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Polka Theatre, London >>>

2004

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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

Play for 12-16 year olds

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Ensemble cast with at least F3, M2; but can incorporate a chorus of many more

Notes: play won the Arts Council Children's Award in 2004

Synopsis: Chantaye, Trixie and Gary live on the same terraced street in Liverpool, there's not much to do but hang around the phone box and kick a ball about. And then another kid moves in, only he doesn't come out to play, he just sits at his window, a silent onlooker with a quiff. If you pass by his house you can hear music - scratchy old music - rock 'n' roll. Now the adults are beginning to warn the kids away - there's talk about this 'Mad Elvis' and his Mum and it's just as well he doesn't come out, because whatever he's got, they say it's catching. But Chantaye wouldn't be told, she decides to go against her friends and the collective wisdom of the Street to befriend the boy and find out the truth about his condition and his music.

national schools tour

2005

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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

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Synopsis: Three disparate people find themselves stranded on a deserted platform of an underground station. Vijay - caught in an eternal moment of remembering a crime he'd sooner forget. Maya - slowly descending into a world of chaos, her memory crumbling away piece by jigsaw piece and Dino whose fractured psyche is soothed only by the drugs he takes and thoughts of escape. They are ministered to By Silas, the lone kiosk attendant, self styled healer and purveyor of Kit Kats and crisps. Together on platform 2b these four minds are compelled to confront the devastating nature of Alzheimer's disease, the agony that is post traumatic stress and just what it is that could drive someone to kill. . .

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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

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Notes: runner up in the London Writers' Competition 2003

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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

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Notes: shortlisted for the Verity Bargate Award 2004

Synopsis: A young boy's devotion to the Martial Arts Movie Hero, Jackie Chan is put to the test when the boy's brother is involved in a fatal accident. Joe learns that when people fall from tall buildings they invariably don't get up. Joe works in the family chippy weekends and most evenings after school. He hates it, most of all he hates the customers, slamming their change on the stainless steel counter. During the Easter break Joe sneaks off to the travelling fair that's arrived on the patch of waste ground nearby. He has become fixated with an action hero made flesh - Mikey Riley and His Amazing Wall Of Death, the last such attraction of this type found touring in the UK. Mikey shares his trailer with his younger half-sister Taali. She beguiles Joe with stories of Showmen and wonderful pictures - her people were fairground artists. There is just one thing Joe wants above all else, one ride, one in the eye for the cruel jibes at school about his brother's fall, one for Taali so she can paint him as an action hero, at last - one answer to the question he's been asking Mikey Riley at every opportunity, "What keeps you from falling off?" Just once - Joey wants to ride The Wall Of Death.