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He wears a mask - he pretends to be an idling, strolling observer of others: an amused spectator. He watches people on the street, in shops, in cafes:...
An epic drama set in the early seventeenth century as Russia descends into civil war. "Howard Colyer's extremely effective and pared-down style consta...
A play about marriage, lust, adultery, corruption and deceit - all aided by the Mandrake Infusion. It is Machiavelli's greatest sex farce, and a landm...
Gogol's greatest play - indeed one of the best comedies ever written - freely adapted for studio productions....
The war is over and the hero returns. But what good is a hero without a war? What else does he know but warfare? And his city has managed without him....
The Civil War is drawing to an end in Russia. The White Army is disintegrating and a wave of refugees is about to descend on Turkey, and then spread a...
Franz Kafka's Letter to my Father adapted for the stage. It opened at the Brockley Jack Theatre in London on Tuesday, 17 January, 2012. 'The tortured ...
Troy has fallen. The city has been destroyed and its people slaughtered. The few survivors are prisoners of the Greek Army which is waiting to sail ba...
A young woman attempts suicide - but she's found before the poison can kill her. A journalist becomes interested in her life, then a novelist - storie...
He wants to get married; and he doesn't want to get married - he doesn't know what to do. But he has a friend who knows what's best for everyone. Marr...
Gogol's short story, Diary of a Madman, adapted for the stage. ""This is a play about an individual's descent into madness, brought to life by a brill...
Late in the evening on 11 March, 1938, a man sits in a Jewish bar in Vienna as the German army invades Austria. The other guests flee, as does the own...
A diary in haiku - life at a rate of seventeen syllables a day....
Gogol's story of a clerk in St. Petersburg adapted for the stage, and first performed at the Brockley Jack Studio Theatre in London on 19 January, 201...
Gregory Gun is devoted to his job and he is made redundant. And then he struggles. But he tries to cope and he fights against his own character; but f...
Dennis Oldshaw finally managed to escape his office job and devote himself to painting, yet now he fears for his life; and he reflects about his past,...
What is an individual but a collection of memories on legs? Take away the memories and what's left? Legs. And even they aren't working well any more. ...
The 36 stories in this collection were written or re-written in London between 2000 and 2006. Most are shorter than a page. The longest is seven pages...
The stories in this collection were written in London between 1993 and 2000. Mostly they are about solitary people struggling to be different....
Thirteen seasons in three lines, 2003/4 - 2015/16, short and sharp match reports from the Den....
You Take The 321, Again, Without Reluctance and Without Relief: Three dramatic monologues about strange and enigmatic lives staged together at the Jac...
Somebody must have maligned Joseph K. because he was arrested one morning without having done anything wrong. Franz Kafka's novel translated and adapt...
The fifty stories in this collection are about Londoners - about the curiosity of life in the city. It contains the best stories from three earlier bo...
A diary in haiku - three short lines per day - an autobiography in fragments....
This novel is about an Englishman who kills someone ambiguously. He may, or may not, have intended to do so. But he is not prosecuted by the police. T...
A one act play with four characters. An interrogation and a ghost story. A man's wife has vanished. He can't remember when or why; nor can he remember...
There was a prowler in the garden - so Kevin Boyd had to respond. A one act play with one character in one room....
Two related one act plays with one character each - Brocklehurst and Sidmouth - nephew and uncle - two marooned men....