What is going on in hollywood these days? Accepted, this part of the USA is generally seen as shallow, money hungry, get all you can and step on the little guy and ‘Oh, but don’t forget to laugh at the latest Adam Sandler film. This time he’ll take the mick out of a different minority to the last film’.

Remakes, reboots and sequels. It’s a sad sign of the growing recession that original talent, such as aspiring screenwriters, playwrights and novelists are being pushed out of the…

Dawn of the Dave - on Amazon for only 99p - takes a dark, comedic look at a post-apocalyptic suburban world through the eyes of 35yr old sandal-wearing, carpet shop Assistant Manager Dave Driscoll, married to school teacher Sally, six months pregnant with their first child. The story centres on the myriad of human relationships that we become entangled in as we stagger into the real world in our late teens to twenties. We come to know people that we can happily say goodbye to at the end of…

Dear National Theatre Wales members,

I've been a NTW member for a few months now and I've finally managed to get my first novel 'Dawn of the Dave' up onto Amazon.co.uk for sale at 99p as an e-book.

If you liked my previous blog posts of short plays and 100 word scenes - Check out The Rapturous Farewell, The Wooden Spoon, Discovery, The Lovers, The Perfect Parents - or if you just like having a laugh, then please buy my book today and spend some quality leisure time escaping…

Dear National Theatre Wales members,

I've been a NTW member for a few months now and I've finally managed to get my first novel 'Dawn of the Dave' up onto Amazon.co.uk for sale at 99p as an e-book.

If you liked my previous blog posts of short plays and 100 word scenes - Check out The Rapturous Farewell, The Wooden Spoon, Discovery, The Lovers, The Perfect Parents - or if you just like having a laugh, then please buy my book today and spend some quality leisure time escaping…

The Perfect Parents

Set: Middle class house – Boy arrives home from school – approaches his father nervously

Dad: Hallo Sebastian! Have a good day today?

Seb: I suppose so...um, dad?

Dad: Yes?

Seb: No stupid tricks tonight, please?

Dad: What? On your birthday? Of course not! Look, mum’s having a…

The Lovers

Setting: Living room, couple on sofa.

John: Are you tired?

Sally: Is that a metaphor?

John: Yeah.

Sally: Oh, well in that case, no, I’m not.

John: But I’m really tired.

Sally: And I’m really not.

John: You haven’t been tired in weeks. What’s up?

Sally: If you must know...I’m pregnant. See what tiredness does for you?

John: How long have you known?

Sally: Since yesterday. This will need…

Free Men

Setting: Broken gates of concentration camp. Russian soldier greets small group of male prisoners.

Russian: I liberate you...!

Man: Liberate yourself!

Russian: Sorry?

Man: Good. A word we expect to hear a lot of in the days to come.

Russian: I...I liberate...

Man: We are free men. You cannot liberate us.

Russian: But you are prisoners.

Man: A house may have walls, doors, gates but I am still a free man…

Discovery

Setting: bomb site, rubble, two German soldiers, a man’s corpse.

Hans: Any idea who it is?

Karl: Yes.

Hans: Well?!

Karl: Ok, it’s him. Hitler.

Hans: Dead? Oh...thank Christ for that!

Karl: How so?

Hans: Oh, come on Karl. You know how I feel about you. You feel the same.

Karl: We’d get shot for that!

Hans: Not anymore. He’s dead.

Karl: (laughs) you’re right. He is! (they both…

The Wooden Spoon

Setting:

A room, door to stage left – in middle of room is a table and two chairs with arms, one placed either side of the table, facing the audience – on one chair is the slumbering Sally, sat awkwardly due to the shape of the chair – on the table is a glass/crystal vase containing a number of wooden spoons with numbers painted on their bowls – at Sally’s feet is a washing up bowl and a towel is draped across her…

The Rapturous Farewell

Scene: A suburban living room. Sofa, two armchairs, drinks cabinet, French windows at centre back, table with buffet laid out. On the wall, next to the windows, is hung an array of replica flintlock pistols and swords.  

Lights go up, revealing a woman dressed in black in one of the armchairs, crying quietly into a handkerchief. As lights finish rising, she stands up, walks over to the French windows and…