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November 2024
Werrington Village Players presented Rude Awakenings at Werrington Village Hall on 15th & 16th November.
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November 2024
Rude Awakenings was given a second script-in-hand reading by the Beechworth Theatre Company on 2nd November.
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September 2024
My short but not-so-sweet story, Losers, was read by Edmund Dehn at AWL extra on Friday 27th September.
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September 2024
From This Day Forward, which had its premiere at the OSO Barnes in July 2023, has now been published by Stagescripts.
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August 2024
Were You Anyone Before Dad's Army? premiered at the Minghella Theatre, Newport, IoW, from 2nd to 4th August.
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July 2024
Angles Theatre performed my one-act play, Baggage (His & Hers), at The Princess Theatre, Hunstanton on 19th July.
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July 2024
My short play, Sorry / Je m'excuse was given a Zoom performance at AWLextra on 12th July.
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June 2024
Double Bubble and Rude Awakenings were performed by the Athenaeum Limelight Players on 28th and 29th June.
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June 2024
My short story, Non-Paternity Event, was read by Edmund Dehn at AWL extra on Friday 14th June.
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May 2024
Rude Awakenings was performed by the Centralian Players, Abbots Langley, from 16th to 18th May.
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April 2024
Rude Awakenings was performed by Mica Mountain High School, Tucson, Arizona, USA on 11th and 13th April.
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March 2024
Rude Awakenings was performed by The Charing Guild of Players in an evening of one-act plays, 22nd to 24th March.
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March 2024
Rude Awakenings was presented at Staveley Roundhouse, Staveley near Kendal, 6th to 8th March.
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February 2024
Rude Awakenings was performed by Pontfaen YFC at Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, Powys on 6th February.
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January 2024
The script of Were You Anyone Before, Private Godfrey?, my play about Arnold Ridley, was released in January.
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December 2023
Match & Mix was performed script-in-hand at the Actors & Writers London's winter competition on 18th December.
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December 2023
Five of my one-act plays were published by Stagescripts in Lots of Laughter (& one or two tears) in December 2023.
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December 2023
Sorry / Je m'excuse was one of the items in the NLA All Star Night at The Islington Jazz Cafe on 11th December.
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November 2023
Rude Awakenings was performed by the Sadleir Drama Club, Ware, from 28th November to 1st December.
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October 2023
Rude Awakenings was performed by the Joondalup Encore Theatre Society, WA on 27th, 28th & 29 October.
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October 2023
The Romantics was performed as an item in this year's Salisbury Fringe 'Monologue Mash' on 8th October.
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October 2023
My short story, Miscasting, was published in New Critque, the journal of critical and creative writing, on 2nd October.
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October 2023
Rude Awakenings was given two performances by Quinton Public Schools, Quinton, Oklahoma, in October 2023.
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September 2023
An Account of Six Poisonings was published online in The Chamber Magazine on 3rd September.
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July 2023
From This Day Forward, my new full-length play, was performed at the OSO Arts Centre from 19th to 23rd July.
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July 2023
My flash fiction piece, The Romantics, has been published in Burningword Literary Journal Issue 107, July 2023.
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June 2023
Rude Awakenings was read script-in-hand by the Beechworth Theatre Company, Victoria, Australia, on 21st June.
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June 2023
Rude Awakenings was performed by the Clarendon Players in Royal Wootton Bassett, 15th -17th June.
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May 2023
A revised edition of Arnold Ridley's classic comedy-thriller, The Ghost Train, has been published by Samuel French.
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April 2023
The Mistress Bedroom was performed by Talisman Fringe at the Holiday Inn, Kenilworth, on 4th April.
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March 2023
My Brother's Keeper was given a staged reading at the NLA New Writing Showcase at the Park Theatre on 31st March.
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March 2023
As I Draw Near You had a rehearsed reading via Zoom at the Player-Playwrights Spring Competition on 20th March.
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March 2023
Rude Awakenings was performed by the Pateley Bridge Dramatic Society, Yorkshire, on 8th and 9th March.
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March 2023
A revised edition of my one-act romantic comedy Baggage (His & Hers) (1M + 2F) was published in March.
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February 2023
Rude Awakenings was one of the plays performed by the Grayshott Stagers on 17th & 18th February.
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February 2023
Pillow Talk was one of eleven monologues performed at Actors & Writers London, on 6th February.
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January 2023
Gardening Leave & Titus Returns, both performed at The White Bear in June, have been published by Stagescripts.
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December 2022
Round & About the Rufus Stone was given a script-in-hand performance at Actors & Writers London on 19th December.
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December 2022
The new version of Double Bubble, my one-act comedy, was published by Stagescripts in early December.
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November 2022
Rude Awakenings was one of three comedies performed by Charade Drama, Westbury-on-Trym, on 17th-19th November.
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October 2022
Goodbye Miss Morocco, a non-fiction story, was re-published in Impspired Volume Nine in October.
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October 2022
Three Into Two was one of six short plays given script-in-hand performances at the Salisbury Fringe, on 1st October.
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September 2022
Silencer was one of thirty 60-second plays staged by WRiTEON, Cambridge, on 11th September.
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August 2022
From This Day Forward, was given a first read-through with a cast from Rare Fortune Productions on 16th August.
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June 2022
Misconnections, a trio of short plays, was staged by Pack A Punch Players at The White Bear Theatre 7th-11th June.
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June 2022
Not a Friend of the Family was recorded as an audio play by Talisman Theatre and went live on 5th June.
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June 2022
Goodbye Miss Morocco, a creative nonfiction piece, was published online in Impspired Issue 17 on 1st June.
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May 2022
Three-Into-Two (Won't Go) was given a semi-staged reading at AWL's Showcase at the Polish Centre, on 16th May.
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March 2022
My short story, Losers, was read by Edmund Dehn as part of the AWLextra Zoom programme on 29th March.
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March 2022
Rude Awakenings was perfomed by Wells Little Theatre in a programme of two one-act plays, 9th-12th March.
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February 2022
A table-reading of an adaptation of The Ghost Train was recorded with Rare Fortune Productions on 23rd February.
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February 2022
Moose-head, doe-eyes, shrew & Alternative Navigations were published in Impspired Volume Seven on 23rd February.
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February 2022
Rude Awakenings was staged by the Fort Stockton Community Theatre, West Texas, on 17th February.
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February 2022
I read the history of Amandus and Amanda from Tristram Shandy at the AWLextra Zoom programme on 15th February.
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February 2022
Listen to Your Heart was published on 8th February in the Winter 2022 edition of The Avalon Literary Review.
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November 2021
Rude Awakenings was performed by Incognito Theatre in It's Complicated 17th - 20th November.
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November 2021
Titus Returns, my new one-act play, was performed as a semi-staged reading at AWL, West London, on 7th November.
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October 2021
As I Draw Near You was one of six pieces performed in 'Short Cuts' at the Salisbury Fringe on 16th October.
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October 2021
My nonfiction piece, Round Pond, was published in Burningword 100 on 5th October.
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October 2021
Moose-head, doe-eyes, shrew and Alternative Navigations were published in Impspired Issue 13 on 1st October.
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September 2021
My short story, Walking Shadows, was published in Impspired magazine Volume Six on 23rd September.
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July 2021
A newly-adapted version of Baggage was performed at the AWL Zoom meeting on Monday 26th July.
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June 2021
Friendly Bombs was one of seven short plays presented by Rare Fortune Productions at the OSO, Barnes, 4th-6th June.
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June 2021
My ghost story, Walking Shadows, was published in the online edition of Impspired Issue 11 on 1st June.
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May 2021
The Mistress Bedroom and Casting About formed part of the Funtington Players Zoom Evening on 13th May.
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May 2021
Cassiopeia's Hair was published in the print edition of Impspired magazine Volume Five on 12th May.
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April 2021
My short fiction piece, Cassiopeia's Hair, was re-published online in Impspired Issue 10 on 1st April.
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March 2021
Silencer, my 500-word flash fiction piece, was published in Fat Cat Magazine Issue Five on 29th March.
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March 2021
Baggage was given two performances as a live radio play at The Barn Theatre Molesey on 12th & 14th March.
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February 2021
Besties in Lockdown was performed by The Mitre Players in Virtually Acting #2 on 18th & 21st February.
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February 2021
My flash fiction piece, Abide with Me, was published in the Winter 2021 edition of The Avalon Literary Review.
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January 2021
Redress, a short comedy, was given a script-in-hand reading at the AWL Zoom meeting on 11th January.
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December 2020
Travels With A Dutchman, my piece of narrative nonfiction, was published in Post Road 37 on 15th December.
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November 2020
Grounded was part of the Mitre Players' programme of Zoom plays, Virtually Acting, on 22nd & 24th November.
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November 2020
An Accounf of Six Poisonings, adapted as a monologue, was performed at the AWL Zoom meeting on 16th November.
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November 2020
My short story, Compliance, was published by Oxford-based publisher Fairlight Books on 12th November.
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October 2020
As I Draw Near You, a short play written for Zoom, was read at the AWL Zoom meeting on 19th October.
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October 2020
It Isn't You, was filmed for the Short Cuts programme at the Salisbury Fringe and was live-streamed on 4th October.
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September 2020
In Plain Sight was included in Rare Fortunes Productions' Brief Encounters at the OSO on 25th & 26th September.
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September 2020
Not a Friend of the Family was performed by the Funtington Players at their Zoom Cafe Evening on 17th September.
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September 2020
Love Screens, the film of three of my short plays, was live-streamed by Open Ealing on 11th September.
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August 2020
My piece of short fiction, Trees of Nature, was published by the digital publisher, Bandit Fiction, in August 2020.
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August 2020
Abide With Me, a short play adapted for Zoom, was performed at the AWL Zoom meeting on 10th August.
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July 2020
An adapted version of my monologue, Doing What Comes Naturally, was read at the AWL Zoom Meeting on 27th July.
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July 2020
My new one-act play, Four Sides of a Triangle, was performed at the AWL Zoom Meeting on 6th July.
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June 2020
Unarmed Combat, my 'flash' memoir, was read by David Hampshire at the AWL Zoom Meeting on 29th June.
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June 2020
My short story, Unbuttoned, was published in Typishly, the American online literary magazine, in June 2020.
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June 2020
Three short 'Zoom plays', Besties in Lockdown, Grounded and Six O'clock have been published by Smith Scripts.
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June 2020
The Romantics, a 300-word monologue, was given its first reading at the AWL Meeting on 8th June.
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June 2020
Six O'clock, a Zoom-adapted 'lockdown' play, was given a performance at the AWL Meeting on 1st June.
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June 2020
Sister of the More Famous ..., a one-minute monologue, was performed at the AWL Meeting on 1st June.
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May 2020
My Zoom monologue, Besties in Lockdown, was given another performance at WRiTE-ON, Cambridge, on 28th May.
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May 2020
Grounded, a comic sketch specially-written for Zoom, was performed during the AWL Meeting on 25th May.
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May 2020
My Zoom monologue, Besties in Lockdown, was performed by Sophie Morris-Sheppard at the AWL Meeting on 18th May.
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March 2020
Rude Awakenings was performed by the Lucilla Dramatic Society, Crosby, Liverpool on 13th & 14th March.
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March 2020
My new short play, It Isn't You, was performed as a rehearsed reading at the AWL Showcase on 9th March.
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February 2020
Made For Each Other was performed in Love Shots II at the Union Theatre, Southwark on 16th & 17th February.
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January 2020
I read two flash fiction pieces, Unarmed Combat and Round Pond, at Flash in Hand, Bristol, on 26th November.
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January 2020
My 12-minute play, Friendly Bombs, was published by Lazy Bee Scripts and is now available to be licensed.
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December 2019
My play,Titus Returns, was performed script-in-hand by NLA at the Chapel Playhouse on 11th December.
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December 2020
My short play, The Mistress Bedroom, was performed by the Pyrmont Players, Pyrmont, Australia, on 8th December.
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November 2019
Smith Scripts has published three more of my short plays: Heaven & Hell Night, Room Service and Turnabout.
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November 2019
I read my new flash fiction piece, Listen To Your Heart, at Flash in Hand, Bristol's flash fiction event, on 26th November.
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November 2019
My story, The Reigning Miss Morocco, was published in the Arachne Press anthology, Departures, on 21st November.
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November 2019
I read my short story, An Account of Six Poisonings, at Story Friday, Burdhall's Yard, Bath, on 8th November.
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November 2019
A new version of my short play, Turnabout, was included in the programme performed at AWL on 4th November.
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October 2019
Rude Awakenings was performed by the Broughton Players at Broughton Village Hall on 11th & 12th October.
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October 2019
My 20-minute play, Turnaround, had a semi-staged reading by NLA at Chapel Playhouse, King's Cross, on 5th October.
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August 2019
I read my flash fiction piece, Virtually Identical, at Talking Tales #24, LeftBank, Bristol on 20th August.
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July 2019
Green Room Blues was performed in Hammersmith, as part of the AWL summer competition on 14th July.
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July 2019
My short story, Losers, was published in The Magnolia Review - Volume 5, Issue 2, July 2019.
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July 2019
Rude Awakenings was performed by the Wellingborough U3A Amateur Dramatic Group on 13th July.
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June 2019
Rude Awakenings was performed by the Dunoon Players, in Dunoon, Argyll and Bute, on 28th & 29th June.
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June 2019
I gave two talks based on my book, Godfrey's Ghost, on the P&O Ventura cruise to the Norwegian fjords, 16-23 June.
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June 2019
Heaven & Hell Night was performed script-in-hand at North London Actors' New Writing Showcase on 11th June.
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May 2019
I read my flash fiction piece, Abide With Me, at Novel Nights, at The Square Club, Clifton, Bristol on 29th May.
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May 2019
I read my flash fiction piece, XDR, at Flash in Hand, Bristol's first open mic flash fiction event, at Alchemy 198 on 13th May.
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May 2019
Rude Awakenings was performed by the Newport Drama Group, Tipperary, Ireland, on 3rd & 4th May.
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April 2019
Casting About was included in NLA's Shakespeare's birthday celebrations at the Courtyard Theatre on 23rd April.
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April 2019
The British American Theatrical Society, Antwerp, performed Rude Awakenings from 29th March to 7th April.
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March 2019
I read my story Moose-Head, Doe-Eyes, Shrew at Story Friday 'Invitation' at Burdhall's Yard, Bath, on 22nd March.
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March 2019
My non-fiction piece, The Old Man and the Bath, has been published in The Antigonish Review issue 195.
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March 2019
My (very) short post-colonial story, Uhuru, was published on the 50-Word Stories website on 14th March.
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March 2019
I was delighted to be invited to Bulgaria as the guest writer at a session of the Sofia Writing Challenge on 8th March.
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February 2019
The Trees of Nature was one of six plays performed at the Canal Cafe Theatre, Little Venice, on 15th & 16th February.
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February 2019
My piece of creative nonfiction, At Dr Johnson's House, has been published in OPEN: Journal of Arts & Letters.
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February 2019
My flash fiction piece, A Story in the Sand, has been published in the February issue of Foliate Oak Literary Magazine.
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January 2019
Two pieces of mine were published in the Burningword Literary Journal, Issue 89, on 5th January.
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November 2018
I read my short story A Sweet Refrain at Story Friday 'Feast' at Burdhall's Yard, Bath, on 30th November.
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November 2018
Three of my scripts Gardening Leave, Bee All, End All and Swinging are now available through Smith Scripts.
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November 2018
Double Bubble was one of three pieces performed script-in-hand at AWL Hammersmith on 5th November.
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November 2018
Holding on, Letting go was one of three pieces performed script-in-hand at AWL Hammersmith on 5th November.
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November 2018
Buster in Paradise was one of three pieces performed script-in-hand at AWL Hammersmith on 5th November.
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October 2018
My talk on Godfrey's Ghost was given at a literary luncheon at the RAC Club, Woodcote Park, Surrey, on 16th October.
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October 2018
My collection of six short 10- to 15-minute comedies, Six of One, has been published by Stagescripts.
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October 2018
My short comedies, Six of One, were given a semi-staged rehearsed reading at the CAA, Covent Garden, on 3rd October.
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September 2018
My play, In Plain Sight, was performed at the North London Actors New Writing Showcase on 25th September.
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September 2018
I read my story Doing What Comes Naturally for Story Friday 'Tomorrow' at Burdhall's Yard, Bath, on 21st September.
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September 2018
The script of my one-act ensemble piece, Made For Each Other, is now available through the Stagescripts website.
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August 2018
A new version of my short story Moose-head, Doe-eyes, Shrew was published in Sleet Magazine Summer 2018.
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July & August 2018
Rude Awakenings was included in the St Mary's Theatre Club Summer Production, Isles of Scilly, in July & August 2018.