BABY COME BACK
TV drama/stage play
When daughter Katie brings boyfriend Lewis home, Mimi starts to believe that this could be the mixed race son she gave up for adoption 30 years ago – a loss she’s always mourned. The conviction builds until she is compelled to reveal her past, devastating everyone’s dreams. This is a play about identity and loss.
(Showcased in sell-out performances at the Leicester Square Theatre, July 2017)
Also written as a TV Drama script
D Minor
Stage Play
Elly’s grip on the real world slips as A-Levels and big decisions loom. She battles anxiety and depression as she re-thinks her relationships with her father, boyfriend and her friends on social media. Seen through physical theatre, soundscape and words, D Minor charts a young girl’s troubled mental health journey.
A PASSAGE FROM INDIA
Stage Play
Set in present-day Britain and India just after Independence, we see Stella, now a woman in her eighties, recounting her past secret life to her granddaughter.
It’s a story she is compelled to tell as she nears the end of her life. We go back to 1948 when young Stella, pregnant, happy and living in an ashram, finds herself expelled by the Guru along with her lover Raj. They are ‘rescued’ by Raj’s aunt but Stella discovers that they are both plotting behind her back – not to facilitate a marriage with Raj but rather the removal of Stella to Calcutta where Nalini will see her through the birth of her baby. What Happens to that
baby?
It’s a story about fate and choices; the desire for adventure and a woman’s lot.
THE MERSEY PRINCESS
Radio play
Seen through the eyes of a fifteen year-old girl facing the challenges of adolescence and parental expectations, this is a rite-of-passage story of love, loyalty and class reflecting the social and moral shifts of the turbulent 1960s on Merseyside.
THE FIRST CASUALTY
Stage play (A version of my screenplay The Last Assignment)
A brilliant and fearless television war correspondent finally learns how to love - but only after her cameraman – and lover - is killed on assignment with her in Iraq. She is forced to face up to her own feelings and explore the confusing nature of truth. (Rehearsed reading at Actors & Writers London)
FLAMES (OR BRIEF ENCOUNTER REVISITED)
Short play
Trevor has found a way of contacting the love of his life Celia - 50 years after their affair ended. When they meet again, in the company of his granddaughter and her carer, Trevor is as much in love as ever but Celia is bitter and resentful. Will the attraction the two young people feel for each other - along with Trevor’s deafness – keep the flame alive?
(Winner of Actors & Writers London Competition)
HOLY FOOL co-written with Rosalind Adler
Full length stage play
Written for acclaimed British actor Simon Russell Beale who has a passion for Shostakovich, Holy Fool is the story of the raging inner conflicts which tormented the Soviet composer and the terrifying outer circumstances of Stalin's Russia in which he battled to keep his humour and his humanity afloat - and his family and himself alive - while treading a knife-edge between deference and irony.
(Rehearsed reading with Simon Russell Beale, directed by Philip Franks)
THE BURDEN
Interior monologue adaptable for radio, stage or screen.
Set in 1960s London, Zofia, a Polish Jewish refugee, tells her story to her future daughter-in-law as they prepare for the wedding. Set against the evocative background of Covent Garden, Billingsgate and Carnaby Street, she reveals how she survived the Warsaw ghetto and the terrible secret of her son's real father.
(Winner of Actors & Writers London Competition)