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A Piece of my Mind
3 Male, 2 Female
Inspired by Nichol’s own experience of writer’s block, this is the story of Ted Forrest, a disillusioned playwright, who retires to the country to write an autobiographical novel. Still unable…
A Place at the Table
2 Male, 2 Female
Novice TV script editor Sarah spots rising talented Adam and offers him a stunning proposal that could not only make his reputation, her career, it might even make history. First premiered at the…
A Prayer for Wings
3 Male, 2 Female
This is set in South Wales where Rita and her Mam, disabled by multiple sclerosis, live an existence of bleak interdependence It won Sean Mathias a ‘Fringe First Award’ at the Edinburgh Festival, 1985…
A Ringing of Bells
4 Male, 2 Female
As the Millennium bells peal the New Year, Adam and Eve arrive at a small village hotel asking for directions Their discovery that they’ve come to Elstow, the birthplace of John Bunyan, author of…
A Russian in the Woods
7 Male, 1 Female
Amongst the ruins of post-war Berlin, a young soldier is sent for a weekend to guard a deserted British army office In the corrosive atmosphere of Cold War power struggles, he innocently finds himself…
A Scent of Flowers
7 Male, 2 Female
“When we first come upon Zoe, there is a strange ambiance about her She watches while a coffin is brought in by two comic and appealing young cockney assistants to Scrivens, the most dignified and…
A Sense of Detachment & The End of Me Old Cigar & Jill and Jack & A Place Calling Itself Rome
Osborne here delivers his trademark eloquence, rage and devastating wit A Sense of Detachment satirises our heartless, profiteering society, while defending timeless human values The End of Me Old Cigar…
A Skull in Connemara
3 Male, 1 Female
For one week each autumn, Mick Dowd is hired to disinter the bones in certain sections of his local cemetery, to make way for new arrivals As the time approaches for him to dig up those of his own late…
