on the stroke of the New Year. Eventually hanged - but story develops through mixture of poems, songs, narratives exploring his meeting and developing relationship with Catherine to a background of comments by parents, relatives, friends, officials, acquaintances, and the general public

Wimborne, Dorset

2000

Word And Action (Dorset) - Wanda Theatre

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1973

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Short verse (choral) play - environmental theme

One Act

1

-

Other parts - many - minimum mixed cast of 6

Notes: Similar in form to Eliot's Under the Bamboo Tree

Synopsis: The Council plans to cut down a wood. Joko arrives at the key meeting and manages to turn the ordinary councillors against the major officials involved in the scheme. Eventually a geodesic dome is built on waste land from all the scraps and old bits of wood lying around.

Eastleigh, Hampshire

1963

Wyvern Youth Drama Club, Eastleigh

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verse play for Youth Club

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21

could be performed by 10 actors (all F)

Notes: Play specially written for Youth Drama Club

Synopsis: Doreen Meadowes discovers she has been adopted and that her real name is Marsh. She seeks to find her proper mother, which takes her into difficult situations with a mixture of disturbing characters. In a dream she hands her role over to Betty, a singer of songs, which adds to the confusion of the situation, and causes the dream-death of Betty, but leaves Doreen (now at peace with herself) much more able to face the search for her birth-mother.

Dorset Tour

1976

Word And Action (Dorset) - Wanda Theatre

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Full length verse play in ten scenes

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10

6

can be doubled

Notes: 5th play in sequence Strugnell's World

Synopsis: Story from Flute's viewpoint. Dispatched by Quest (now the villain of the piece) down into a deep cellar, Flute goes through a succession of underground adventures, involving old hippies with boxing gloves, an educational academy, a drugs community and a strange marsh guru, before surfacing once more to meet Mary. Meanwhile another version of Quest's disintegration is played out

Dorset Pub Tour

1982

Word And Action (Dorset) - Wanda Theatre

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verse play

One Act

2

2

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Notes: Fourth Transformation Play

Synopsis: Gert runs a Spirithood of Sisters group; she gets upset with an advert placed by a toy-making firm and, in applying for the job on offer, more or less totally demolishes the well-meaning manager, Mr Matt, during the interview. At home though she has a brain-damaged girl, Rhea, and a husband, Arch, rushed off his feet trying to look after a small nursery, the home and Rhea at the same time. Heavy rain, causing a greenhouse to flood, a disastrously cooked meal, and Gert's tetchy relationship with Rhea, cause a family bust-up; but the arrival of Mr Matt surprisingly lessens the tension.

unproduced

1966

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Published privately - scripts available

1976

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verse play

One Act

2

1

-

Notes: carries a feeling of East African rural landscape, though not specific to the plot

Synopsis: Jeph is walking along a country lane and is attacked and robbed by Smirk, and left for dead. Later, completely dazed and blinded, he is again accosted by Smirk who cannot believe the coincidence. They are close to Smirk's hideout. Smirk has other business to attend to. Jeph discovers the hideout - there's a girl there, another one of Smirk's victims. A strange relationship ensues and Smirk returns, with fatal results, and a surprising end.

Wyvern School Drama Club

1960

Wyvern School Drama Club / Wanda Theatre

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Episodic full length verse play

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29 characters - much doubling possible

Notes: 1st in the sequence of plays Strugnell's World. In the light of the succeeding plays, The Monster (the only one written originally for children to perform) has the nature of a legend, something not quite of the world the other plays are set in.

Synopsis: Quest and Flute have arrived in the foothills of a distant mountain. Through contacts with both poor and rich communities, they are confronted with the presence of a monster that lives on the mountain's peak. Quest determines to fight the creature, but the inhabitants of the mountain are outraged by his intention. The two friends, by more luck than judgement, survive other hostile bodies; but their arrival at the Faultless Peak has tragic consequences - and a surprising awareness of what is really going on.

tour round schools in the Eastleigh, Hants, area

1959

Eastleigh Children's Theatre Group

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Childrens

Youth Audience

7

5

plus crowd (and other parts provided by audience)

Notes: Full length play set in indefinite past, containing play within a play. Passages of improvisation and participation. Won 2nd Prize in National Childrens Theatre Playwriting Competition  1960

Synopsis: A band of actors arrives in the town of Botherham. A widow is being threatened with being thrown out of her house by a nasty landlord because she can't play the rent. The actors suggest making up a play to earn the necessary money and the idea so catches on that everyone from the pompous Mayor to the bad Landlord want to take part. So the play The Greedy Prince is performed with the parts being appropriately played and all comes right in the end (for those who deserve it anyway).

Dorset Parks and Halls

1975-76

Word And Action (Dorset) - Wanda Theatre

Word And Action (Dorset) Publications. Reprinted privately 2004  scripts available

1977

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short one-act verse plays

One Act

2

1

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Notes: All plays using basic elements of traditional Mummers' Plays in terms of language (unsophisticated rhyming) and action (fight; death; resurrection), but forgoing mummers' costumes.

Synopsis: Willowby Whisper, farmer, loves insecticides. Robin tries to stop him, gets pushed down well - but, miraculously escapes. Kate meanwhile has accepted invitation to attend Harvest Supper at Willowby's. Robin agrees to go along (not knowing whose supper it is. Trouble ensues - Robin gets jealous and goes off to burn down corn. Willowby traps him in sea of flame, but fails to seduce Kate and is driven away by Robin's ghostly voice. Kate goes off to find and follow Robin

Dorset Parks and Halls

1975-76

Word And Action (Dorset) - Wanda Theatre

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1977

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short one-act verse plays

One Act

1

1

doubling

Notes: All plays using basic elements of traditional Mummers' Plays in terms of language (unsophisticated rhyming) and action (fight; death; resurrection), but forgoing mummers' costumes.

Synopsis: Cold Spring. Kate still waiting for Robin, but moves away when Robin fails to appear. Sodogrecat (a kind of monster) pushes reluctant Robin up on surface. Kate and Robin captured (and brought together) by Doctor Sage - Sodogrecat's alter ego. He puts them into a herbal trance, which causes them to argue even more fiercely with each other before re-awakening their respective warm spots for each other. They go off into the summer to foil Ogilvy's Gash's plans to allow a motorway to be built.

Dorset Parks and Halls

1975-76

Word And Action (Dorset) - Wanda Theatre

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1977

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short one-act verse plays

One Act

2

1

-

Notes: All plays using basic elements of traditional Mummers' Plays in terms of language (unsophisticated rhyming) and action (fight; death; resurrection), but forgoing mummers' costumes.

Synopsis: Arthur Brick boasts of his plan to turn wood into leisure centre; Robin Goodfellow kidnaps daughter and threatens to kill her if plan is not dropped. Brick refuses. Kate, his daughter, agrees with Robin - a struggle ensues and her father dies (only to crawl off the acting area in high dudgeon at losing in such a way). Robin and Kate join forces to fight other environmental hazards.

Dorset Parks and Halls

1975-76

Word And Action (Dorset) - Wanda Theatre

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1977

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short one-act verse plays

One Act

1

1

doubling

Notes: All plays using basic elements of traditional Mummers' Plays in terms of language (unsophisticated rhyming) and action (fight; death; resurrection), but forgoing mummers' costumes.

Synopsis: Ogilvy Gash, Inspector for roads, is finding his task impossible because of the presence of Robin and Kate. At home though he falls asleep and dreams. Robin and Kate arrive to frustrate him; but Ogilvy summons up himself as a super hero Gilly Gash to turn the tables on the green pair. Gilly traps Robin and takes him off to a barren place, but Kate tracks him there, releases Robin and, again the pair of them put paid to their tormentor. Ogilvy awakens, shaken by the dream and decides that, far from giving permission for the motorway to be built, he will himself join the ranks of the protesters. Kate and Robin look forward to a more peaceful future together - with Kate definitely in charge. Throughout the sequence, the developing relationship of Kate and Robin provides a very important sub-theme to the different environmental and mythological issues that seem to drive the plays along.

Dorset Parks and Halls

1975-76

Word And Action (Dorset) - Wanda Theatre

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1977

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short one-act verse plays

One Act

2

1

Two female roles, but one M. actor places two roles - M and F)

Notes: All plays using basic elements of traditional Mummers' Plays in terms of language (unsophisticated rhyming) and action (fight; death; resurrection), but forgoing mummers' costumes.

Synopsis: Robin has disappeared; Kate is being led through winter woods by Fanny Crossword, taking her to Robin's lair underground. Robin and Father Christmas not getting on too well - when Kate arrives, a big argument and a Christmas celebration. Kate goes back on earth to wait for Spring, when Robin promises to throw off his drunken stupor and re-appear.

Dorset Pub Tour

1980

Word And Action (Dorset) - Wanda Theatre

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Verse play - with town v. country theme

One Act

1

2

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Notes: 2nd Transformation Play

Synopsis: Gilbert Golightly has come out of town to visit the exquisite village of Bliss Dene, only to fall into the clutches of Polly Dirt, daughter of the village's handyman, and violently bored with the Paradise she lives in. She offers to give Gilbert a tour round the local beauty and historical spots. Gilbert is terrified of her interpretation of her role and, being abandoned by her in some disgust, finds himself on the farm of Penelope Withers, whom he accuses of tearing down all the hedges to the fields. Penelope, exasperated, drives him out, but then gets involved in an altercation with Polly, who seems convinced Penelope and her dad are getting into bed with each other. Penelope turns the tables on her, as both realise Gilbert is still in the neighbourhood. They join forces to put Gilbert through a ritual that exhausts the three of them and brings in the kind of peace to match the dying down of a beautiful day. To celebrate, the three of them jump in the river.

Dorset Tour

1973

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verse play

One Act

2

1

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Notes: Part of double programme based on theme of Pandora's Box. The three characters in this play (BRAN, POD and SAXO are an anagram out of the box itself!

Synopsis: Pod wanted a girl, but gives birth to Saxo instead. As the years pass he grows into a monster, whilst his mother and father (Bran)grow apart. He seduces the girl next door (whom his father also covets) and takes over the family home as a brothel. He eventually rapes his own mother and eats up both his parents before giving birth to them before dying . They crouch by his dead body, aware that he has brought them into a disturbingly hopeful new world.

The Grove Theatre, Market Drayton, Shropshire

1967

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Published privately - scripts available

1963

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verse play

One Act

2

2

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Notes: A play that depends for its understanding on which character is being played by which character at any given time. Actor ONE (M) plays all three main characters (M,F,F-child) at different times, Actor TWO (F) has a go at two characters (F and M), Actor T

Synopsis: The plot is simple: Pearl and Brutus are unhappily married. Pearl has a lover, Hector and Brutus has a friend called Fred, who knows too much about the family affairs. To start, Pearl shows nothing but contempt for Brutus, but Brutus gets the upper hand and when Pearl confesses her unfaithfulness, almost strangles her. This makes them more aware of each other, and they cheer up to welcome their daughter's arrival home for her birthday party - when she is given a special present. They become one big happy family. The play's meaning though only depends totally on which actor is playing which character at each turning point of the play - and also on the nature of Sophy's special present.

Wyvern School Drama Club Eastleigh

1959

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Published privately - scripts available

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Verse Play - (Word-dance) A kind of morality play

One Act

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All pieces of a Chess set

Notes: A dance-drama - but to words not music. Used by Stephen Joseph as the main item of a course at Burton Manor, The Wirral, 1961

Synopsis: The White King declares war on the Blacks, but is opposed by his own Bishops. The Black Queen rallies the Black forces against him, the Black King being effete. The Whites win the war; the White King then imposes his tyranny on White and Black alike. He is brought low by his own pride.

as item in Theatre-in-Round Festival organised by Eastleigh Schools' Drama Association

1961

Wyvern School Drama Club Eastleigh

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verse play with seasonal theme

One Act

8

4

Hostesses - 7F

Notes: A court-room drama (aka Perry Mason) - with mythological references

Synopsis: Sarah Spring is accused of murdering old Mr Winter; the Prosecuting Counsel, Pluto Bitters comes up against Mr Phoebus, Sarah Spring's Defence lawyer. Bitters plays dirty - and there is an Underground scene where Phoebus is abducted and tempted by Hostesses (kinds of siren) to stay underground forever and not return to finish off his defence of Sarah Spring. Bitters is defeated and Spring (with Phoebus's help) wins the day

Rostrum Theatre, Southampton

1957

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Play - (prose)

One Act

2

1

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Notes: Actors on stage all time - seated to start and when off-scene; enter action by standing up.

Synopsis: Diana and Jack (a young artist) have been living together for three years. Now she wants to leave, planning to return to her husband, Michael, whom she left for Jack after only eighteen months. Jack does not want Diana to go. He forces a kiss on her just as Michael walks in to reclaim both his house and his wife. Michael is a mathematician and precisely certain that Diana is waiting to start living with him again. She objects strongly and won't admit she was about to leave Jack, certainly not that she was going to seek out her husband again. She refuses to go with Michael. He leaves, convinced she will soon follow him. Jack meanwhile, watching the altercation between man and wife, guesses he's not part of the equation any more and walks out, leaving Diana on her own, and the audience guessing who was pulling what strings during this triangular battle.

Wyvern School Drama Club

1962

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Published privately - scripts available

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verse play

One Act

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7

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Notes: Play taken to Germany as part of school tour. Play has reminiscences of, and is a kind of response to, Golding's Lord of the Flies.

Synopsis: After shipwreck, only five survivors on volcanic island, all female, plus two young children (also female) found on island, survivors of volcanic eruption only a few years previously. The Captain's Wife is lost in herself and the burden for survival falls on Norah, wife of the trip's organiser. Three teenage girls make her life difficult; the girls bully the younger children and bicker badly amongst themselves. They are deeply bored. The volcano (unexpectedly) begins to erupt again and all on the island have their own crises to face. Tragedy brings the survivors to their senses.

Tour of Dorset and other counties

1974

Word And Action (Dorset) - Wanda Theatre

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Full length play in verse and prose

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Notes: 4th in sequence of plays Strugnell's World

Synopsis: Quest (Strugnell) banished from the area of the City, enters a Wilderness, a kind of nightmarish rehash of his life so far. Meets figures from The Monster, exiles from the Mountain (with the death of the Monster, those societies that depended on his presence have disintegrated) and witnesses a dysfunctional world with deep tragedies of its own. Quest falls to pieces and is replaced by Flute - the friend left for dead on the mountain. What the entire sequence is really about comes into question, as Flute meets Mary and helps to perform a rain ritual in a land that has become like a desert.

Wyvern School Drama Group

1961

Wyvern School Drama Group / Word And Action (Dorset) - Wanda Theatre

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Full-length verse play

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6

3

doubling

Notes: Play set in timeless past but with relevant contemporary theme.

Synopsis: Ploths and Delts - two desert tribes. Ploths ruled by lazy King Dolphin, but long subjected to the more war-like Delts. A mysterious woman turns up close to the Ploths' camp. The Delts arrive to demand her return. Dolphin realises the woman is special in some way, refuses to return her. The woman is made to reveal the presence of oil in the desert. The Delts are attacked; oil has proved a powerful weapon of war to the Ploths. However no gratitude is shown to the woman and she is thrown out into the desert. The remnants of the Delts find her, and there is a promise of future bloodshed.

Wimborne, Dorset

2000

Wanda Theatre

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