Tent Of Xerxes is a new production company I am involved in - we are based in Swansea - Our first project is producing season of three, hard-hitting one-person & two-person plays, at Swansea Grand Theatre's Arts Wing, that explore the physical and psychological trauma of war.

The plays are

The Body of an American by Dan O'Brien. Winner of the Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Political Drama 2013.

Directed by Michael Kelligan

Two things happened when Canadian photographer Paul Watson took the photo of a dead American marine being dragged through the streets of Mogadishu in 1993 -1) It won Watson the Pulitzer Prize for photography, and 2) It led to the withdrawl of US troops from the Horn of Africa. A tale of personal integrity and professional responsibility, The Body of an American raises difficult questions about the role of a free press, and how the story can become a powerful weapon of propaganda in the hands of organisations like Al-Qaeda and Islamic State.


Grounded by George Brant.

Winner The Smith Prize 2012, Edinburgh Fringe First Award 2013, Best Production 2013 Off-West End Theatre Award..

Modern war. War as video game. War as played by women. War without the personal consequences, until, that is, an unexpected pregnancy ends a nameless fighter ace's career in the sky. Reassigned to operate military drones from a windowless trailer outside Las Vegas, she hunts terrorists by day and returns to her family each night. As the pressure to track a high-profile target mounts, the boundaries begin to blur between the desert in which she lives and the one she patrols half a world away.

Dalton Trumbo's "Johnny Got His Gun" adapted for the stage by Bradley Rand Smith

American soldier, Joe Bonham, a casualty of World War 1, awakens in hospital, having lost his arms, legs, and face, and unable to speak, in his mind he remembers his old life, with his family and friends; and reflects upon the myths and realities of a war which has put him in this position.