Word on the street is...
Marilyn Warbis
Writer, poetess
Vince Sutton
Writer and actor
Judy Hardie
Actress
Carly Barnes
Actress
Beverley Griffiths
Peter Cummings
Writer and poet
Actress, writer
John McGee
Writer and actor
Word on the street is a collection of short plays and poetry done with a local twist. Written and (performed by Plymouth based writers and actors GROUP PL5
Browne House A wife so handsome and a husband so jealous he built a house in which to keep her - out in the wilds of Dartmoor. A wife so handsome and a husband so jealous - and a murder most gruesome. So runs the Dartmoor legend of the Browne house. But then one day on his way to explore it a modern-day walker is stopped in his tracks by a figure -come out of nowhere. Out of nowhere - our out of legend?
The Boat Trip A boat trip round the Sound - and back. Four people on board. Two in the dawn of life, two at its sunset. Round the Sound and back - and back? What price eternal youth?
Mayfly - Albert fancies being a mayfly. Rose fancies a dish-washer. Albert thinks living for just one day might be nice when it's spent non-stop love making. Rose thinks a mayfly who pulled its weight around the house might be nicer. Who gets which wish granted?
Cupcakes Union Street in its heyday. Two friends who were there in its -and their youth. Two friends - until now - for times and people change. Is the power of friendship enough to carry them through?
And what’s the point in baking cupcakes if you aren’t actually ever going to eat them? Find out the answers to both in CUPCAKES. Maybe.
Hoe Down Setting - the Hoe, September.
Six in the morning. Miles – one of the Street Scene team – stumbles across a figure asleep by the Mayflower steps. A party animal Bacardi Breezer out for a good time and out for the count? Turns out way more mysterious and more complicated than that - by some four hundred years' worth. And there's a life to be saved - or not. Does Miles interfere with the course of history. And, if so, in whose interest?